“What will happen to BlackBerry?” Anton Wahlman writes for The Street. “In brief, it will most likely be acquired. The mobile computing game is too big for the even bigger companies to allow BlackBerry to remain independent.”
Wahlman writes, “BlackBerry has many strong assets that several parties could exploit and integrate into their operations. For starters: 75 million user base, including the valuable large enterprise users. Peanuts for Apple and Google, but material for Microsoft, Amazon, Nokia, HP and Samsung.”
“Who will NOT acquire BlackBerry? I see only two: Apple and Google,” Wahlman writes “They simply wouldn’t get away with it for anti-trust reasons. Both of these companies have to tread lightly, and BlackBerry isn’t worth it for them given their size and resources.”
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