Why Won’t You Dump Your BlackBerry For An Iphone?

by Robb Dunewood on March 7, 2008 · 102 comments

I am sure that everyone is going to be talking about the iPhone SDK for some time to come and and certainly the doom and gloomers that think that the BlackBerry is about to go the way of the Palm Pilot. I know, for a fact, however, that many a BlackBerry user is just as hooked on their BlackBerry as much as iPod users or hooked on their iPods and they simply won’t switch because they love the things so much.

There is no way that RIMarkable could have survived for 4 years if the BlackBerry didn’t have an awfully strong following and I just don’t see tens of millions of BlackBerry users dumping there devices simply because you will be able to get email from Exchange pushed to the iPhone 4-6 months or so from now.

Initially this post was going to be a top 10 list why most BlackBerry users won’t be switching any time soon, however, I couldn’t narrow the list down. So many RIMarkable readers send me emails every day about why the BlackBerry is for them that even if I could narrow the list down, it just wouldn’t seem right to do so.

That being said, I’ve decided to pose the question to the BlackBerry faithful.

Why won’t you dump your BlackBerry for an iPhone?

I know that some BlackBerry users will switch. Some BlackBerry users already have. To quote from a Heath Ledger movie, however, many BlackBerry users feel that the iPhone has “been weighed, the iPhone been measured, and the iPhone has been found wanting.”

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  • Burhan

    One more thing to note; which I think was mentioned once is that the iphone doesn’t provide any tactile feedback. This is important in so many ways; mainly:

    Tactile feedback means you can’t “feel” your way around the device; its a giant glass with a button at the bottom. Unlike a BB or pretty much every other phone on the market; they have at a minimum a ‘call’ and ‘end’ key. If you get a call on the iphone, you have to look at the screen and then point in a specific place to answer the call, its a great time waster on a *phone*, its okay on a media player that has different usage pattern.

    The other thing is the keyboard. I cannot thumb type on it like I can on my (current) qwerty device….so it really can’t do what BB is made to do from the start.

    If you watched the keynote where Jobs introduced the device, it was apparent that to use the device effectively; you need both hands. One to hold it, one to tap, and I don’t see how that can improve productivity over the Pearl that can be used very effectively by one hand.

    I won’t bother repeating what others have said regarding the IT/enterprise features of BB; just wanted to point out that a giant glass with a button != keyboard (or productivity).

    First time to visit your blog; good stuff.

  • Wifiguy

    This website loves the iPhone. It certainly is bringing alot of traffic to this site. Software is king and the Apple experience owns Blackberry.

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