RIM as two companies

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The report mentions Facebook and Amazon as potential buyers, but on Sunday several people close to RIM dismissed the news as “a silly fantasy,” and “one of the most ridiculous ideas I have heard in a while.”

The Globe and Mail’s headline says that “RIM dismisses report of splitting firm in two,” but that’s not actually true. It’s unnamed sources that said that.

So if they’re not going to split the company, how about just shutting it down.



  • http://twitter.com/hrpanjwani Hardik Panjwani

    ‘So if they’re not going to split the company, how about just shutting it down.’

    You come off sounding Michael Dell. That did not end well for him. :D

  • http://twitter.com/msreekan Mahesh Sreekandath

    LOL

  • 8PAQ

    Jim why do you hate RIM? They are Canadian after all and if there were able to to come back that would be great for competition. Plus BB10 has some innovative features.

    • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

      This question has been asked and answered here a lot.

      RIM’s leadership exhibited the arrogance to laugh off the possibility of Apple’s disruption of a market where RIM believed itself invulnerable. And now they’re panicked and desperate to make up for that costly mistake, but the only people who’ll truly pay for it are the Canadian citizens who’ll lose their jobs if RIM disappears.

  • http://twitter.com/holaMau Mau Sandoval 

    “a silly fantasy,” and “one of the most ridiculous ideas I have heard in a while.”….

    Just like a phone without a keyboard, right?

  • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

    “Social media companies aren’t just going to buy RIM. They’re not just going to walk in.”