They will. Carriers like Sprint and Verizon cater directly to small business and professional users. There'll be less handsets I'm sure but it'll be a niche for people like us.
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BlackBerry Receives Takeover Bid Worth $4.7 Billion or $9/Share
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They will. Carriers like Sprint and Verizon cater directly to small business and professional users. There'll be less handsets I'm sure but it'll be a niche for people like us.
I meant the touch screen party. Not the smartphone party. It's still sad to me however put.
For Blackberry......
turning the tables with this investors or another ones, they must make a "game changer" Either in hardware, software or both. Liberating the BB messenger to run in the iOS environment is a move, for me, to mantain a presence, a usage.
But I have the idea Blackberry got a stronghold in corporate world before Android and iOS come to maturity and wide usage. I can be wrong on this....Yet, Blackberry have to enhance their offers, put some disctintive feature or set of features if they want to mantain a presence in the business. From that, maybe they can regain a user base.
Long climb to the hill.....
turning the tables with this investors or another ones, they must make a "game changer" Either in hardware, software or both. Liberating the BB messenger to run in the iOS environment is a move, for me, to mantain a presence, a usage.
But I have the idea Blackberry got a stronghold in corporate world before Android and iOS come to maturity and wide usage. I can be wrong on this....Yet, Blackberry have to enhance their offers, put some disctintive feature or set of features if they want to mantain a presence in the business. From that, maybe they can regain a user base.
Long climb to the hill.....
Well, I'm not involved with the systems side, so I wouldn't know. I guess the IT guys looked at all the options and knew what they were doing. I personally would have preferred an iOS solution. Funny enough there is a growing developer community in my company that is solely iOS and Android oriented. No windows phone. I was in the testing community for some of the iOS BYOD apps which were container apps for mail and calendar. These worked fine.
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They'll offer Apple, Samsung et al the opportunity to buy the 'patents', prompting a bidding war.
Called it. I bet Prem was thrilled with the dump since Friday, since either he or the consortium as a whole probably scooped up a decent chunk. Now that they're on the road to privatization, I expect to see Thorsten and most of the C-suite executives get their marching papers, sans golden parachutes. Given that they papered over the failure of BB10 last quarter, there's definitely some legal standing to do.
Blackberry is probably going to exit the hardware game (in fact I'm going to predict that the Z30 is the last consumer handset released in the US) and stick to enterprise and software. With so much strong security and communication IP in their portfolio, I'd love to see them license BB10 to Samsung as an alternative business-geared OS for their handsets. They could get the virtualization machine certified and put the Play Store on it to eliminate the need to sideload and have a pretty robust OS out of box. I just hope to God that should this ever happen they get new design engineers, 'cause TouchWiz would only make the BB10 UI worse.
Blackberry is probably going to exit the hardware game (in fact I'm going to predict that the Z30 is the last consumer handset released in the US) and stick to enterprise and software. With so much strong security and communication IP in their portfolio, I'd love to see them license BB10 to Samsung as an alternative business-geared OS for their handsets. They could get the virtualization machine certified and put the Play Store on it to eliminate the need to sideload and have a pretty robust OS out of box. I just hope to God that should this ever happen they get new design engineers, 'cause TouchWiz would only make the BB10 UI worse.
A similar fate is awaiting Verizon Wireless, you know the one that's the most reliable carrier in the US.It is really sad to see a company that was once great at what they do and now has fallen.
It is really true when cook says, innovate or die.
Or like Cersei said, When you play the game of thrones you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Its a holding company. Its similar to Berkshire Hathaway run by Warren Buffet. Geico is one of Berkshire's primary companies. The insurance company is run separately from the other companies but helps with cash flow. From wikipedia: "Buffett has used the "float" provided by Berkshire Hathaway's insurance operations (paid premiums which are not held in reserves for reported claims and may be invested) to finance his investments."
BlackBerry's patents are, to my understanding, largely SEP's licensed under FRAND--not worth a hell of a lot for the litigiously minded.
How many companies ran in to trouble penetrating the smartphone space because of RIM's patents?
Yeah, none of them. Those things are not worth $2B+
Apple has $4.7 Billion in their couch cushions. My guess is if BB's patents were worth that, Apple would've snatched them up without a second thought.
BlackBerry is pathetic.
Typical over-priced, excessively price-gouged, backward Canadian product that no one really wants and that is irrelevant.
I am surprised that there are investors willing to acquire the company.
Within a year or two, or maybe sooner, BlackBerry would be forgotten.
Typical over-priced, excessively price-gouged, backward Canadian product that no one really wants and that is irrelevant.
I am surprised that there are investors willing to acquire the company.
Within a year or two, or maybe sooner, BlackBerry would be forgotten.
The Curve was/is very popular in developing countries. A lot more popular than the bold series. Just an FYI.
DAMNIT, RIM! Just install freaking Android OS in your Blackberries already! If you're desperate enough to sell your company, you're desperate enough to shake the whole company and start a change!
"BlackBerry has fallen on hard times recently,..." So, YOU GIVE THEM FOUR & A HALF BILLION DOLLARS?! Blackberry is dead. There is no "it will be successful again".
Patents... hmmm? Is this "crazy like a fox"....?
No... this is just crazy.
Patents... hmmm? Is this "crazy like a fox"....?
No... this is just crazy.
I think that, ironically, it was trying to remake themselves that destroyed RIM.
#1 goof: not making their new phones or tablets backward compatible.
For example, we spent years developing for enterprise apps with tens of thousands of BBs, and paying good money for BES's and support, but when RIM told everyone that legacy apps wouldn't work, that was it.
Microsoft made the same mistake with Windows CE and Phone.
As good as the replacements OSes might be, you just don't blow away your entire core user base like that.
#1 goof: not making their new phones or tablets backward compatible.
For example, we spent years developing for enterprise apps with tens of thousands of BBs, and paying good money for BES's and support, but when RIM told everyone that legacy apps wouldn't work, that was it.
Microsoft made the same mistake with Windows CE and Phone.
As good as the replacements OSes might be, you just don't blow away your entire core user base like that.