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After numerous delays, RIM finally came out with a modern operating system this year, the BlackBerry 10.
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With Android, which was developed at the same time that Apple was creating the iPhone, Mr. Rubin's mission was to create a modern operating system for smartphones that would allow powerful Internet applications and break the stranglehold of wireless carriers, which once dictated which applications could be installed on phones.
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The change to BlackBerry also brought the introduction of BB 10, a more advanced and modern operating system that aims to put the smartphone pioneer on an equal footing with the likes of iOS and Android, OSes that have robbed it of a good deal of market share with BlackBerry's efforts apparently focused elsewhere.
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Every modern PC and operating system retains the flaws of initial product designs that go way back to a time when compromises were needed because system resources were scarce.
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The operating system is based in Modern User Interface, a unified approach to desktop, tablet and mobile.
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Among so many other things, the operating system gave rise to the modern open source movement.
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