“Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, advanced as much as 9.8 percent after a report that Samsung Electronics Co. may be interested in buying the company,” Scott Moritz reports for Bloomberg.
“Samsung may be interested in buying RIM, and no deal has been made because Waterloo, Ontario- based RIM is asking too much, the blog BGR reported today, without identifying its sources,” Moritz reports. “An acquisition of RIM, whose stock fell 75 percent last year amid market-share losses, would give Samsung an operating system that would help it differentiate from competition as it seeks to stay ahead of Apple Inc. Samsung now makes phones based on Google Inc.’s Android software and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone, operating systems also used by rivals such as HTC Corp.”
MacDailyNews Take: And Bada. And Tizen someday. How many inferior mobile operating systems does the Slavish Copier need on-hand, exactly?
Moritz reports, “Short of an acquisition, RIM could strike a technology- licensing deal with Samsung, said Tavis McCourt, a Morgan Keegan and Co. analyst in Nashville, Tennessee.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hey, Samsung, why buy RIM’s OS when you can just rip it off for free? Can you answer that yourselves or do you have to go ask your pimp, Google?
MDN’s take exactly. Samsung’s needs some serious medical attention for their mobile OS habit.
Seriously, I don’t really see RIM’s assets as attractive to anyone. Their OS is a mess, their hardware is mediocre and they have ZERO ecosystem. And their one “ace in the hole,” push messaging/notifications/email, is completely proprietary and would have to be re-invented for many companies.
When the dust settles on what was once RIM, I hope that QNX survives. Before RIM got their paws on it, it was a great realtime OS for a multitude of applications. I hope that QNX can continue to be that great OS.
(Yes, I’m an OS X fan. But Macs can’t run everything. A bit overpriced for controlling something like a traffic light.)
I really want to see that amateur hour swagger one more time.
BGR is a tabloid, which regularly come ups with many random, most of which are blatantly nonsensical.
Of course, Samsung is not going to kill its balance sheet with RIM.
many random *lies*
haven’t heard of FUDster Scott Moron for a long time…
“as it seeks to stay ahead of Apple Inc”
Sorry but I don’t understand this, how is it that samsung will “Stay Ahead” of apple if they are so behind?
Because idiots think that “market share” is the important metric. They conveniently forget that businesses are in business to make profits.
They ripped them off once already. I was call the Samsung ‘BlackJack’ and it failed too. :O
Whenever you see the letters BGR as the sole source, you know it’s not true.
Debunked by Samsung who have stated we never even thought of buying RIM
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE80G1Q520120117?irpc=932
MDN – Samsung is guilty and sees in the near future getting Android pulled out of the game – so to stay in it needs to find an alternative – OFC!!!
Damn MDN definitely shows no love loss in this article especially the remark of Google being the pimp of Samsumg!
I hope that QNX is open sourced