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thetonestarr on 30 May 2012

In order of likeliness, I see:

-Google
-Microsoft
-Samsung

as being the greatest to expect a buyout here.

Though, the entire company selling all-out is also iffy. I see it as greatly possible that the company will be split and sold in parts. Some assets bought by one company, some assets bought by another.



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NiKKoM on 30 May 2012

I can actually hear joelcool7 crying...



 

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Millenium on 30 May 2012
superchunk said:
Millenium said:
Bummer, hope this doesn't affect my already lacklustre BB service.

Hope someone decent picks them up.

Really time to move one. You're missing a ton on iOS or Android, such a better experience and even Android offers real keyboards if you have to have that.



While WP7 and Android (A physical keyboard is indeed important to me) are interesting at this point they're still unnecesary as I'm not particularly fond of being busy on the on the phone which would likely happen.



Millenium on 30 May 2012

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Iveyboi on 30 May 2012

Lolz RIP RIM....impossible to compete with Apple & Google (Trillion combined market cap!!)



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MrBubbles on 30 May 2012

i always heard they had really good jobs....



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Adinnieken on 30 May 2012
superchunk said:
TadpoleJackson said:
Will probably get picked up by Apple, MS, or Google to continue their patent war.


This is actually a solid theory. I'd see Google trying to get them for billions while Apple/MS and the bigger conglomerate all go in together like they did for... I think it was Cisco patents.

You think Cisco, the largest, most profitable, network hardware manufacturer went out of business or sold off its patent portfolio? 

Try Nortel, which RIM was a party to as well.



green_sky on 30 May 2012

Went to Uni near the headquarters. During my first year there or so the stock was hitting 200+ but now it is not even 20 bucks. The issue was innovation and sticking to old paradigm of cellular business. Sad to see it go but Canada as a country is highly leveraged now and there are far bigger problems looming than just RIM going down.



superchunk on 30 May 2012
Adinnieken said:
superchunk said:
TadpoleJackson said:
Will probably get picked up by Apple, MS, or Google to continue their patent war.


This is actually a solid theory. I'd see Google trying to get them for billions while Apple/MS and the bigger conglomerate all go in together like they did for... I think it was Cisco patents.

You think Cisco, the largest, most profitable, network hardware manufacturer went out of business or sold off its patent portfolio? 

Try Nortel, which RIM was a party to as well.

I thought by adding the phrase "I think it was" would let people know I really wasn't sure at all, all I could remember was they bought some large cache of patents. But thanks for clearing it up.



Platinumeye on 30 May 2012

I initially was going to call this post misleading, but it really is a down right lie. Thorsten Heins (RIM's CEO) said they hired these banks at the end of Q4 period, the media interpreted this as J.P Morgan and RBC being hired yesterday. Could RIM be bought out? Sure, but what we are seeing here today is a long way from confirmation of a buy out.