Assuming this is ‘real’, they should have done this 10 years ago.
Better late than never, I guess....
They are teetering on the verge of irrelevancy. Of course, that has been the case for years, but no one has come along to replace them. We’re reaching ‘peak innovation’ in the OS/Mobile Device space. Now they’re just cannibalizing and we’re gonna see price deflation. As with everything, someone is going to come up with something new that will breakout from the pack. I doubt it will be from Apple or Microsoft. If I HAD to guess, I’d think Google, but it will probably be someone we wouldn’t suspect.
Who knows.... Blackberry has actually been developing some great devices lately. A couple of years ago, I thought they were all but dead.
Microsoft knows business. That’s what they bring to the table. This will continue. The only question is about how.
Open sourcing Windows also would relieve them of the onus of having to fix every bug in Windows back to the beginning of time. Already they are kind of backtracking on the “will not maintain XP” position and sending out limited security updates.
Guessing Blackberry over Apple, which is increasing its dominance in smartphones, gaining shares in PCs while every other making is shrinking, dominates the tablet market, makes great wireless networking solutions, is the absolute leader in online sales of music, has a market leading TV streaming product, has the best mobile OS with the greatest security bar none, seems like a silly idea. Apple has simply made the best products in every category it enters. It does not always have the greatest market share but it always is profitable and usually the most profitable. And it innovates more than any other company. It is right there out in the open and has become the worlds most valuable company while most tech people seem to think it is a small gadget manufacturer. It is worth roughly the same as Google and Microsoft combined.