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Microsoft Reportedly May Acquire BlackBerry
New submitter techtsp writes: Microsoft is just one one of many companies reportedly looking to get a bigger piece of the enterprise mobile market by buying BlackBerry. Reports claim that Chinese firms including Huawei, Lenovo and Xiaomi are also interested in picking up BlackBerry following the company's recent return to profitability. This report comes on the heels of BlackBerry announcing it is cutting jobs across its global business units in an attempt to consolidate its software, hardware and applications business.
This one will be easier, Microsoft won't have to plant a trojan CEO to annihilate the company's market share first.
Circumcision is child abuse.
I like "Crashberry"
Table-ized A.I.
From the author's bio: "He is having immense interest in psychology, human behavior and mind hacks."
Given that as well as the bad grammar, I'm pretty sure this is made up to get a reaction.
nice going there, ay?
Don't you mean "eh". As in "Lets all go to Tim Hortons for hot dogs and beer after a good match of curling, eh." or "There is a mouse in this beer, eh."
"ay" is from somewhere ootside of Canada.
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I'm sure this will be as big a success for Microsoft as their acquisition of Danger, Incorporated, developer of the Danger Hiptop/T-Mobile Sidekick, which led the innovative, exciting, youth-oriented Microsoft Kin. And the rest is history.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
I'm horrified, partly because I'm on the verge of buying a BB Passport. It's the best thing they've done in years, and since playing with SWMBO's (she bought one instead of a galaxy edge, after much comparison). The BB has a nice android implementation, simple hack to add the Google apps, better security and sandboxing of droid apps, and real keys with a touch surface that flows right onto the 1440x1440 touchscreen. Oh, and all that stuffy Blackberry stuff. It's a truly awesome piece of hardware. And now Redmond wants to gut 'em for their IP portfolio and security reputation?
In the mobile market, Microsoft is like King Midas in reverse: everything they touch turns to shit.* But this isn't a rant about Microsoft, it's a worry that Blackberry -- having done the amazing job of pulling out of the total nosedive they were in -- might get stomped just as they level out, and ship something even better. What a disappointment that would be.
*apologies to Tony Soprano
I think not...(*poof*)
MS wants to buy the patents. The let the rest die.
MicroBerry?
BlackSoft??
MicroBlackSoftBerry???
Once they acquire the patents, they'll make a tablet with a keyboard and insist it's not a laptop. :P
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Either that or Microsoft is sick and tired of competing with blackberry for the ass end of the smartphone market, and hopes to grow from 2.3% market share to 3.3% again.
Just a small note, the military is switching to the iPhone 6 from the BlackBerry. Most of the leadership at the very large DoD facility I work for turned in their BlackBerries a few months back for iPhones.
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Trust me, either way Blackberry will lose a large amount of customers almost overnight.
Now that Ballmer is gone, maybe we can be a little more optimistic for once, eh?
Hey, babe, I know I used to beat you, but trust me. I've changed.
I like "Crashberry"
Maybe Microsoft could make a Blackberry crash. I personally had believed that phones crashing was just a joke because my Blackberry literally never crashed or needed rebooting. Then I got an Android and found out that, yes, phones really do crash. Apparently iphones do too, from what I hear from iphone owners, however, iphones crash because it is Job's will.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
I personally had believed that phones crashing was just a joke because my Blackberry literally never crashed or needed rebooting.
Now we know you're a plant, I've had quite a few blackberries since the mid 2000s. Every single one of them have crashed to the extent where I had to remove the batteries.
People who don't understand how Microsoft has fucked over IT for the past few decades should really take the time to study some history.
Microsoft just lost the Ford account to BlackBerry. I'm more inclined to think Microsoft sees the value in BlackBerry QNX in the IoT arena. BlackBerry is positioning itself to be the middleware glue for medical, auto, automation, and a host of other fields.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
I love that article. 5 seconds of Googling shows that Elop didn't actually become CEO of Nokia until the end of 2010, but for some reason the article decides to start half a year earlier, with the sales record of the previous CEO, who was forced out for poor performance. You're reading an article that's more concerned with being a hit piece than the truth.
Another 10 seconds of Googling shows that at the beginning of 2011, Android was the top smartphone OS: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/an...
Elop talked about all this at the beginning of his infamous "burning platform" memo.
Realistically, how would a CEO completely tank a phone OS in like two months? Steve Jobs needed a few years at Apple before his ideas really went from concept to production.
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