RIM has placed itself at the center of attention, and not the good kind either. First, RIM has been expeirnceing a downward rocket ride in market share to the point where the company is now worth less than the stock. Then today, news broke that co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis, and Jim Balsillie of more than 10 years would be stepping down in favor of ex-COO Thorsten Heins. It seemed as if RIM just wouldn’t get a break, but it seems Android may be here to save them (well, sorta). Heins himself has released a statement saying that “Playbook 2.0 and BlackBerry 10 will also have an Android player on it,”.

At this point, it isn’t shocking to see that RIM is exploring all of their options, but do you know what we would rather see? Instead of a BlackBerry that runs Android apps, wouldn’t you much rather a Blackberry simply running a full blown version of Android? With that, RIM could port over their BBM service, make it universal to all BlackBerry and Android users. All while making a profit from BBM in one form or another.

It’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.

Source: PhoneArena