“Apple has ousted Research in Motion’s BlackBerry as the top smartphone for mobile workers, according to the latest research from wireless specialist iPass,” James Rogers reports for TheStreet.
“The company’s survey of more than 2,300 employees at 1,100 businesses reveals that more than 45% of mobile workers now use iPhones, up from 31% last year,” Rogers reports. “BlackBerry users, however, slipped to 32%, down from 35% in 2010.”
Rogers reports, “Google Android phones, it said, almost doubled their presence in the business market between 2010 and 2011, clinching a 21% market share and pushing Nokia, Symbian out of third place.”
MacDailyNews Take: Businesses that settle for Android devices deserve the insecurity and annual anti-virus subscription costs that such a shortsighted and stupid choice incurs.
Rogers reports, “Speaking during the [company’s October 18, 2011] earnings conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that 93% of the Fortune 500 are either deploying or testing the device, up from 91% in the prior quarter. ‘iPhone continues to be adopted as the standard across the enterprise,’ he said, noting that Lowe’s(LOW_) is rolling out over 40,000 iPhones with a custom-built application that lets employees check inventory levels.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Boom!
• “[iPhone is] kind of one more entrant into an already very busy space with lots of choice for consumers … But in terms of a sort of a sea-change for BlackBerry, I would think that’s overstating it.” – RIM half-CEO Jim Balsillie, February 2007
• “The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards. I’m sorry, it really is. I’m not making this up.”- RIM half-CEO Mike Lazaridis, May 2008
• “We’ve now passed RIM. And I don’t see them catching up with us for the foreseeable future. They must move beyond their area of strength and comfort into the unfamiliar territory of trying to become a software platform company… RIM has a high mountain ahead of them to climb.” Apple CEO Steve Jobs, October 18, 2010
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BOOM!
That is what is was going to say. 🙂
I can’t see my iPad screen very well due to the blood all over it.
In other news, Hell is now serving snow cones.
The most exciting mobile trend is a Smith Corona typewriter on a cart. I’m not making this up!
Nice.
:-))
Good one Twisty!
Not exactly on topic, but I find it annoying when the results of surveys, sales data, etc are reported and results for companies like Apple, Rim, Nokia, etc are compared with Android. I’ve never seen a smart phone with the brand name Android on it.
Apple started the squeeze on Blackberry and now I guess we will have some juice for the celebration.
Now that’s some sea-change I can believe in! I’ll have another black-berry colada please…
Not mentioned here is the amount of iPod Touch units that are being sold as POS (Point Of Sale) terminals in stores and restaurants all over the world. When that is factored in, the assault is staggering.
Make believed…..
This is interesting news, but the the constantly infantile and excessively disparaging tone of the MDN take is getting very tiresome. I know this site is about evangalism, but constantly making insulting comments about people who choose non-Apple products is unnecessary. One can wax rhapsodic about Apple
and sling jibes at rivals while avoiding childish insults.
After half a lifetime ridiculing people who use malware riddled computing devices, it is hard not to laugh at stupid purchases.