"Research in Motion has been dying for so long that it feels cruel to dwell on its turn for the worse. But the earnings report that the company put out last week was so disastrous—so much more terrible than anyone expected—that it now looks like RIM has passed the point of no return. Shipments of BlackBerry smartphones declined by 41 percent since last year, RIM said. Wall Street analysts had been expecting the company to break even during the quarter; instead, it lost half a billion dollars. Even worse, the company says its first phone based on BlackBerry 10—the new operating system on which RIM is pinning its future—will be delayed until 2013, meaning the company will lose out on holiday sales. Can anything save RIM now? The smart money says no. RIM’s original sin was its decision to create technology that satisfied corporate IT departments rather than regular people. That worked well a decade ago, when we thought of smartphones as devices to help us work better. But people now choose phones for fun as much as for work, and IT departments look to employees to decide which phones to support. The shift caught RIM by surprise, and it has been trying to build killer “consumer” phones ever since the iPhone became a blockbuster. Over the last few years, the company has attempted to refresh its software and put out phones that lacked its signature physical keyboard. It’s also now building an app store that it says rivals those of other platforms." - AJ Batac from Bookmarklet

There are people that prefer the Blackberry to everything else out there and refuse to switch. - Mike Nencetti

BB will likely be bought out, but I don't know if Microsoft wants them. Two years ago sure, but now? - Eric - seven eleven