Two options:
1. FB + RIM = Facebook teams up with or buys RIM to inject new life into their phone line, which has been weak for the past 3 years. The ex-Apple designers that FB hired only have to come up with a decent hardware solution as QNX is a solid OS with huge potential.
Established channels of distribution/mobile provision for the phones plus the advantage of the secure BB platform would make this the best option. Add to that the potential licensing of the BB Platform to Android phone developers and Apple and there would be a near instantaneous resurgence of RIM's market share.
2. FB + Microsoft = Facebook and MS already are tied at the hip with Skype and Bing integration. Window Phones already have distribution channels set up, so a partnership in this regard makes sense. Although it must be said that the RIM partnership would be stronger. Windows phones aren't being forecast to have a strong demand this year given that the iphone 5 may be coming out in October.
The critics who are pushing that this is the end of FB aren't thinking analytically and are forecasting a worst-case scenario of FB trying to do it all by themselves. Zuckerberg only got $16 Billion out of the IPO, so to create a new phone line from scratch would be idiotic. Zuckerberg didn't get this far by not thinking carefully and thoroughly about his business steps.
FB hatred has blinded quite a few pundits and it's showing.
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