[azakus]

This would actually be a terrible idea. Imagine all the rewriting of every little business app people have written for their blackberries, and the instant obsolescence of BES servers. No, RIM just needs to innovate in a way that doesn't seem half-assed.

[wmf]

Presumably if RIM switched to Android, they would port all their apps (like the much-beloved mail client) to Android and possibly even have a J2ME VM to run old third-party Blackberry apps.