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“We have the results of two recent ChangeWave surveys – an April consumer survey on smart phone demand among consumers, and a May corporate survey on smart phone buying trends for businesses,” Jim Woods and Paul Carton report for Changewave Alliance.
;The continued rivalry among industry leaders has RIM (33%) holding onto its consumer market share lead over Palm (29%) – with Motorola (8%), Samsung (5%) and Nokia (3%) trailing by wide margins,” Woods and Carton report.
“In a startling finding, our April consumer survey shows one-in-four (26%) potential smart phone purchasers say they’ll opt for the iPhone – immediately catapulting Apple into a first place tie with industry leader Research in Motion (26%),” Woods and Carton report.
“Looking at future company purchase plans, it appears the Apple iPhone will also hit the business market with a splash. An impressive 9% of Alliance members who report their company is purchasing smart phones in the 3rd Quarter say they plan to buy the iPhone,” Woods and Carton report.
“Similar to the consumer side, Apple’s future gains do not appear like they’ll take a bite out of RIM’s corporate market share (26%; down 1-pt), but do appear set to hurt Palm (19%; down 3-pts) and Motorola (16%; down 3-pts),” Woods and Carton report.
MacDailyNews Take: Color us “un-startled.” Others, however…
@Zune Tang
What do you expect from your informal survey, why bite the hand that feeds? Secretly they all lust after one and you know it! The ‘IT guys’ shouldn’t be ignorant and ignore it, since they’ll end up supporting it for some exec anyway. Same thing happened with the BB back in the day it started out.
“They’re way overhyping this,” said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, a San Jose-based research firm. “The phone isn’t that good.”
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=5326b377-88fc-4737-b366-9144f17fca62&k=45367
“The iPhone IS a Mac !!”
The iPhone is NOT a Mac, and the more that misconception gets spread, the more the iPhone will be knocked for not having silly capabilities it was never meant to have like running quicken or sequencing the human genome.
So much for keeping the iPhone out of your corporation.
Yeah, didn’t all the “experts” predict in the past-wait, at late as this week-that the iPhone would bomb in the workplace?
If it isn’t allowed in the corporate world, there’ll be more pissed off people than any IT shop wants to deal with.
Damn.
If I can’t sequence the human genome on my cell phone, forget it.
Maybe I’m just not up on all this new math, but wouldn’t 1-in-4 people be 25%? How did they turn that into 26%?
Math problems? Maybe they used monkey-ballmer to do the math?
> iPhone is not a mac. It will run OS X or something, but its not a Mac. Can I use the iPhone to write reports, work on spreadhseets, edit graphics and get my work done? Hell, no! Its just a glorified telephone.
You’re dead wrong. iPhone is more than a “glorified telephone” because businesses (large and small) can create web-based apps to complement their business practices. This can be done much more simply and elegantly than on other so-called “smart” phones, because of OS X and Safari. All the corporate data will safety reside on secured servers, and users will have complete access through wireless (wi-fi or mobile phone network). That’s what iPhone offers, not writing reports or using spreadsheets (the proper mobile tool for that is called a laptop computer).
And that’s what iPhone offers that no one else can match. Once again, Apple has designed itself into a position of offering a product not available anywhere else.
OK, we need to take a reality pill!
A Mac is only a Mac because it has been endowed with the soul of OS X – namely the full-fat, high-caffeine version Mac OS X which is open, highly extensible and capable of running a wide variety of applications leveraging a full range of APIs.
The iPhone is what it is because it has the soul of a repackaged version of OS X – I don’t care if you call it OS X Lite or OS X Mobile or (stick a feather in its cap and) call it Macaroni; it does not have all the APIs or extensibility of full-fat OS X, nor does it require that capability.
In reality, the Mac and iPhone are OS X platform devices which deliver different functionality to different audiences.
The simple rationality of this viewpoint can be summed up by asking the following question…
When Apple deliver an automotive control system to BMW (to replace iDrive), Mercedes, Audi or whomever, will the car be a Mac?
The simple answer is NO!: it will simply be a car in which the control of a narrow range of functionality and driving experience is – hopefully – enhanced by an OS X platform.
However, just as Macs powered by OS X work in a heterogeneous environment, the lightweight version of OS X on iPhone will work with both Macintosh and Windows client systems and – via Web 2.0, AJAX et al – in the wider world of information management.
In the future, the automotive version of OS X will work seamlessly with iPhone, and it will work with Macintosh and Windows laptops: use synchronisation in your car and the OS X platform device will take your diary and address book and use it to feed the OS X-powered SatNav with where you need to be and what time you need to leave whilst the phone sends TMC reports to help you avoid the traffic.
@ Crabapple
??? What are you talking about? Must not have been me, but one of my legions of admirers.
I thought the iPhone wasn’t a smartphone?
@ Ian Adams,
By using Windows98 Calculator on a Pentium 3?
I am actually starting to feel sorry for RIM. First, all the patent trouble they recently went through, and now, They are going to have to TRY and compete with the iPhone. If I had any shares of RIM, I would sell them before next Friday, the 29th.
I work for the Feds – and our Congressionally approved boss has informed our IT dept that when the iPhone is available – he wants one! No ifs, ands, or buts, what the Boss wants, he gets. So they’ve gotta figure it out! – and we’re mostly a Microsoft shop – Oh, the sweet pain they’ll be in come the 29th!
ChrissyOne, if every schmuck who fakes a post under your name is an admirer, you have a better popularity rating than the presnit shrub hisself. have you considered running?
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MW: all we are saying, is “give” Chrissy a chance! lol…
I thought ChangeWave was a hair salon in Queens.