Samsung makes a bid to buy BlackBerry: BBX for all!

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Samsung has made a bid to buy BlackBerry for as much as $7.5 Billion (Over 60% of current market value)

Samsung is currently the biggest cell phone and mobile device maker the in world, while also controlling over 60% of the Android market share.
Samsung has long wanted to leave Android in the dust for its own OS, Tizen.
Due to issues regarding the development of Tizen and the near universal praise for BBX OS, it makes sense that Samsung is wanting BlackBerry.

If Samsung does go through with this and uses BBX, it would cause Android to lose it's biggest player and its sole profitable player.

What does this mean for Android's global market share?
If Samsung was to switch to BBX at the time of purchase it would result in Android losing 45% (75% market share X Samsung's 60% market share) of it's global market share.

It would leave Android with 30% market share handing iOS the crown!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive ... 37341.html

Reuter's via Yahoo!

Why in the Hell would they overpay by that amount?
I know M&A garner a premium, but that is absurd.

Is someone else competing against them to acquire BB?