[Samuel_Michon]

“I must say its all very well handing out free tablets etc and offering incentives but maybe getting a few key applications ported and even paying to get them ported would be a better investment.”

I doubt it. Microsoft has done everything you mentioned, but it hasn't helped Windows Phone 7. Instead, they've decided to bury WP7 and are starting over with WP8. And Windows Phone is a decent OS. RIM doesn't have a good OS or modern hardware.

Honestly, I don't think RIM will still exist this time next year.

[daeken]

> Honestly, I don't think RIM will still exist this time next year.

RIM is going to hell in a handbasket, but they'll be around for another 5-10 years. Why? Their market cap is still $4B, their cash on hand is $1.5B (no debt). They may be hemorrhaging users and losing developer mindshare, but they have a lot of money and a lot of time left to make dumb mistakes in hopes of one of them working out. C.f. Yahoo.

[huxley]

In June 2008, their market cap was $83B. In June 2011, it dropped to $13.6B. Today they are down to $4B.

As for cash on hand, they were sitting on twice that amount last year.

The decline is extremely significant and it does no one any good to pretend that they could ride this out for 5-10 years.

[Samuel_Michon]

RIM Customers Working On Contingency Plans

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-09/rim-s-customers-wor...