Agree with all of your assessment, except that RIM is too entrenched to die within a year or two. Their death throes will last many years, <joke>unless they get a helping hand because Elop fancies a move back to Ontario sometime in the future.</joke>

...and while I'm not Canadian, I'm still embarrassed that my home province produced him. Trojan? Nincompoop? Misunderstood genius? Doesn't matter - what's done is done.