Consortium offers to buy BlackBerry

I "had" been a longtime Blackberry user and almost jumped at the chance at picking up a Z10 but instead opted for the Samsung S4 given that it was more mature and the unknown nature of the Blackberry future.

It would seem that future has been announced in the form of a 4.7 Billion buyout by a Canadian Consortium.

It's unclear what the consortium's plans for BlackBerry would be. BlackBerry said that it plans to focus on the enterprise and specifically security and mobile device management. On Friday, BlackBerry said it will cut 4,500 jobs, report sales of $1.6 billion (nearly half what was expected) and take a massive writedown due to BlackBerry Z10 inventory.

The logical move for them would be to leverage the patents and become a premier enterprise supplier.  That is what they have done well in for many years and seems to be the perfect niche.

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