“I walked into my local AT&T Wireless store on Saturday fully expecting and prepared to get a Blackberry 8820. My Blackberry 8800 died while I was in London last week, and both Visa and American Express tried to protect me from fraud by disallowing my attempts to order a new phone over the web. Hence, my face-to-face visit with AT&T,” Matt Asay blogs for CNET.
Matt Asay blogs for CNET’s “The Open Road,” which emphasizes “the business and politics of open source.” Asay is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management.
“Unfortunately for Research in Motion, maker of the Blackberry, the in-store price for the 8820 was the same as the iPhone. I deliberated for all of three seconds and walked out with the iPhone,” Asay reports.
“The iPhone ‘just works,’ and then some… I thought I wouldn’t be able to type on the iPhone without tactile feedback. I was wrong. I’m actually faster on the iPhone than I ever was on the Blackberry, and that’s with only an hour of ‘training,'” Asay reports. “I thought I would miss a host of things with my Blackberry, but I haven’t. Instead, I’ve been blown away by the innovative use of gestures and the user interface. I resisted the iPhone for a year or so, but looking back it was inevitable that I’d end here.”
Asay reports, “The iPhone is an amazing device. It was inevitable that I’d find my way to it, just as it’s inevitable that it will continue to take more and more market share, eventually breeding lower-end devices that will change the way we use mobile ‘phones.'”
Full article here.
Many people will be shocked at how quickly RIM’s Blackberry is supplanted by Apple’s iPhone.
Welcome…. it’s a beautiful thing. Just surprised the price was the same…. thought people were bashing it for being priced higher than anything else.
Matt must like banner ads and jumping bunnies for his full-blown internet experience.
“breeding lower-end devices”?
Unless Apple has an “iPhone Shuffle” in the works, I think the only direction we can go from here is up, while the only direction current lower end devices can go is OUT.
You missed the best comment in his article…………..
“My Blackberry-to-Mac sync has been hit or miss for the past year (though I’ve been testing a beta of the new PocketMac and it is quite good) and I’m fed up.”
A new Pocket Mac is coming?
@ MacDailyNews Take: Many people will be shocked at how quickly RIM’s Blackberry is supplanted by Apple’s iPhone.
And yet, many will not.
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“iphone bitch!!!”
“A new Pocket Mac is coming?”
I suspect that is 3rd party software for syncing; like Missing Sync.
So he walked in for a rim job…
@LiM
So he walked in for a rim job…
…and walked out feeling-up the hot new beyotch!
iPhone Beyotch!
Wow, you mean that Mac Heads are buying iPhones. Who would of thunk it.
Just my $0.02
the blackberry is a toy compared to the iPhone. It’s like comparing a palm pilot to a laptop.
Deliberated for all of three seconds?
What took so long?…
MacDailyNews Take: Many people will be shocked at how quickly RIM’s Blackberry is supplanted by Apple’s iPhone.
comedy, pure comedy. everyone on this board will be shocked how much RIM’s platform grows in the coming years. it’s not a binary one or the other. i guess you guys will never see that given the size of the market, and the fact that you are blinded by fanboyism. but a rational person will watch the number of devices both companies sell in the coming years. flame away.
You mean the “too expensive to be successful” iPhone costs the same as a Blackberry device. I’m shocked…!
Poor crazylegs… living in denial is such an ugly, ugly thing.
The thing is, we HAVE seen the sales figures and the iPhone is already eating into RIM’s market share like there’s no tomorrow.
Coupled with the fact that the iPhone is what, one year old? it’s mightily impressive that iPhone has surpassed the “all others” category, too.
Then again, rational people look at actual numbers and figures and aren’t frightened nor resentful of them.
> everyone on this board will be shocked how much RIM’s platform grows in the coming years.
Sure, RIM’s Blackberry will grow. Apple’s iPhone will just grow faster (as it has been since introduction).
Don’t assume lower end devices can’t compete just because Apple has patents on multitouch and gestural interfaces. If lower end manufacturers can get it through their retarded heads that the interface and the overall experience are key to making a functional and attractive product, things will come along. You can still have a touch screen phone and not have to use multitouch. Also, licensing these “patents” may be a possibility if Apple never tries for the low end market. Sure, these are big ifs but it’s still within the realm of possibility, especially outside the US.
sixvodkas – great response! april 2 will be interesting when RIM reports again. RIM just upped their guidance and will add over 2 million new subs in the last quarter. yup, iphone is really eating into sales…
by the way, iphone is the absolute best platform out there without a doubt BUT you guys need to recognize the market is too vast for a single player and the pie is growing quickly. this is my only point.
@ldrhawke
You missed the best comment in his article…………..
“My Blackberry-to-Mac sync has been hit or miss for the past year (though I’ve been testing a beta of the new PocketMac and it is quite good) and I’m fed up.”
A new Pocket Mac is coming?
PocketMac is Blackberry’s own Blackberry-to-Mac sync software, not another hardware device!
He should have gone to France where he could have bought an legally unlocked iPhone which then could be used anywhere in the world with a local SIM card and not have to pay the exorbitant international roaming charges.
I thought the best comment was the multiple use of the word “inevitable”.
He gets it. Apple is changing everything…again….just like the did with the Mac, then the iPod, then with OSX and now with the iPhone and its derivatives.
@ Crazylegs: Absolutely correct.
@ Sixvodkas: I guess after Sixvodkas, you are likely to spew crap. Apple hasn’t eaten into Rim’s marketshare. Rim is growing. Duh. Apple has eaten into the Motorola’s, Palm’s, Nokia’s and Sony’s marketshare…..
“Sure, RIM’s Blackberry will grow. Apple’s iPhone will just grow faster “
Yes, RIM will grow as fast as DEC did after the introduction of IBM PC.
He could have gone to France – and why not?
However, as unlocking is a 3 minute process for free, why bother?
To settle the bickering, iPhone is causing the smart phone market to be consolidated into only 2 devices – the iPhone and the Crackberry. Look at the mp3 market now after several years of iPod domination. I think it will take a long time for the iPhone to overtake RIM in pure numbers just because of the number of Crackberrys already sold. BUT, by the start of 2009, there will be more iPhones sold per quarter than Crackberrys.
iCal it beotch!!!