Comments on: RIM again tipped to be selling out to Samsung http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Niikk http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/#comment-173408 Niikk Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:44:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=209575#comment-173408 In ways this could be good for RIM seein as there outage not long ago turned quite a lot of people against RIM and bosses of big companys using blackberry soley for the purpose of email, if RIM sold out to a company like samsung then merged andriod and BBM now that is a smart move. We’ll have to stay tuned to what happens :)

]]> By: Niikk http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/#comment-173409 Niikk Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:44:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=209575#comment-173409 In ways this could be good for RIM seein as there outage not long ago turned quite a lot of people against RIM and bosses of big companys using blackberry soley for the purpose of email, if RIM sold out to a company like samsung then merged andriod and BBM now that is a smart move. We’ll have to stay tuned to what happens :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/#comment-172439 Anonymous Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:12:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=209575#comment-172439 Samsung / RIM would be awesome if they can pull off the integration. Samsung’s appealing hardware is what RIM lacked, but integrating BBOS, enterprise security and email will be their challenge. RIM obviously does not have the hardware or software engineering expertise to do so in the speed ghe market needs.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/#comment-172433 Anonymous Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:50:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=209575#comment-172433 Can you imagine a Galaxy BlackBerry??

]]> By: AppleFUD http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/#comment-172430 AppleFUD Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:29:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=209575#comment-172430 I agree that it does make a lot of sense for these two companies. Not to mention that the QNX platform is something Samsung can use in a wide range of products from medical to home entertainment–a much more unifying OS than their current strategy. Samsung has departments for just about everything you can imagine and they really do need one platform for everything and QNX was designed just for that purpose. 

Combine that with what Samsung has been doing with Bada & Tizen. They could make QNX the core of the OS and use their Bada UI rather easily and if they open-source it. . . . . wow.

]]> By: Philip Wattis http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/#comment-172424 Philip Wattis Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=209575#comment-172424 Good point Jon. Really the target is the patents, with some kit, IP and customers thrown in as extras? Maybe.

]]> By: Jon Garrett http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/#comment-172422 Jon Garrett Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:07:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=209575#comment-172422 maybe to fend off some of the constant apple lawsuits.

]]> By: Edward Kim http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/#comment-172421 Edward Kim Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:04:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=209575#comment-172421 The biggest problem with RIM is they have weak R&D and can’t elegantly fill their phones with the latest fancy smartphone hardware such as fast processors, memory, cameras, screens, etc.  All these are Samsung strengths.  RIM’s greatest strength is enterprise level brand equity and OS technology, all Samsung weaknesses.  This deal makes sense strategically.  Not sure if this deal makes sense financially as I don’t know what prices are being discussed.

]]> By: Philip Wattis http://www.slashgear.com/rim-again-tipped-to-be-selling-out-to-samsung-17209575/#comment-172417 Philip Wattis Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:50:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=209575#comment-172417 This could do wonders for RIM with Samsung already leading the smartphone market by volume. You have to wonder though where is the appeal for Samsung?

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