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Should and will Google buy RIM
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yes, the company has many loyal followers, and alot of people still use and swear by blackberry phones. RIM, if they wanted, they could get help from google and become relevant...there was a prototype i saw a year or so ago that was a blackberry but with a 4.3 inch screen (way to big if you ask me) 8mp HD camera, and touch screen. if they can take the tech they put into their playbook. and apply it to a touchscreen phone, they would have something going for them.
and yes i have played with the playbook, and i must say.
RIM, i am impressed.
and yes i have played with the playbook, and i must say.
RIM, i am impressed.
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The Playbook is nice and fast, that's because of the core of the blackberry OS. QNX. Android Would benefit from QNX integration. It would make Android faster and more stable. Only downside is that we would be unable to root our phones. But hey we root for better performance, and a QNX kernel would more than make up for that.
yep, we also root to get rid of bloatware...however, with QNX, you can easily remove said bloatware.
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It's a win win. Blackberry phones running a version of Android would be very appealing as well.
It's a win win. Blackberry phones running a version of Android would be very appealing as well.
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There's no loss for Google if it acquires RIM so I don't see why we shouldn't buy RIM. It will just make the Android community bigger and better .
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charlie hustle
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Just for the trust of the corporate world by itself, is a reason to buy RIM. Mays loyalists are jumping ship from RIM. I have a co-worker who had the latest blackberry every year. She three way'd me with an ATT rep this weekend to set up her exchange account, the end of the conversation i asked what phone she just got (upgrading from the tourch), the rep told me an android (infuse 4g).
I am not sure what they should do with RIM hanging in the balance. I have had a few blackberry devices in the past. they were reliable peices of hardware for being hardware. The software they were running was stable as well. Didnt really have any problems with it when i was a blackberry user.
As far as Google taking them over, Android software is already far surpassed blackberries and same with the majority of the hardware as well. A high end blackberry device is just a hair better then a low end Android device. What could they get from buying RIM?
The only thing i could think of is all the patents that RIM has acquired over the years. That could def give an advantage to google in some cases. But they dont need them from a hardware or software standpoint.
As far as Google taking them over, Android software is already far surpassed blackberries and same with the majority of the hardware as well. A high end blackberry device is just a hair better then a low end Android device. What could they get from buying RIM?
The only thing i could think of is all the patents that RIM has acquired over the years. That could def give an advantage to google in some cases. But they dont need them from a hardware or software standpoint.
What would Google really get from this that would be of great benefit to them, other then BBM and some patents?
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QNX. Which when incorporated into Android, would make Android an even better OS. More stable, more secure, and faster. Just to mention a few things. Plus RIM's patents, something Google needs really bad.
I agree. Not so much about QNX, but definitely about the patents. The way things operate in the smartphone business, you can never have enough patents.
One drawback that I find if we acquire QNX is no more rooting 
. I always like to tweak more handsets for better or worse (preferrably for the better)
. I always like to tweak more handsets for better or worse (preferrably for the better)
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But QNX improves performance and allows removal of bloatware. The two main reasons why we root. So it works out anyway.One drawback that I find if we acquire QNX is no more rooting
full tat control, qnx, patents lots of them, another market to run rampant in, and possibly much more. rim owns alot of patents something google currently is struggling with. now you are going to say "qnx? so what they never made it much through the late 80's and early 90's except in the industrial field" true but qnx is much much more flexable as to what it can do. the biggest problem with playbook qnx os is....rim. the idiotic things they put on the os causes it to have problems. all the current nuke plants use qnx as its controlling system, including the destroyed japanese nuke plants. it failed because water+electronics is not a good mix and caused catastrophic system failure. but google has alot more to gain from absorbing rim then you think.
But QNX improves performance and allows removal of bloatware. The two main reasons why we root. So it works out anyway.
yeagh except if rim is at the helm. i keep getting these updates everytime i remove something they put in. no one uses aol anymore and bing maps is so annoying.
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True, But Google would be at the helm instead of RIM. RIM would be a hardware manufacturer.
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