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BlackBerry puts itself up for sale

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Post by sirkneeland »

gummify wrote: post #76

This sucks for Canada. Less than five years ago RIM/BlackBerry's share prices were trading at ~$150, now it's $10! I can see this depressing Canadian start-ups and its tech industry. Like Kodak, the main reasons for BB's downfall was their own human mistakes - complacency, hubris, and arrogance.

Actually if you look at the Nokia example, quite the opposite can happen. A large, prominent, "national champion" company absorbs a huge amount of talent. As Nokia has downsized thousands of workers, they released thousands of entrepreneurs and engineers into the Finnish startup ecosystem. It's exciting times in Helsinki nowadays. The same could happen in Waterloo, and in Canada as a whole.

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Post by dallagi »

guruz wrote: post #90
HorizonXP wrote: post #67

As an Android developer by day, and a BlackBerry developer by night, it boggles my mind why everyone thinks BB10 is crap, and that no one wants it. Spend 1 week with a BlackBerry Z10 or Q10, and you'll see how great it actually is in comparison to other platforms. Spend some time developing an app for it in Qt and Cascades, and you'll see how great it is to develop for, in comparison to other platforms. People also n…

I've ordered a Q10 some days ago and hope I won't regret it. BB10 has an Android compatibility layer, so that might bring over some apps that might be still lacking.

I own a Q10 and I love it. Really, I didn't think that it could be so good, but now I couldn't switch to android back. of course i't just MHO.

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Post by dannomatic »

jfb wrote: post #104
dredmorbius wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And patent portfolio. Depending on where Amazon wants to take Kindle, that could be useful.

True. And it's not like Amazon doesn't have the money to splash around.

Amazon is already in the hardware business and it is far from dead and dusted. Sorry to disagree. The Kindle Fire is a significant component in their business, it's currently running on Android, BB10 is an excellent OS + platform. Makes sense to buy BBRY, port to Kindle, disjoin from one of your biggest competitors and keep or eject the remaining pieces of BBRY hardware available on a case by case basis. The Q10 is a nice piece of hardware and BB10 is a great platform.

It's a natural fit and like I mentioned above Amazon was quite interested 18 months ago, I doubt much there has changed except the fact that the market cap for BBRY has fallen since then, making it an even more attractive asset to Amazon.

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