The iPhone is very tough on the competition
Antenna problems and elitist image notwithstanding, the iPhone handset is the current star of the smartphone set, easily outdistancing any other single handset and causing problems for everyone else.
Pretty much every smartphone survey ever being done winds up giving the top prize to the iPhone. It is surely not the only smartphone on the planet, but it does seem to have exactly the right cachet for this particular place and time. Adherents of other phones will argue all day about how much better their handset is than the iPhone, but at the end of the day, the Apple handset is the best selling single smartphone in this country, bar none. A lot of recent noise has been made about the Android phones (please note the plural usage) and how well they are doing. Even collectively they have not caught up with the iPhone. Singly they haven’t stood a chance.
Now comes rumbling from the cell phone analytical community that RIM, the Blackberry folks, are beginning a swan dive. The iPhone has been chipping steadily away at the Blackberry smartphone lead for some time. Once in a resounding leadership position, RIM is down to just a few points of superior sales and usage and is still losing more ground every month. There is more negative opinion on Blackberry every day, too, according to an SFGate article. According to that story, the combination of the iPhone and all of those Android phones may be more than RIM can defend against.
The latest analysis confirms that Blackberry phones are now losing ground in the enterprise, the last bastion in which they hold sway. Long the smartphone for the boardroom, the Blackberry line is beginning to yield to the improving security and corporate IT control-ability of the sexier iPhone and its Android multitude followers. Look out, RIM, the new kids on the block are more than nipping at more than your heels.
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