iPhone hits the world with a big shock. The old smart phone giant blackberry took a deep breath and can do nothing but see the share was swallowed by Apple as well as Android. A state from comscore.com reveal the smartphone market currently. Google’s Android is listed on the top with 38.1% share from March to May. Apple strengthened its #2 position with 26.6 percent of the smartphone market, up 1.4 percentage points. RIM ranked third with 24.7 percent share, a 4.2 percent drop from February of 2011 (note: the comScore numbers deal with March 2011 figures).
Total Smartphone Subscribers | Feb.2011 | May. 2011 | Point Change |
Google | 33.0% | 38.1% | 5.1 |
Apple | 25.5% | 26.6% | 1.4 |
Blackberry | 28.9% | 24.7% | -4.2 |
Statics from Comscore.com
Not only from the subscribers, we can also deduce it from the iphone cases and blackberry cases sales.
Despite the numbers and earnings figures they keep throwing out to the public, this is not latest bad piece as the Blackberry company is struggling to please customers by anonymous letters from employees which don’t express much confidence. While iPhone just completes the WWDC 2011, where all technologies are excited and astonished by the new concept which Steve Jobs brought out, iCould, Lion Os, Os 5 and so on. Moreover apple fanatics can’t wait to see the iPhone 5 released. At the same time, manufacturers in China are busy producing high quality cool iPhone cases at wholesale price.
It seems Blackberry already loses the game. However, compared with Apple, Blackberry has more models, and they are rooted on the customers’ heart. People just got familiar with the keyboard as well as RIM. Many celebrities were spotted using a blackberry in the street. To them, Blackberry means a lot, power, energy, charm and a lot. The blackberry keyboard just won’t lose the charm to most Blackberry fanatics currently. This thing is hard for young iPhone to conquer.
Then, if we get iPhone a keyboard, how will this game change? It’s not embedded on the iPhone. As an extension tool, you can choose to use it or not. The keyboard board will feature much longer than that on blackberry. It will be more convenient. With the keyboard, you can type it easily or choose virtual keyboard as you want. Stylish and cool. With this iPhone keyboard, you can feel the physic real keyboard and enjoy the big touch screen sensor at the same time. Blackberry lose the competition for sure.
You are correct; Android, Apple and Windows Phone 7 will eat into BlackBerry big-time.
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