Can RIM Possibly Survive Another Year?

| Monday, September 17, 2012
By Samuel Smith


Let us be obvious here: endurance of Research In Motion as a certain priority is becoming a questionable proposition. Is RIM trying to survive?

The BlackBerry creator these days publicized a number of negative news flash. The business posted a much more than anticipated loss for that fiscal first quarter ended Might 31. RIM is cutting 5,000 jobs, with regards to 30% in the latest employees. It expects more deficits in the 2nd quarter, and also you have to consider there will be at the least yet another quarter of red ink after that. Even worse, the firm declared that BlackBerry 10, the company's next generation mobile phone Operating-system, will likely be postponed until the 1st quarter of 2013.

That is definitely very, extremely lousy announcement for RIM bulls. The situation is straightforward. The firm is being squashed by much more effective Apple, Google Android and so Windows Phone 7 (and quickly Phone 8products. RIM CEO Thorsten Heins to the company's post-report seminar call thought carefully about how BlackBerry 10 is really a new program. However that just appears like a massive prolonged hit.

Forester professional Charles Golvin resolved that point in feedback this afternoon.

"The window for BlackBerry to continue to be a platform with realistic development possible is closing, and this advancement illustrates the pace in which it truly is concluding," he says. "In the approaching time period before the BlackBerry 10 release we anticipate a fresh iPhone, much more Android products working Google's most up-to-date version, as well as a massive push from Microsoft behind all the up coming editions of Windows. For that first BlackBerry 10 gadget to get the attention of shoppers plus creator at its modern beginning date it is going to should confirm itself better than the alternatives by leaps and bounds - the likelihood of which is very, quite low.

Golvin nails it. Indeed, the business has greater than $2 billion in money. The corporation has a potentially important patent portfolio. And it's 78 million energetic consumers. But how on earth does any person conclude that this corporation has a decent probability to outlive that has a flood of iOS6, Windows Phone 8 or Android 4.1 gadgets all anticipated to demonstrate up available ahead of BB 10 will get here - though brand new affordable Android devices carry on to distributed into the low end of the industry, the company's sole remaining supply of power.

The next day, there will probably be a fresh round of talk regarding how very low the company's stock may go, but these are resource worth calculations. It truly is undoubtedly feasible that someone buys several of the bits, specifically the patent portfolio, which in addition to the money now company accounts for most of RIM's remaining value. However the heart of the topic is that the company's fortunes are nonetheless decreasing rapidly, as well as there is certainly not much motive to hope a BB 10-based resurrection.

In late trading, RIMM is down $1.38, or perhaps 15.1%, to $7.75. Did NYT abandons BB app?




About the Author:



0 comments:

Post a Comment