Heard any new rumors lately? If you follow tech news at all, then of course you have. However, the rumor that has me most excited right now is about the possibility of Google purchasing Research In Motion (RIM). RIM makes Blackberry devices. RIM is having an increasingly tough time competing with Google Android & Apple iOS (iPhone). Lately, the question is being asked more & more: Should Google Buy RIM?
I personally would love to see this happen. Why? Because unlike Apple, which owns iOS as well as their own hardware for it (the iPhone), Google only has an operating system- Android. The problem with this scenario is that while Android is an awesome platform, it's used on many different devices, made by many different manufacturers, whom of which seem to love to tweak Android each time they release a new device, which in turn interferes with consistent updates & the overall uniformity of the operating system. I've thought this over & I can't see any downside to the acquisition. It would make Google a manufacturer. Now, they would not only own their operating system (Android) but they would also have way more control of how Android would be used on their devices. It would put a stop to the bleeding called "fragmentation", which is what happens when Android is spread out across so many different devices & tainted, changed, & modified to death on each one. For example: Your Android phone isn't the same as my Android phone. Yours acts a bit different than mine because, say, yours was built by Samsung & mine was built by Motorola. Google building their own devices would eliminate this, moving forward.
So what do you think? Any other ideas why Google should or shouldn't take over RIM? Share your thoughts.
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