BlackBerry Still On Top And The Gap Is Widening

According to a July ‘07 ChangeWave Alliance survey of of over 3000 participants, the BlackBerry is top dog in the smartphone industry with 38% of the over all market. RIM increased its commanding lead over number two and fading Palm which has slipped to 23%.

Whether you like the iPhone or not, you have to give Apple their just do. The iPhone came in a 4% market share. That may not sound like much compared to the BlackBerry’s 38%, however, seeing that this survey was conducted in July and the iPhone went on with 18 hours left to go in June, that is pretty darn good. No manufacturers other than RIM and Palm had double digit numbers.

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Written by Robb Dunewood on August 22nd, 2007 with 5 comments.
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#1. August 23rd, 2007, at 7:35 AM.

bwl zwei null » Unterwegs (mobil) im Internet surfen: dazu veröffentlicht Rob Dunewood aktuelle Zahlen zur Marktentwicklung bei den Smartphones. Demnach konnte BlackBerry (RIM) seine

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#2. August 23rd, 2007, at 1:04 PM.

I guess that goes to show that most people simply don’t like Win Mobile.

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#3. August 23rd, 2007, at 2:28 PM.

Windows Mobile devices remind of those fancy high priced sports cars that look really cool when you valet them, but, don’t really ride all that well and and constantly need to be serviced.

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#4. August 23rd, 2007, at 3:17 PM.

The table alludes to Win Mobile being a Blackjack (OK, e.g. means example, but it predisposes the respondent to think about that device), whereas the Blackberry has, what, 40+ models that make up the stable? All Nokia N and E series phones, as well as a number of Sony phones are Symbian smartphones, but there is no indication that these are part of the numbers.

For a strictly corporate environments, I would strongly agree with Blackberry dominance, but I question that remaining numbers as being severely skewed, or at the very least, biased by the way the data is presented.

However, for the majority of smaller business users and individuals, Treos and Win Mobile devices seem to me to be far more prevalent. I know very few people who buy a Blackberry for exclusive personal use (myself excluded - a 7290), but many with Win Mobile devices from HP, Palm, Samsung, HTC, and others, as well as E and N series Nokias, and Palm-based Treos.

There are liars, damn’d liars, and then there are statisticians…….

How about a look at the survey questions and respondents demographics to see the basis for the questionable output.

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#5. August 24th, 2007, at 12:26 AM.

To #4:

I agree with you that stats can be skewed to a great extent.

However, I believe the point of the survey was more to point out the trends of the manufacturers and not the multiple platforms (Blackberry vs all Win mobile). After quickly scanning their report, I don’t think the different platforms were even mentioned.

Also:

“The ChangeWave Alliance is a network of 11,000 highly qualified business, technology and medical professionals in leading companies of select industries. The Alliance is surveyed weekly on a wide range of business and investment research and intelligence topics.”

… it’s targeted directly towards the business user, but I don’t think they try to hide the population sample or use it to skew the data.

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