I'd drop out of the device race.

Well, first I'd arrange for the disappearance of the other CEO. And then I'd drop out of the device race.

Except, perhaps, to offer the best keyboard components for handhelds in the market. 

But frankly, no one that I've talked to cares about BlackBerry much. They don't care if the BlackBerry Playbook supports Flash or not. Flash is dead, the Playbook was stillborn, and the Blackberry smartphone is in palliative care.

So, now that I'm CEO and I have much less to worry about now that I'm not blowing millions of dollars on researching and developing second-string hardware (and an OS that no one wants and that developers won't develop for), I can focus on the thing that my company does best: developing secure enterprise level messaging and transaction platforms.

The mobile market is colossal. RIM already knows how to implement enterprise level services. Enterprises will need more innovative systems and subsystems to support their information and communication needs across devices.

If RIM opens the door wide, real wide, and creates SDKs and APIs for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server that hook into Google's mobile platforms (and Apple's if they can make the deal), times will get better.