Hog wash. They better not.

I find that very hard to believe w/the success and the industry bench mark that they have set.

you made me laugh so hard that I think I lost my contact lens!

what?

hog wash <-- LOL

As an old Psion fan, I have to say that Symbian is an elegant OS. Still this rumour fits squarely in the 'if it aint broke don't fix it' category.

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I couldn't imagine it either but Wall Street's talkin

Worst Rumor Ever.
Except for the one with RIM and Palm teaming up. That was pretty bad.

Symbian is awful. S-L-O-W.

Think of a nice 7750. That's faster than Symbian!

Haha hog wash

haha right.. that's like Microsoft ditching Windows...

Ya and going to Mac OS , its not going to happen!

Nah that's like apple ditching osx for windows

Well that would be a good thing then . OSX is horrible

Bad idea...

No way! Not going to happen...

BB OS is about the most stable mobile platform there is.....
Why change it?!!!!

Exactly . Which is why this isn't going to happen, and even if it *does* I am going to keep my 8100 for as humanly possible.

Oh ya one more thing, in the words of Larry The Cable Guy, "That's like wiping before you poop, it just don't make sense!"

OK Psion which lead to the Symbian OS core that we ALL know and see mostly used by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, less by Motorola lately, is still fairly new with the new OS core ... hmm 9.1a just came out early 2005, then 9.2 devices with the S60 GUI layer used by Nokia will debut late this year with the N75, then into next year with N95 (btw, the ONLY device announced with the NEW OS CORE 9.3). The upgrades are WAY to fast for a company like RIM to invest in. Furthermore, pay more royalties to the Symbian alliance which Nokia takes a big chunk fill into THEIR coffers ... AFTER the court case lump sum made by RIM early February this year?

NOT likely and I'll call anyones bluff on this UNTIL I see press release officially by RIM. Maybe as a secondary consumer device lineup ... that maybe but NOT as a complete overhaul!

Java is doing JUST fine.

My rim contact says they are in talks with the makers of Symbian to offload BB OS development, in some part, to symbian.

Apparently, RIM is attempting to reduce overhead? YIKES!!

LOL
Yes even apple users say OSX is garbage the palm rumor seems plausable an analyst said. That moterola bought a mail sevice company. Good mail or somthing basicly his therory is that rim will buy up palm to keep the overhead down an get more market share wich would make sense

HAHAHAHA... yeah, right. Whatever you say.

Who hates OSX?

hahahahahahahahaha

I think someone said it right... "hog wash"


Don't hate the fruit! hahaha

I call BS. They *might* offload something like the BBConnect, but even that is huge speculation and seems counterpoint to the RIM philosophy of "roll-your-own" everything. They are super-tight with their security on the device and don't let anyone (read: not a RIM employee) look under the hood.

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OMG 7750... Sooooooo slooooooow. :(

Why would RIM do what anyway?? Maybe cause they don't want to continue spending on OS development...

Where does that rumor come from?

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Motorola bought Good Technologies; they make a software that is about the equivalent of a BES but for Windows-based PDAs.

I don't think RIM will buy Palm... I think Palm sold their OS division to a Chinese company...

I have heard similar rumblings which cause great concern.

However being fully immersed in large scale business strategies. I have seen some pretty stupid decisions made by some very smart people within especially successful organizations.

The possibility of the BlackBerry OS being handed off to another company, or replaced by Symbian is a dreadful thought. A thought that many of us find unthinkable.

From a common sense perspective as a BlackBerry user I fail to find the logic, but then again what do I know?

Only time will tell.

I hope its just dumb speculation. The metting of OS and hardware is the core of RIM's success so far. But this what happens when IT companies try to catch up to a market that isn't their niche. Palm switched to Intel trying to play catch-up with Pocket PC and wound up dying with a crappy disfunctional emulator and a dead Intel based OS (remember cobalt) that never made it to market. This said, we all need to remember that RIM is treading into new waters in order to compete with other multimedia based solutions. Anything is possible under the right pressure. All we can do is hope for the best.

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PalmSource was bought by Access, which is a Japanese company. Palm (who only makes Hardware now), would be a stupid acquisition for RIM because they don't need it. Plam doesn't give them access to any market that they won't eventually be in with the Pearl (and presumably future consumer-oriented products).
Moto's purchase of Good and Nokia's purchase of Intellisync are just manoeuvers to try to have the same handheld + server end-to-end solution that RIM already offers. Also, since BBConnect already runs on PalmOS, Symbian and Windows Mobile(?), I don't really see the point in them trying to "buy" another software company, nor offload development to a third party.

I'm with you. I don't see the point either.

I am looking forward to using BlackBerry devices for a long time to come and hope they do not do anything counterproductive!

I hope greed and driving the stock price doesn't push them to a downward spiral.

Well Said....

I don't know which one is worse. What some of these corporations due to keep shareholders happy and the ever present greed factor can be a very compelling "excuse" for decisions which end up truly hurting the company and taking down, or crippling a very good product.