Should BlackBerry have gone Android? The answer is no - and these numbers show why

Should BlackBerry have gone Android? The answer is no - and these numbers show why
The contempo woes of BlackBerry accept resulted in the the anticipated suggestions that instead of ploughing advanced with its BlackBerry 10 operating system, it should accept taken its architecture chops and aegis knowhow and jumped on the Android bandwagon.
You can accomplish the aforementioned altercation about Nokia — afterwards all, wouldn't that abundant Lumia camera accept awash added phones on Android?
But how abounding Android buzz makers china smartphone shop accept in fact hit the big time with big sales, or bigger yet, big profits?
The Android bazaar is abundantly bedeviled by Samsung, which sells about seven times as abounding phones as the amount three amateur worldwide: LG. Also an Android buzz maker, LG awash alone 10 actor phones in Q1 2013 compared to Samsung's 70 actor (according to IDC, or 64 actor according to Gartner). Apple, of course, has the amount two slot, with some 38 actor handsets.
It's the aforementioned in Q2. IDC says Samsung alien 72 actor smartphones compared to 31 actor iPhones, but LG alien 12 actor smartphones — carefully followed by 11 actor smartphones from Lenovo and 10 actor from ZTE.
What about Sony, which has a able brand, able architecture abilities and affluence of assets to advantage for business its wholesale smartphones Android phones? Sony doesn't even accomplish it to the top 5 buzz brands for Q1, with 9.6 actor phones (from its own sales figures; Gartner and ABI Research had estimated numbers afterpiece to 8 million).
If that's all Nokia or BlackBerry could apprehend from jumping off their 'burning platforms' assimilate Android, it hardly seems worthwhile.
In the aforementioned Q1, with the operating systems some pundits say they should accept dumped, Gartner and IDC say BlackBerry alien 6.3 actor phones and awash 6.2 actor phones and Windows Buzz  Online Shopping Smartphones alien 7 actor and awash 5.9 actor (5.6 actor of those were Lumias). In Q2 2013, Nokia awash 7.4 actor Lumias and BlackBerry alien 6.8 actor units (according to their own figures; Gartner and IDC both appraisal absolute Windows Buzz sales at just over 7.4 million).