Will BlackBerry kill the iPhone?
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversJust a few short weeks after the Mac trounced competitors in a customer satisfaction survey, the iPhone has repeated the same trick for Apple in the smartphone market.
The iPhone has taken first place in a consumer survey by J D Power published last week, dominating all but one of the categories: physical design, ease of operation, features, operating system, battery aspects and overall satisfaction.
Most iPhone owners won't be surprised to hear it came last in battery performance.
In contrast, RIM's BlackBerry - the competitor against which the iPhone is most often measured - scored highest in battery life but performed poorly in other categories.
According to a recent report by NPD, the BlackBerry has overtaken the iPhone in unit sales for the Q1 2009. RIM has been operating an aggressive buy-one-get-one US campaign and its sales have surged 15 per cent in the first quarter, though presumably at lower than normal hardware margins.
The news will no doubt prompt some doomsayers to predict the death of the iPhone or some other such nonsense and call for Apple to respond immediately with a host of new models.
Assuming it needs to, what could Apple do to drive up iPhone sales? The two obvious answers are to expand the iPhone product portfolio and to end their exclusive deals with carriers. Both ideas have had some coverage in recent weeks in the press and blogosphere.
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Comments(4)
the blackberry bold is far better for email than the ipod. at least that much is true
the iphone is a lot better than any blackberry. the only two that come close are the
storm and the bold.
the iphone has the real internet, not the mobile crappy
version.
appstore - rim copied this idea, but it is still not as viable as the
appstore
eas - exchange active sync, if you want push on your blackberry you
need a bes, which costs a lot of money, and requires a cal for each device. eas does not
require anything other than an exchange server
games - even though not a big
thing the iphone is becoming a decent mobile gaming platform. nothing as fancy as psp or a
ds, but still.
all in one - i don't need a ipod and a smart phone. my iphone
is both. with 16gb of storage i can watch movies, listen to music and have a smart phone
in one device.
the blackberry however does have superior battery life, and
supports pgp encryption.
bias survey that was sponsored by mac. amazingly, all apple products were on top. go
figure!!!! there are far suppiorer phones out there than iphones, blackberry being one of
them....hence the backlash from apple.
i own a 3g ipod nano, and a zune--sound from zune for me is better. as 4 iphone, my
service does not offer, and do not need it enough to switch, and if my service does get
it, will not switch--i know too many people who say as a phone, its not so good, now as an
apple toy, it is fantastic, me, i want a phone to be a reliablee phone . . .
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By JJ on 08.05.2009 - 05:05