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Well, if Facebook wants to be really serious about mobile, they can purchase RIM. RIM has essentially everything facebook lacks - expertise in building consume
by martythemaniak 14y ago
Well, if Facebook wants to be really serious about mobile, they can purchase RIM.
RIM has essentially everything facebook lacks - expertise in building consumer hardware, carrier relationships, retail channels, top-notch systems engineers, etc. They are also very cheap, with a current market cap of $5.5B.
- idleloops 14y agoGood idea. Though if they bought both Rim and Opera I think I'd cry. There is me trying to desperately escape Facebook.
- tomkarlo 14y agoRIM's been trying pretty hard to build a popular smartphone (in today's market) without much success. I'm not sure having their phone's "Facebookized" would make them that much more popular - and it would almost certainly not be popular with their remaining enterprise base. Not to mention that my sense of the cultures of these two companies (admittedly, from the outside only) is that they're about as oil-and-water as you can get. Buying RIM would mean taking on maybe a billion or more in inventory risk, plus the risk that you'd see a lot of the talent walk out the door anyway (something that's been going on for a while now.)
- tar 14y agoRIM has around 16000 employees while Facebook has just 3000 employees. Even if Facebook buys RIM I think it would really difficult to integrate the two companies.