@geoffrey n @ jack, I don't think am a hater of blackberry seeing as I have owned several of their handsets namely the 8830 and some other more obscure one. Its an awesome platform but felt rather limiting for me so I bailed. 

I think the major problem they have is loosing the coolness factor and their pricey tag.  Why is a bold still in the 30k range? is it justifiable? ok maybe am a hater but for my needs and most of the people I know not hooked up to a corporate network, iOS, android and windows phone are superior. for the mass market anyway. 

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Jac <jack.gathoni@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Mark

I believe RIM has relized that they are lossing the market a bit fast
and by licesing their OS to 3rd parties they can continue to
generating revenues to their past customers who ahevgone to androids,
windows and iphones. How?
For example I would buy BBM app on my android just to continue
enjoying communicating 'securely' to my BBM contacts which I had
before migrating to Android.

I think this will also give people who have never used a BB chance to
get a taste of BB features and this might translate to future BB
sales.

I believe RIM could boost BB sales by lifting or reducing the cost
CAL and BES licenses than licensing BB OS to third parties which
reduces the from a fully fledged phone provider to another mobile
application developer!

They are doomed I believe.

Just my two cents!

On 1/6/12, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
> what I was asking was which manufacturer would be interested in using
> blackberry os when they have their own?
>
> I don't think there will be a scramble for it.  Ave used the Playbook
> before and its awesome hardware n software.
>
> On 1/6/12, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not sure either, have never rooted a Play book. Wouldn't really encourage
>> it.
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