Having been a Blackberry user for a very long time, the fate of RIM is of some personal as well as professional interest. I’ll also declare that I have a financial interest having bought into RIM shares last month when the price went sub $7. In RIM Listening? I made the point (not too difficult…) that RIM really should be looking at either selling itself in whole or part. The time for believing that it could resurrect itself on its own is past. IDC announced yesterday that RIM’s market share had fallen to <5%.
Yesterday, RIM’s share price shot up to $7.62 largely on the back of an analyst report musing that Samsung were interested in either buying RIM or doing a licensing deal for its software. Samsung has been hugely successful as the main competitor to Apple’s iPhone. But it is dependent on Google for its OS. Google is a dangerous bedfellow as it too has its smartphone arm now. So the Samsung/Blackberry speculation has some credibility.