Microsoft + RIM = MicroBerry?

[JMcEntegart]

With the global economy taking a beating, all companies stocks are dropping. However, scarier news is that Microsoft may be planning a RIM takeover bid.

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[AndrewMD]

Either that or Google will attempt to bid for them and replace the Berry OS with their abismal god forsakened Android OS...

I hope MS does buyout RIM just so I don't see a Google-Berry...

 

[resonance451]

Well, there's really not anything that can make the Blackberry more garbage than it is already. I've gone through four, and I can say without a doubt that they are the greatest technological failure known to man. And I can't say I injected very much hyperbole in that statement.

Perhaps if the purchase happens, Blackberries will begin to suck a little less.

 

[Guest]

wow android hater over there...how can you not like android i just don't understand, maybe the physical handset but whats wrong with android as on OS...

 

[Guest]

@resonance451...mmm, yeah if they were that bad you would not have gone through 4 of them, something that bad would be blatantly obvious the first time.

 

[kamkal]

crackberries are good

RIM getting bought by MS = crackberries will suck.

but maybe then Jim Balsillie will finally be able to buy the predators and move them to hamilton

lol

 

[invlem]

RIM's working on its own to move into the non-business market, the blackberry bold is only the first step. I doubt Microsoft would move in and buy them out, some sort of partnership maybe.

There's way too much going on for them to just drop down to the point where MS would move in. This company doesn't sit idle very long, they'll shoot back up there in no time.

 

[resonance451]

"@resonance451...mmm, yeah if they were that bad you would not have gone through 4 of them, something that bad would be blatantly obvious the first time."

They were free replacements, two of which had to happen within the same day. Think before you post. Perhaps I hadn't explained all of the circumstances, but all replacements were due to defects and problems with the Blackberries, not user error or damage. After I realized I'd have no choice, I switched phones. Would it have been better for me to discount the phone for a single defect and then talk about how horrible it is? I decided to thoroughly investigate it instead.

I shouldn't need to cram everything down your throat. Maybe it would help if you operated less on pretenses.

 

[pug_s]

Blackberry was already popular years ago. Microsoft could've brought them then when they are cheap.

 

[crom]

Uh oh. If Microsoft buys RIM you'll see 25 different blackberry models that do slightly different things.

Blackberry XP, Blackberry Home, Blackberry Pro, Blackberry Home Ultimate Turbo Ultra.