BlackBerry CEO says Android and Windows Phone are not mobile computing platforms

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has been a busy man with the launch of the BlackBerry 10 OS and the Z10 smartphone. But Heins hasn’t shied away from taking shots at rival platforms, whenever the opportunity arises. Computer World reports that in his keynote at the Australia launch of the BlackBerry Z10, Heins told the audience that the company considered but rejected the idea of building BlackBerry services for Android or Microsoft’s Windows Phone. “We really thought hard about it,” Heins said, but the company decided that Android or WP8 didn’t share his vision of a “mobile computing” future. Android and Windows Phone “are not mobile computing platforms,” he said, pointing out that users cannot do the same work on an Android or Windows Phone device that they do on any other computer.