RIM should realise that they have nothing to fear from the iPhone. It's not a smartphone, it's not aimed at the same customers as Blackberrys are. They should just relax and keep producing devices that appeal to their customers.
How about the fact that despite being launched only months before, the iPhone took over the number two position in the US, accounting for 28% of smartphone share for Q4 2007? RIM, by the way has 41%. Windows Mobile? 21%. Palm? 9%
Worldwide, iPhone's share is 6.5%, tying with Motorola for third place with RIM in second carrying 11.4% and Nokia commanding a massive 52.9%.
I wonder about those figures I'm sure they are probably true but honestly I don't consider the Iphone a smartphone to me it is a multimedia phone I don't think the Iphone in its current incarnation should be considered a smartphone but then I guess its all about how they define smartphone
Tony, the iPhone isn't a smartphone and it's clearly not a suitable alternative to a Blackberry for the vast majority of business users.
The only people who class the iPhone as a smartphone are people who want to inflate it's success, making it seem to be a big fish in a small pond. It is, in reality, a small fish in a huge pond as it's just a standard mobile phone, nothing more.
As for the figures you quote, they're clearly ones that favour the iPhone and even then I doubt the veracity of them.
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Iain @ Feb 8th 2008 10:48AM
RIM should realise that they have nothing to fear from the iPhone.
It's not a smartphone, it's not aimed at the same customers as Blackberrys are.
They should just relax and keep producing devices that appeal to their customers.
Tony C @ Feb 8th 2008 12:07PM
RIM has nothing to fear?
How about the fact that despite being launched only months before, the iPhone took over the number two position in the US, accounting for 28% of smartphone share for Q4 2007? RIM, by the way has 41%. Windows Mobile? 21%. Palm? 9%
Worldwide, iPhone's share is 6.5%, tying with Motorola for third place with RIM in second carrying 11.4% and Nokia commanding a massive 52.9%.
Joel Stephen @ Feb 8th 2008 1:26PM
I wonder about those figures I'm sure they are probably true but honestly I don't consider the Iphone a smartphone to me it is a multimedia phone I don't think the Iphone in its current incarnation should be considered a smartphone but then I guess its all about how they define smartphone
Iain @ Feb 8th 2008 3:09PM
Tony, the iPhone isn't a smartphone and it's clearly not a suitable alternative to a Blackberry for the vast majority of business users.
The only people who class the iPhone as a smartphone are people who want to inflate it's success, making it seem to be a big fish in a small pond. It is, in reality, a small fish in a huge pond as it's just a standard mobile phone, nothing more.
As for the figures you quote, they're clearly ones that favour the iPhone and even then I doubt the veracity of them.