“We predict that it won’t be long until Apple overtakes RIM as the leader in this hotly contested (and vitally important, in context of the Web’s shift from PC to phones) market,” MacManus reports.
“RIM’s market share is creeping down, while Apple’s surges up. ChangeWave puts RIM at 40% of market share, but Apple is now just 10% points behind at 30%. This was mainly due to the the iPhone 3GS release, which saw Apple gain [5 percentage points] since June,” MacManus reports. “Perhaps the most telling statistic in the ChangeWave report, also happens to be the most qualitative. 74% of the iPhone owners that ChangeWave polled reported that they’re “Very Satisfied” with their iPhone. Less than half of RIM device owners said that.”
Full article here.
Count me in as one of those satisfied customers…
Me too.
And I’m still on the 1st gen.
As am I, although I would like to upgrade to the 3GS. Waiting on my company to clear it.
It’d be interesting to see what marketshare the Android devices grab collectively, now that the hardware running it is getting better…
The iPhone is a fad. The BlackBerry is for serious people that do serious things, not losers who like to play with their phones all day.
iPhone is the phone for women and children.
BlackBerry is the phone for real men. Strong, focused men who don’t have time for games and watching videos and browsing the web with their phones. Men who play on a field or in the bedroom, not with touchscreens. The skin of their fingertips are so coarse from all the hard work that they don’t even register as touches on a capacitive screen. They need buttons. They turn to BlackBerry to get the job done.
R2 your a MORON!!!!!!!
Work smarter, not harder!!!!!!!!
@R2
…and 25 years ago your dad was quoted saying “the mouse is just a fad.”
I love my iPhone 3GS more every day. Having lots of fun and haven’t even scratched the surface of its possibilities. Boss just went on a biz trip last weekend and didn’t bring laptop — iPhone better, easier, faster. Flight Update app helpful.
Little issue came up, took computers & iPhones to Apple Store yesterday, Genius fixed everything lickity split. Over the top excellent customer service, fun to go to Apple Store, buzz is great, everybody knows us, everybody happy learning and finding solutions to any question.
Drooling over the new iMac 27″ i7, will come into store this month, looking forward to bringing it home.
The iPhone is a wonderful portal to the incredibly satisfying World of Apple to new initiates.
@R2
In other words, your company doesn’t support the iPhone so you are stuck with a BlackBerry.
Wonderful R2. I love it. Nice work!! You pulled one!
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R2, love ya.
I once had a wife whose excuse for no hanky panky was “your fingers are too rough”.
That was before the iPhone of course – these days I could just point out that: “My iPhone loves my gentle strokes, so I’ll just go out and find a human who feels the same”.
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I love my BlackBerry but the iPhone is a far superior device!
For all of you idiots that are commenting negatively towards R2’s post, he’s using this thing called “satire” to make a point.
The one app not found in the App store is “A Sense of Humor.”
Or, to paraphrase your post a bi, R2t . . .
“Mommy, look at my peepee! Mommy, I have a peepee! M-O-M-M-Y, pay attention to me! M-A-W-M-M-M-Y! I’m going to go eat worms if you don’t pick me up!”
My favorite line to Blackberry users, “Wanna see some HD video I shot in Fiji of a shark dive?”
Chumps.
First, Blackberry has no OS. Mail works okay, but not as well as the iPhone. Period. And I used an Blackberry for years. Second, Blackberry does not have a core OS that can compete with the iPhone. Done.
Next, those HORRIBLE Blackberry commercial they’ve been running in the baseball playoffs – ditch them! Please!!! I hate the people depicted in them. I hate the bad cover of the Beatles’ music. They’re all a desperate attempt to look cool, which they aren’t. The commercials are totally ineffective, and in only one instance through the campaign show how a Blackberry is of any use. And that fro-haired, crack-addicted dancer in their commercials? Useless. She drives me crazy. God, I HATE these commercials. They’re spending a ton of money to look stupid.
It’s a lost cause, RIM.
R2/DJ
Yea, he pulled alright – his wire.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, R2. Great job.
Beleaguered MAC’s little sissy I-Phone is for girly men. And dorks.
Your potential. Our passion.™
@1/24/84,
Sorry to be dense, but I don’t get it.
Birdbath.
MDN MW: windows
Very satisfied with my iPhone! Can’t wait until summer of 2010 to see what’s released next!
I usually don’t like “fake troll” humor, but in the case of R2’s latest post, I’ll make an exception.
For those (nearly everyone) who missed the reference, R2 is playing off a famous print article from way, way back that explained that DOS was for real computing and that the Mac was a toy. It said exactly what R2 said, that real men did their computing on DOS and the Mac was for women and children.
Bravo, R2. Bravo. (clap, clap)
——RM
@ Lord Robin and R2
Yes, I believe the DOS community used to refer to Apple Computers, and the, GUI as Macintrash. I believe that Unix people are a bit more charitable since OSX includes Terminal.
Nice parody.
AppleJack, Lord Robin, & R2
I concur, and—speaking of “toy” computers, which platform has the most games … hmm …
“Fake troll” humor?
That’s just sick. You MAC sheep have some serious issues.
Your potential. Our passion.™