RIM reportedly approached Samsung to license out Blackberry OS

We reported earlier that rumors have suggested that RIM was initially looking to sell off their company, and among that list were Amazon, Microsoft and Nokia. However it seems that RIM was also considering licensing off their Blackberry OS and even approached Samsung to see if they were interested in creating smartphones with RIM’s Blackberry OS.

Well as it turns out, it seemed that Samsung did not see any value in developing a smartphone with RIM’s Blackberry OS on board. It’s not surprising considering that one of the main reasons behind RIM’s declining smartphone platform market share is because of Blackberry OS that failed to deliver what customers wanted in platforms such as iOS and Android.

With RIM pretty much betting the horse on their Blackberry 10 platform for the later half of 2012, let’s hope that they get it right this time and that Blackberry 10 will be RIM’s return to success and a decent slice of the smartphone platform pie.