BlackBerry continues its descent into hell, but hope to bounce back in the arms of another. The Canadian group, former star of the mobile in the early 2000s, confirmed Monday explore “multiple tracks” including that of an assignment. But the candidates are few and redemption, as analysts point out, it’s been a year since BlackBerry looking – at least officially – a buyer. Shy sales of new devices are fearing the worst: a bankruptcy filing. “The question is who would buy BlackBerry ,” said Joe Rundle, an analyst at ETX Capital. “Difficult sales, strategic failure and unattractive products mean that the acquisition of BlackBerry could be fatal to one of his rivals,” he says . BlackBerry however, is not an empty shell: it still has some gems to make. Its patent portfolio, for example, only dream of a competitor. Chinese manufacturers such as Huawei and ZTE, which have virtually unlimited cash as supplied by the Chinese government, would love to devour such assets: they arrived late on the sector, with few patents, and the Beijing now encouraged to respect intellectual property. But the Canadian government is sure to oppose such an operation. The other candidates wealthy enough, like Apple or Samsung, not sure they want to get a foot in such a mess. Especially since Barack Obama intervened to save Apple by vetoing – a first since 1987 – a decision favorable to Samsung justice through his endless patent war with Apple. The value given to patents, including BlackBerry, took a big hit. Since the invention of the smartphone modern by Apple in 2007, with the arrival of the first iPhone, the collapse was total at Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry become. However, teams have worked hard to introduce in January 2013 a new modern operating system, BlackBerry 10 (BB10 called ), and new appliances including Z10 (no physical keyboard, totally tactile) and Q10 (with touch screen and physical keyboard). Everything is efficient and has attracted good reviews, but it was too late: the market is saturated with Apple systems (iOS), Google ( Android), or even Microsoft (Windows Phone). Developers are reluctant to add a new platform as they have already published several versions of their applications to power the App Store (Apple), the Play Store (Google) and the Windows Store. To persist in developing a home system might be a bad choice. Nokia, the former world number one also brought down by the arrival of the iPhone has almost raised its head in 2013 thanks to the excellent Lumia range, the result of a very thorough partnership with Microsoft and Windows teams Phone 8. For this, the Finnish engineers had to reluctantly abandon their Symbian and projects successors, to focus on the adaptation of Microsoft software to their devices. Honorable Lumia sales have enabled Windows Phone to overtake BlackBerry earlier this year in the global smartphone market. however difficult to imagine BlackBerry equipped with software such as Android or Windows Phone, the brand would lose some of its appeal. Many companies were equipped to enjoy a supposedly more secure network, which exists only in the software house. If this strength has been dented since governments around the world, including dictatorships, demand and get access to customer data as well as those BlackBerry customers of other manufacturers, it remains that Canadian appliances enable enterprises to deploy more powerful than the iPhone, completely locked by Apple security policies.
BB10 too late
The example of Nokia
