It's very apparent that the beleaguered and plagued ship of RIM will sink further, willy-nilly.

An acquaintance of mine, who switched from Blackberry to iPhone, just now said to me that the latter is A LOT better than the former. For one thing, the Blackberry Messenger, which is even one of the flagship features of Blackberry products, constantly freezes, while iPhone offers many excellent features and apps which easily win over those of Blackberry.

All in all, now seems to be the time to count the months to the end of RIM known as an independent company in existence, given the fleetingly changing competitive landscape of the smart phone and tablet industry (read: Apple, Android, Samsung, HTC, Amazon's Kindle Fire), combined with the relatively weak leadership in the RIM corporation and the relatively slow speed of innovation and improvement of RIM's products.

All the above remarks of mine are as-objective-as-possible evaluation of the situation, from my perspective.