iPhone crushes the competition. All of them.
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Filed in AT&T, Apple, Handsets, News
Everyone knows that the iPhone has been selling at a record pace, but when you see numbers like these, it really puts things in perspective. Love it or hate it, Apple has a winner on their hands. The company’s first entry into the mobile phone market managed to snag 27% of all smartphone sales for the 3rd quarter of 2007. It outsold all Windows Mobile devices, and heartily crushed Symbian sales. The only manufacturer with more phones sold was RIM, which owes most of its success to the enterprise market. Corporate sales are nothing to scoff at, but it’s pretty safe to say that the iPhone has all but cornered the consumer smartphone arena.
I can’t even lie, I’m one of them die hard Blackberry users who has a strong interest in playing with an iPhone for a month or two.
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Awright RIM! BB rules!
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OK, but 3rd quarter 2007, the iPhone hadn’t hit Europe, had it? Or if it had, it was just beginning. So, this chart is only really representative of US sales, for which OSes like Symbian–despite global dominance–because AT&T is the only carrier with S60 phones and even at they, they only have two.
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Holy crap, I have some disjointed sentence structure. Still, you get the idea.
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So they’re call it a Smartphone now? :Royeyes:
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“iphone crushes the competition–all of them”. Yet in your story, it indicates that RIM is still on top?! Forgive my confusion…
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The headline should be “RIM crushes the competition.” But I really don’t expect anything but sub-par journalism from this entire site. I love my iphone but lets not get ahead of ourselves. I would like to see the numbers for the world not just the North American market. I’m sure the numbers wouldn’t look as rosy. Hate to break it to you, but corporate sells count just as much as consumer sales. You also have to market the shit out of consumer goods. I wonder what the marketing budget was for apple compared to RIM? You see a iphone commercial every 30 min.
If you are going to write articles like this, please hire someone that knows a little about the business side of things and not just the techie side?
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sales are only high cos of that nice apple logo on the back of it. the phone is nice and i think the design and touch technology is cool no lie, but lets be honest with ourselves; there’s nothing really that overly spectacular about it when compared to other price comparable phones.
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16, truly if you want worldwide numbers then Nokia beats RIM. These are good numbers for comparing sales but you do have to remember the consumer vs. corp. sales. And RIM does spend money on marketing and training for BES.
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well the iphone does a great job in bridging the gap between a legitimate smart phone and a dummy phone. its a nice combo of both. the more i played withthe phone, the more i like my nokia n80 den again i have more smartphone needs than others. but the numbers are impressive. and its a good product.
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BGR is going downhill. Too bad.
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Hmm I didnt know the iphone qualified as a smart phone.
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iPhone is not a smartphone…
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Dont you hate all the haters that come to the site to just complain. The whole point of the article is to say how a company who released their very first phone has done. Like the article said, BB are nice but owes a lot of it success to corporate places.
When people dont see something they like, their immediate response is to complain. I wish BGR did the same thing engadget does with the ranking system.
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We *are* the world! We’ve even got a song to prove it!
Jingo bells, jingo bells, jingo all the way!
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interesting figures… thats just q3-07 sales… id like to see figures for currently activated smartphones from, say, 2005-present. im a diehard blackberry user, but look at total units in operation. something may change in the market… and, most people cant get full work functionality from an iphone… its fun, but not entirely practical without many needed applications only currently avail on bb and windows mobile devices.
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16 coming through roofless said something about global sales….and i think that’s pretty important. seems bb’s are just hitting the china mkt, but isn’t that with a full-qwerty? what if iphone hits the china mkt with a digital keyboard that can be manipulated for more than qwerty? any language for that matter?
i actually love bb’s for years now, and have no need for iphone’s, but in the overall smartphone mkt, who will really win? i really don’t know…
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Iphones are a novelty item. When i need a web page loaded quickly and an email punched out with ease I will stick with my blackberry
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Just to point out one thing, I still see a ton more blackberries on campus than I do iPhones. This is at the University of Texas.
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I have a question, where do these stats come from. If there really are that many iPhone users are out there, where the hell are they? According to the figures one might see iPhones all over the place but frankly I do not see any. My guess is that users of these phones are concentrated in a few states.
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And the pro apple bias screams for attention.
I agree it sould say blackberry tops us phone sales for the 3rd quarter anpple takes a close second. You guys have asmuch credibaility as cnn or nbc with brian williams. Youi might aswell read fake news.
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Blackberries have been around for *years* whereas the iPhone has only been around for a scant six months. It’s not surprising that you wouldn’t see more Blackberries.
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wow, there’s a surprise, a story that says apple was number 2 behind RIM and all the RIM people join the apple hating club. why so defensive?
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yeah just chill its not like they are crapping on blackberries just saying how the iphone has done without any corporate sales i mean look at the blackberry you think that many consumers buy it compared to businesses buying 10-100,000 devices? please stop
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Hmmm sounds like Apple just kicked an entire industry in the pants, this should be applauded by all as an opportunity for the industry to actually innovate rather than take incremental baby steps
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