Microsoft reportedly plans to acquire BlackBerry

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8 points·aritraghosh007··11 comments

Potentially smart move. I always argued Oracle should buy them and have end to end business services. Hardware OS database language applications and integrated phone services. I guess the only thing Microsoft would be missing from the picture is the hardware, and they can always partner for that.

What does Microstt have planned? They'd massively reduce headcount at Blackberry. What's the point of combining the two also-rans of the mobile phone industry?

Patents.

Okay, the patents of Nokia and Blackberry in one hand (and especially Microsoft's hand) is a scary thought.

The Nokia patents were not part of the acquisition, Nokia Networks kept them.

Microsoft - yesterday's technology, tomorrow.

What does blackberry even do? Haven't heard anything about them in several years.

More recently their purchase of QNX. It is pretty popular in RTOS circles, car entertainment systems and the like. I guess they could make sure of that somehow? And maybe some of their enterprise business stack? It does seem kind of strange though yeah.

Recently? That was in 2010 (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisiti...)

Also, I don't think the OP would call buying companies "doing something". Looking at http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_(company)#Strategi..., a cynic would say it has been busy surviving while looking for a buyer.

It'd make sense-though really MSFT should've done this years ago.

Maybe, but depends on their goal. I don't think it's to enable the second coming of Blackberry phones.

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