Equity Firm Looks to Take BlackBerry Private
Good!
I was hoping that they would take this company private rather than sell it off in pieces. A private equity firm may still do that though. The price per share seems a bit low. Despite what many people think, Blackberry does hold value in terms of patents and its balance sheet is good considering where they are. An equity firm wouldn't even look at it if it was hopeless.
ahh the heck with it...let the "its about time" speeches begin 🤣
ahh the heck with it...let the "its about time" speeches begin 🤣
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On the first day of availability, BBM for Android was downloaded 1.1 million times...and that was for an accidentally released demo version that doesn't work......this shows I think a possible future direction for Blackberry as a provider of services and software rather than hardware...
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Of course, that should have been available years ago. It was really pretty dense and delusional of Blackberry to act as if nobody who wanted their message service could possibly need... anything else.
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Given that they saw BBM as an exclusive, premium feature for Blackberries, why would they make it available for other platforms while they were still interested in making their own hardware?
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T Bone said:
Given that they saw BBM as an exclusive, premium feature for Blackberries, why would they make it available for other platforms while they were still interested in making their own hardware?
I feel like I am repeating myself, but the answer is because it is delusional to think that people who wanted Blackberry's service wouldn't want any other hardware or any other services not available on Blackberry hardware. And yet they stuck with that belief by insisting that their service was just a method of forcing people to buy their hardware. And... crash.
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That's like saying that Sony should should make Playstation 4 games compatible to run on the X Box One, or saying that the nook should be made compatible with the Kindle.....you don't t give up the one thing that makes your product distinctive, that's suicide.
You don't give up your killer app....which is why Microsoft will never make Halo for the Playstation and why Coke will never give its formula to Pepsi.
You don't give up your killer app....which is why Microsoft will never make Halo for the Playstation and why Coke will never give its formula to Pepsi.
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