So,  a(n) nut job irrational iPhone fanatic asked me what I am going to do with all my free time once RIMarkable folds because Research in Motion will be bankrupt by June and out of business before the end of the year and I 1have nothing left to talk about.  They challenged me to give them one reason why,  “the iPhone won’t continue to dominate in the States and further knock the lackberry into oblivion…”

Now, even the most die-hard of iPhone users that actually base their commentary in reality know that the iPhone doesn’t dominate the U.S. market and, in fact, is number two to the BlackBerry, but, because I think this will be the fodder for some very interesting comments, I’m going to give you 10 reasons why, with their current model, Apple and the iPhone will Never dominate the U.S. market.

  1. Just one carrier —  AT&T, for many, sucks is not an option…
  2. No iPhone with a physical keyboard —  iPhone diehards can say that the virtual keyboard on the iPhone is all that anyone ever needs until they are blue in the face.  The fact is that people who want physical keyboards don’t buy iPhones.
  3. The iPhone is not that great of a phone —  The network may have a bit to do with this, however, if your primary goal is making phone calls, their are much better options.
  4. The iPhone is expensive —  Smartphones in general are expensive but the iPhone really doesn’t have an inexpensive model (relatively speaking).
  5. The competition is catching up —  I will give it to Apple… When they introduced the iPhone they showed the world something they had never seen before.  The iPhone 3G and 3Gs, aren’t really all that much different than the original.  Web OS, Android, and dare I even say BlackBerry devices have done and continue to do a lot of catching up.
  6. The iPhone really hasn’t made a significant dent in corporate America — Corporations are allowing iPhones access to corporate email.  Corporations, on the other hand, have standardized on BlackBerry and Windows Mobile.
  7. No Single Killer App —  I know that the iPhone has over 100,000 applications but,  they don’t have BIS or BES Push email, PIN Messaging, or BlackBerry Messenger.  They don’t have Google Voice either which I think will move into the realm of BlackBerry Messenger one day…
  8. No Multitasking — Are you really a smartphone if you can only do one thing at a time?
  9. The iPhone is a closed garden —  When developers can effectively create applications they want to create on other platforms as compared to what Apple allows them to create on the iPhone, they will.  Google is coming after the iPhone and they just may have the legs to do it…
  10. I can think of countless other reasons why the iPhone won’t dominate here in the U.S., but, since RIMarkable is a BlackBerry blog, probably with a lot of BlackBerry users that feel as I do, I’ll let you enter the tenth reason in via the comments as I am sure that I really missed some good ones…