If you listen to the hype machine that is Apple as well as the drones with a voice that hang on every word that comes out of the mouth of Steve Jobs, you might think that the iPhone is every other smartphone’s tail so royally, that they should just pack it up and not even try anymore.
That being said, comScore just released a report for U.S. smartphone market share growth during the 3 month period between October and January, and, once again, the BlackBerry has outpaced the iPhone… Significantly so…
As you can see for the chart, Apple stayed almost flat with just 0.3% growth in their iPhone subscribers base. RIM had over 5, almost 6 times the growth of Apple increasing its BlackBerry subscribers by 1.7%.
Google is actually the most impressive in list growing its subscriber base from 2.8% to 7.1% while both Palm and Microsoft lost share dropping 2.1% and 4% respectfully.
The future of the Android platform will be an interesting one. It is appealing to me because of the features and applications and it will stretch across all service providers and not just Apple. I don’t think Android is there for me quite yet. I thought the Droid might be able to get me to move away from my Blackberry, but it was too big and heavy and the keyboard left a lot to be desired.
I’m certainly not ready to give up my Blackberry keyboard.
I wonder how the distribution of the percentage that Android has taken away from RIM and Apple would have resulted for both companies if it didn’t exist…Android is coming on strong.
@ Eric…I second that, except I “will” move over to the N1 when it’s released on VZW.
I am tempted by the N1 bluehorseshoe. Just the idea of typing on that damn virtual keyboard. I have an iPod Touch and I’ve never gotten use to typing on that thing. I am going to try out the N1 when it comes out… if I can find one to try first. Maybe I can find someone with the TMO N1 to try? I can’t see myself buying one without trying it out.
When is Android going to have a consolidated inbox like Blackberry has? That seems like such a small thing, but they don’t have it.
every device on this planet should have at least the option to make your inbox universal (or consolidated)…it’s one of my favorite things about my blackberry. Having this feature on other platforms would let me consider switching to other platforms. why don’t others enable this?
Why do BlackBerry users never understand that Apple releases 1 device on 1 network per year. Let’s look at this report for the 3 months when the iPhone 4 comes out.
Why do iPhone users feel the need to rationalize why they are number two…
Maybe Apple follows the age old principle of,”Do one thing and do it really well!”? Still, there is no reason why Apple cannot see beyond AT&T as a provider. At least add TMO! Give people some kind of choice. AT&T is the one provider I will not ever use again.
Whi can’t RIM just update the OS so we can get more apps and a faster browser! Then Apple won’t have a prayer!
I just wanted to point out that it’s misleading to say that “RIM had over 5, almost 6 times the growth of Apple increasing its BlackBerry subscribers by 1.7%.” If you look at the changes in market share as related to the original market share, the iPhone saw a 1.2% increase in its market share and RIM saw a 4.1% increase in its market share, which means that the growth of RIM’s market share is about 3.4 times that of the iPhone, not 5 or 6 as you stated. In addition, these numbers don’t give us the whole picture because they don’t tell us how many smartphone subscribers there are in January 2010 versus October 2009. Perhaps this is nitpicking, but as it stands the analysis is an incorrect one of incomplete data.