Will google buy RIM?

[nottyboi]

I was just thinking about this possibility... it looks like Oracle has Google snookered on the Android OS, which will result in a TON of royalty payments to Oracle if they stay on that path... RIM has the QNX OS and is already close to completing a project to enable Android apps to run on QNX through a layer.....is it possible Goog will just buy them (I estimate about 17B with a 70% premium) make QNX the new Android... and tell Oracle to eff off?
hmmmmmmm

 

[onthebottom]

I think not.... perhaps Nokia can buy RIM and they can go down together....

OTB

 

[nottyboi]

The bottom line is, Google will do something radical with Android, they cannot stick with an OS which is built using IP from another company. Whether they buy WEBOS from HP or RIM or someone else.. is just a matter of time.

 

[onthebottom]

The bottom line is, Google will do something radical with Android, they cannot stick with an OS which is built using IP from another company. Whether they buy WEBOS from HP or RIM or someone else.. is just a matter of time.

Or license Java from Oracle.... I think the last number ORCL floated was 2B.... a lot cheaper to pay that than any other option.

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[rafterman]

Ha ha ha when RIM goes bankrupt.

 

[nottyboi]

Or license Java from Oracle.... I think the last number ORCL floated was 2B.... a lot cheaper to pay that than any other option.

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No that 2b was a settlement of past sales.. Oracle wants a future cut of all android related revenues.

 

[nottyboi]

Ha ha ha when RIM goes bankrupt.

Do failures of major companies and thousands of job losses always cheer you up?

 

[rafterman]

Do failures of major companies and thousands of job losses always cheer you up?

Not at all. I was laughing at the cruel irony of this Company's decline. Who have called this outcome three years ago. They would have called you krazee!

 

[nottyboi]

Not at all. I was laughing at the cruel irony of this Company's decline. Who have called this outcome three years ago. They would have called you krazee!

I called it, it was pretty clear, they were too small...and yes people called me crazy...

 

[onthebottom]

No that 2b was a settlement of past sales.. Oracle wants a future cut of all android related revenues.

Yes but I think it will be massively cheaper to pay Oracle than to switch the #1 smartphone platform to a failing OS....

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[onthebottom]

I called it, it was pretty clear, they were too small...and yes people called me crazy...

It wasn't size but lack of a strategy beyond push email.... they road that horse too long...

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[rafterman]

I called it, it was pretty clear, they were too small...and yes people called me crazy...

And you cleaned up selling the stock short?

 

[nottyboi]

And you cleaned up selling the stock short?

Even if you know something is gonna happen, it is impossible to say WHEN... not easy to short the stock at all.

 

[nottyboi]

It wasn't size but lack of a strategy beyond push email.... they road that horse too long...

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No it was size, there is very little that Android can do that BB cannot....it is simply mass. Look at the Android team : LG, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony..etc etc.. massive, massive companies with deep and established distribution networks. Also the BB model is not good for wireless providers as they have to share the stream of revenue with RIM.

 

[Powershot]

Unless they are going to make security on their OS a higher priority, I don't see Google integrating RIM well. Would not be easy to do when OEM's are building all sorts of holes into their Android extensions (just this week the Samsung lock screen and HTC security holes making news).

 

[Cobster]

Doubt it, especially since they now own Motorola.

 

[nottyboi]

Doubt it, especially since they now own Motorola.

What does Motorola have to do with it? They have no OS...RIM could just transition the entire ecosystem to QNX... and call it Android Snowflake.. or whatever.. All the apps will run but will run better when natively ported.....then tell Oracle to eff off and sue them for a host of patent violations from their newly acquired patent portfolio.

 

[Cobster]

I think it'll have to do with the fact that Google would be a huge powerhouse (like it isn't already) in the tech field and more so in the cell field with Motorola AND RIM (in this "what if" scenario)...?
I don't think they'd be allowed to is what I should have clarified.
I could be wrong, just my guess.

lol @ eff off (Oracle)

 

[onthebottom]

No it was size, there is very little that Android can do that BB cannot....it is simply mass. Look at the Android team : LG, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony..etc etc.. massive, massive companies with deep and established distribution networks. Also the BB model is not good for wireless providers as they have to share the stream of revenue with RIM.

You have it backwards, there is very little BB could do that everyone else couldn't do... thus no reason for BB... they started with amazing market share and let it falter because the road the push-email wave too long... remember the "web is the app" stupidity.... and they were late to give up the ghost on the keyboard.

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[splooge]

wouldn't be surprised if a European suitor peeks into RIM's business. Perhaps Vodafone or Deutsche Telekom. It fit's their portfolios, not Google's (ad ad company for real).