Apple iPhone closing in on BlackBerry market share

sure I'm biased, but I don't get the Blackberry thing- my wife has one, and the buttons are half the size of tic-tacs, the OS is basic, boring, and not that great to navigate, and the screen resolution stinks. Catch'em iPhone.

I think this is actually a VERY positive finding for RIM. Who knew that the leader (by far) in the Enterprise smartphone market, also was the leader in the consumer smartphone market. Maybe Changewave can update their Coporate numbers alongside these Consumer numbers to show us market share there. The only thing I have is from 1 year ago.

http://www.intomobile.com/2008/11/20/apple-iphone-3g-outpaces-palm-to-no-2-corporate-smartphone-spot.html

The lines of consumer and employee continue to blur (as do the lines
of work/life, what is this "balance" I hear about?) and IT
organizations are pressured from the bottom up to loosen policies and
support Mac and as a business tool. Call it "consumerization of IT",
call it what you will - people are tired of having a Mac experience
at home only to come to the office and be boxed into the traditional
IT-defined constraints. The users are taking over and we are now
seeing this parlay to smartphones. "I want something that works the
way I want, let's me be productive and connected in ways I like to
work and interact with the world... give me an iPhone IT!"

Perceptions have a lot to do with it - advertising is alive and well, yet people are also getting the opportunity to try both devises so it'll come down to usability or the best customer experience. I'm a Blackberry girl myself, but some people just love the iPhone! http://www.foviance.com/what-we-think/why-i-love-my-iphone/

"RIM's stranglehold on the smartphone market"?? I had to read this twice until I remembered that TUAW is a American site. Therefore, the rest of the planet is an irrelevance. What about the 50% of the smartphone market that's dominated by Symbian (and mainly Nokia). The figures don't seem to make room for them......

I'm not saying the figures are wrong, lets just put them in context.

Last I checked, Nokia had 49% of the smart phone market and everybody else was far behind. Was this a study of "others?"

BTW, my money is on Android.

Update.. there are several Android RDP programs... My bad.. Im spoilt w/ the 'app store' which makes finding things super easy.. Android is in fact quietly coming from behind..

The REAL asset Apple has is the 100 million credit cards on file where any of those 'customers' can click and buy and the CC info is already on file..

im not opposed to android..the 'Hardware' I think is better looking (When they get a more powerful proc, its a consideration.. but only IF it has good editing tools.. what program for Android does RDP (*not* vnc)? .. see, I think this is one of those 'useless' 100k apps.. There are SEVERAL for the iphone..

And multitasking works very well.. Task switching isnt the most elegant as a Pre, but it does work well.. I run my GPS tracking to track my runs while Im doing other things..

Certainly not a toy.

Whoopee Blackberry does email well. Big deal. It sure doesn't do RDP well (getting into your server.. think PCAnywhere..) nor does it do a TON of other high end administration tasks as well as an Iphone.. An Iphone is a computer in your pocket (and when you jailbreak it.. takes less then 10 secs w/ the free program you can easily find online.. it multi-tasks, free wifi (think miFi) tether, etc) I have the cash and ability to have any tool/tools/phones I want.. and the 3gs is simply the best. Period. And Im not talking about games, email or phone.. but the REALY heavy duty remote computer needs.. (remote ftp web page / php editing, rdp.. etc..) Blackberry blows nuts at trying to do remote database administration, maintenance etc.

It (Blackberry) too is amateur hour.

"and the iPhone can no longer be dismissed as a toy to BlackBerry's business device."

uh, yes it can.