Apple and RIM in a fruity collaboration?

Here's another one from the grapevine: an analyst is predicting (read: guessing) that Apple may be partnering with RIM to create some sort of "AppleBerry". The analyst behind this rumor is none other than Peter Misek, who correctly predicted that Intel and RIM would form a partnership last year.

Paul Miller over at TUAW's sibling Engadget squeezes the substance out of the rumor: "with the tight control both RIM and Apple keep on their hardware and software, we can't really imagine this as the happiest of unions." Judging by past hardware collaborations (the not-quite-rocking ROKR being the primary example), we have to agree with this sentiment.

[Via Engadget]