http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/ Engadget Comments for RIM sells 50M BlackBerrys, Symbian says "how very quaint" http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/Feb 5th 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/Feb 5th 2009 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/Feb 5th 2009 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/
And please, cut out the iPhone fanboy crap, it's getting really, really tired. It was tired six months ago. We don't show any iPhone bias and I'd challenge you to prove otherwise.]]>Feb 5th 2009 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/Feb 6th 2009 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/
OSs vs OSs, fair now?]]>Feb 5th 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/
that's like substituting Mac OS X devices for Mac OS X, and comparing "OSes vs. OSes."

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Hardly. More like comparing Mac OS X devices and Solaris devices.

Symbian is more and more a Nokia-only outfit (since both Motorola and Sony Ericsson abandoned the UIQ flavor). Only a couple of Samsung handsets make it incomplete (and their sales are pretty low compared to Nokia). Also, Symbian is now a company that is fully owned by Nokia.

Basically, you are comparing the sales of Nokia S60 phones (mainly their N- and E-series devices) with BlackBerry devices. Simple as that.

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You can compare numbers to numbers, but there is no such unit as "number of people who go in the store and can exactly name the OS on their yet to be purchased smartphone". (Not to mention, that ppl would use Blackberry as the name of the phone, not the OS.)

It's really sounds like common excuses:
"Apple sold 10 million phones, Nokia sold 3xx million, but still Apple wins, because it's only one model" or
"iPhone 3G sold 1 million in 3 days, Nokia 5800 sold 1 million in 45 days, but still the 5800 is better, because Apple started with 22 countries and Nokia started with 5".

Yes, these are important things, which put the differences into perspective - but the fact is still 50 million vs 250 million (or 3 days vs 45 days).]]>Feb 6th 2009 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/
And yes # of devices do matter. If you sell 100 variants of a device with an OS youre sure to appeal to more people than an OS on 10 models. Plus lets not forget BB is mainly an enterprise tool and Symbian is a consumer product, again appealing to a MUCH larger number of people. ]]>Feb 6th 2009 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/
Second, RIM is becoming more consumer oriented with the BB Flip, Curve, Pearl and now the Storm, which all outsell the enterprise variants AND all of which were available last year. Your second argument also holds no weight.]]>Feb 6th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/Feb 6th 2009 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/Feb 6th 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/05/rim-sells-50m-blackberrys-symbian-says-how-very-quaint/
Regardless, the point of this article isn't to try and make a direct correlation between sales of BlackBerry devices and that of Symbian or Windows Mobile devices. It's just to point out that RIM has reached a milestone but it still has a way to go before it can challenge the other mobile platforms.]]>Feb 6th 2009 9:05AM