28 Oct
iPhone Is Nearing Blackberry’s Market Share
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Loading ...ChangeWave, a market research firm has released its latest quarterly consumer smart phone survey, which highlights market share trends of RIM, Apple and Palm. Apple’s iPhone has made a big jump in smart phone market share and has placed itself within a stricking distance of RIM’s Blackberry.
RIM (40%) remains the current market share leader among consumers, but its fallen 1-pt since the previous survey and is at its lowest level in two years.
Apple (30%) has seen a huge market share jump since the previous survey. Not only has the iPhone 3GS release enabled them to gain 5-pts overall — for the first time it has also placed them within striking distance of the number one spot in the consumer market.
Palm (7%) remains far behind in third place, but we note that this is the first survey in nearly two years where their share hasn’t fallen — and that’s a clearly encouraging sign.
More and more people are buying smartphones and this trend is growing quarter to quarter. And Apple’s iPhone continues to eat into RIM’s Blackberry market share, with 36% of survey respondents planning to purchase a smart phone in the next 90 days looking to purchase an iPhone, with only 27% of those interested in Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. The numbers represent a decline from the 44%-23% advantage held by Apple in the previous quarter, but as the report notes, the decline is due to a natural tapering off of enthusiasm after the iPhone 3GS launch and is actually a much smaller decline than was observed after the launch of the iPhone 3G last year.[Macrumors]
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