MacDailyNews Take: Hope they don’t need to cut, copy, and paste.
Madway continues, “RIM has long been the dominant player in the corporate smartphone market, but has seen its market share erode as companies such as Apple make gains. In the third quarter, RIM’s global smartphone market share slipped more than 4 percentage points from a year-ago, according to industry tracker IDC.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Well, that’s one way to “outsell” Kin.
Now, let’s see: 25,000 for Dell and 89,000 for Microsoft = 114,000 units. Only 1,586,000 units to go to match the amount of iPhone 4s that Apple sold in its first three days on the market (1.7 million).
Alternate headline: Also-rans switch also-rans.
RIM. Dead company walking. – MacDailyNews, August 05, 2010
Out of the frying pan…
Not a big surprise here. Obviously, they were not going to switch to iPhones. Plus I believe they are developing their own phone, so Dell employees were going to get Phone 7 based handsets regardless. It impacts RIM more than anything.
Apple’s mobile machine keeps growing, while the non-iPhone sector has turned into a game of musical chairs.
Wonder how much of a break n Windows 7 licensing Balmer gave Mikey to do this.
Too little too late…the Titanic is going to sink anyway.
Microsoft and Dell: If they were a married couple (and they sort of are), can you imagine how tacky their living room decor would be?
“Madway” is the perfect name for someone covering this story.
That’s incredible that they would simply switch everyone without any kind of trial period. That’s one way to find out if your own dog food tastes good, I guess.
This is great news for M$. They can now announce that they have sold 110K phones (80+ of M$ and 25 for Dell).
Now if they give phones to their employees families they could “sell” even more.
Dell is following Microsoft in making all employee’s use Windows 7 phones.
We all know Dell has been demoted and HP has taken their top stop in worldwide computer shipments, so Dell is acting more compliant with their Redmond masters wishes.
One day Apple will release the Cracken and allow OS X to be easily installed on generic PC’s as they wouldn’t fear losing hardware sales anymore.
When that day comes, Microsoft (and Dell and HP) will begin to die.
^ apple fears losing hardware sales?
Dell used to rely upon Intel’s kickbacks in order to make their quarterly numbers. What do they do when Intel comes calling and tells them they need to buy Meego phones for their staff?
No wonder Dell isn’t making money if they’re footing the phone bills for 25,000 employees. Maybe, there are 1-2k executives and sales people that need ’em, but 25k? They’re paying for phones for janitors and line workers?
“MacDailyNews Take: Hope they don’t need to cut, copy, and paste.”
And I hope they don’t need to read emails, browse the internet or watch movies or listen to music because those windows 7 phones are good for nothing but a paper weight/
Just thinking, with the amount of foresight and common sense Dell has shown in recent years, that announcement bodes well for RIM’s future. Now Michael, make some stupid remarks about RIM shutting down and giving the money to the shareholders, and I’ll buy RIM shares.
I like the Blackberry torch. It is quite a good phone. A decent touch screen with pinch, apps, a decent web browser etc. I’d rather have that than a windows 7 phone, if I worked for Dell.
Don’t forget to include the two people and a dog who were waiting in line to purchase their Win7 phone in London:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36366/wp7-launch-a-damp-squib
Looks like it’s really going to take off in Europe.
Thanks MDN for letting me know that cut copy and paste are the most important features of a smart phone. Wasn’t until 3GS that apple had it either.
OK… and please explain then why it is OK for Windows 7 phone to not be able to do it, no matter when Apple introduced the feature?
I live in Austin and have several friends that work at Dell. They all want iPhones.
When iPhone came out, it was alone. Other smartphones of the time were a joke. A year later, it got copy-paste feature.
We are now two years later. Since the iPhone arrived, there is also HP’s WebOS (formerly Palm, for those with an ultra-short attention span), as well as Android, and RIM, too. They now ALL have the copy/paste feature.
So, two years after iPhone brought the feature, and almost two years after Android (and Web OS) came out, we have this Windows OS, and the feature set is same as a phone that came out 3 years ago (eternity in mobile phone world).
Would anyone here pay $500 for a laptop with 800×600 pixel display, 500MHz Pentium III processor and 510MB or RAM? Today?
No doubt another cramdown by MSFT in order to generate “sales” and “market share” for Windows 7 Phoney.
I think that Microsft is the perfect candidate to take share from RIM in the business segment.
The funny is that Blackberry is suddenly considered a business only company when all I have heard over the last years is how popular RIMs devices are among consumers.
HOW MUCH MONEY WAS DELL PAID?