The BB10 operating system is being licensed for other hardware like Microsoft Windows Phone 8.

Agreed. RIMs most likely path for success is as a shell company licensing its technologies to other companies that can actually make and ship modern phones.

They still have $2 billion in cash and a user base of 80 million that grew by 2 million last quarter.

RIMs revenue for the last quarter grew from the prior quarter, but is still down considerably from last year. The way theyre gaining users is by fire sale.