Comments on: RIM wants to license BlackBerry. Good luck with that.

By: Theotis

Theotis — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:15:00 +0000

Who would leave Apple or Google for RIM?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:54:43 +0000

RIM need to recruit some Apple and Google engineers, bring along some guys from the playbook division. Keep thier hardware ahead or current with ios and google. Cut some of the blackberry lines like the pearl and curve. Update their os on current and legacy devices like Apple does. Rim is the Ford of the mobile industry, don’t sleep on them. I can easily see RIM making a comeback.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:48:11 +0000

They just need to use higher end specs on there phones and update thier smart phone is as often as the playbook. Its like RIM is stuck on stupid.

By: Fadi El-Eter

Fadi El-Eter — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:43:02 +0000

@Keith,

They’re late, very late for this move. In any case, open sourcing a buggy OS will not solve anything. But again, they’re 18 months late for this month.

By: Fadi El-Eter

Fadi El-Eter — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:40:41 +0000

RIM is now being used and abused in the stock market (going up 5% in a day, going down 2% in the next) on such news. RIM wants to license, RIM wants to sell, RIM is for sale, etc…

The fact of the matter is that the game for RIM was over about a year and a half ago. They chose to close their technology and they insisted on maintaining a high profit margin. Fatal mistake – coupled, of course, with ugly phones and a disastrous OS.

By: richardmgarrett

richardmgarrett — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:46:27 +0000

I hope you’re right because if RIM can compete, that would be a very good thing for consumers. I particularly like their concept of integrating a tablet and phone. Nevertheless, $2.1 billion in cash in today’s world while competing head-on against the likes of Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and Huawei isn’t a lot of cushion. The company has little margin for error.

By: David McCormack

David McCormack — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:27:42 +0000

Remember that the talk is of them licencing the platform or parts thereof. Taking the platform to mean just the device OS would be to apply a very narrow definition of the term. The platform surely also includes their cloud infrastructure which supports push email, BB Messenger, IPPP compressed tunneling technology, etc. This broader platform also includes the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) which provides not just access to corporate email and intranet resources, but also centralised, policy-based management of all BlackBerry smartphones in an organisation. All of this stuff embodies techniques that RIM have developed (perfected?) over the years – much of it patented – and this would presumably make it very valuable to other mobile players.

By: jbl

jbl — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:43:14 +0000

It is not just os issue. blackberry hardware is unreliable and has very short usable life. It is failure in all aspects.

By: respighifan

respighifan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:15:00 +0000

RIM will take a big ninth-inning swing with BB10 and the new OS – my guess it will establish a strong enough foothold outside N America to keep it more than viable as an alternative OS

By: respighifan

respighifan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:11:37 +0000

Anyone who draws the conclusion that RIM is another PALM cannot possibly know how to read a balance sheet – RIM has no debt, 70 million subscribers, enterprise integration solutions and is still growing outside N America – PALM had debts, no sign of growth in any market and poor presence in enterprise even before it came out with Palm Pre

For RIM the game is just starting