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Business Insider has shared a chart which shows quarterly sales figures for each phone since the iPhone was introduced. “They were neck in neck for a while, but the iPhone release in June 2010 changed everything — iPhone sales took off while Blackberry sales leveled off, then started to dive,” Rosoff and Angelova report.

BBC shared this interesting Ofcom research firm’s report that surveyed 2073 adults and 512 teenagers in UK, which showed around 32% adults preferred using the iPhone as their primary handset while 37% percent of teens chose to carry a BlackBerry smartphone. 32% of adults preferred using the iPhone as their primary handset while 37% percent of teens chose to carry a BlackBerry smartphone. BGR reported that around 37% of adults considered themselves “addicted” to their smartphones while 60% of teenagers admitted being addicted.

Ofcom’s study also looked at how people use the internet via home fixed line connections. Its analysis was based on a survey of 2,481 adults who have access to broadband. Among those who took part, the most popular task was sending and receiving email (89%).

More people turned to their computer to do online banking (61%) than used it to watch television (45%). Online privacy was a concern for the minority of people surveyed, with worries appearing to grow as people got older. Among 16 to 24-year-olds, 6% said they had concerns about their privacy on the internet. That figure rose to 13% of 55 to 64-year-olds.

[via - BBC]

Wow… the makers of Blackberry went into a denial mode when they first saw Steve Jobs demoing the iPhone in 2007. Steve Jobs explained that Apple was trying to create a smartphone that would leapfrog the competition by at least 5 years. With so many touchscreen mobile phones in the market today, we wouldnt even believe how dull it used to be just 3 years back when there was only one player in the market, Apple’s iPhone.

This story was shared by one of the employees of RIM, the makers of Blackberry who shed some light into what really went on inside RIM, Microsoft and likely every other cellphone maker on the planet, right after Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced iPhone to the world on January 9, 2007. via – Macdailynews

All these companies were fighting over what amounts to overgrown PDAs with phones and wireless stacks strapped on. Everyone assumed power density was no where even close to what was needed for general computing, that a full featured browser and heavy duty Internet services were impossible due to bandwidth and latency. Take a look at how our Java expert groups named standards, how people at the time talked about what features smart phones should have, and its clear that no one thought an iPhone was possible. Even Danger, which eventually [led to] Windows Phone 7 and Android, was just working on a better Blackberry.

The iPhone did many amazing things, but what stands out in my mind was how it proved that these assumptions were flat-out wrong beyond any reasonable doubt. Apple pretty gave everyone the finger and said, “Fsck you guys we can build your distant impossible future today.”

I left RIM back in 2006 just months before the IPhone launched and I remember talking to friends from RIM and Microsoft about what their teams thought about it at the time. Everyone was utterly shocked. RIM was even in denial the day after the iPhone was announced with all hands meets claiming all manner of weird things about iPhone: it couldn’t do what they were demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life, etc. Imagine their surprise when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it. It was ridiculous, it was brilliant.

I really don’t think you’re giving Apple enough credit here. They did something amazing that many very prominent people in the industry thought was either impossible or at least a decade away, and they did it in a disgustingly short time frame.

[via - Macdailynews]

BTW, do you remember this video? If you havent… please please spare just 2.3min )

iPhone 4 continues to lead the smartphone pack in consumer satisfaction, reports Changewave. ChangeWave asked 1212 people who purchased smartphones in the past six months to rate their models. The iPhone comes in first place with 77% of those who purchased one saying they are “very satisfied” with their selection.

The following chart shows the percentage who said they were Very Satisfied with the smart phone they’d purchased – broken out by manufacturer:

Motorola comes in a close second: 71 percent of recent purchasers report being “very satisfied.” HTC scores third with 63 percent; Samsung, fourth with 45 percent; and RIM, fifth with 44 percent.

“The results show the continuing threat the iPhone poses to the rest of the industry,” writes Paul Carton, ChangeWave vice president of research.

Most surprising was that one in three non-iPhone buyers surveyed said they would have bought Apple’s device if it was available on their network. Around 20 percent were undecided and 46 percent said they would have stuck with their choice.

[via - Changewave]

This is hilarious. I found this on csectioncomics. I have been an iPhone users for almost 3 years now and almost agree to this analogy. )

[via - csectioncomics]

Apple has finally surpassed RIM in global phone shipments last quarter. During this year’s third quarter, 15.4 million iPhones were shipped globally compared to only 12.4 million Blackberries, the researchers at Strategy Analytics reported. Macworld went on to report these staggering numbers:

With the shipments, Apple grabbed a 15.4 percent share of the market during the period, while RIM finished well behind with a 12.3 percent share. Top dog in the kennel, though, remains Nokia with 26.5 percent of the worldwide market.

“It wasn’t really a terrible loss for RIM, though, as the entire smartphone market grew 78 percent overall,” explains Darrell Etherington at Gigaom. “And though Apple did surpass RIM in sales volume (and seems poised to ship even more in the future, since supply constraints provided a choke point in 2010), it still has a long way to go before it approaches Nokia, the reigning king of the smartphone hill.”

The gloomy news for RIM won’t be abating soon, either, according to The Economic Times. The company isn’t making any inroads into the consumer market. “The lack of a strong ecosystem supporting RIM’s platform in the consumer market is one of our key concerns,” Sameet Kanade, a financial analyst with Northern Securities, observes in a note to clients on Tuesday.

“We believe the potential adoption of the iPhone by key RIM enterprise users may have a domino effect, creating further market disruption for RIM,” Kanade asserts.

[via - Macworld]

Macsimum News covered this interesting research data from Crowd Science – Nearly 40% of Blackberry users continue to prefer Apple’s iPhone as their next smartphone purchase, but a third of them would also switch to the Android operating system.

The Crowd Scientists also found Android users rivaling iPhone users in loyalty, with about 90% of each user group planning to stick with their current brand when buying their next phone. Asked specifically if they’d swap their present phone for Google’s new Android-based Nexus One, 32% of Blackberry users said “yes,” compared with just 9% of iPhone users. This figure zoomed to 60% for users of smartphones not made by Blackberry or Apple.

“These results show that the restlessness of Blackberry users with their current brand hasn’t just been driven by the allure of iPhone,” says John Martin, CEO of Crowd Science. “Rather, Blackberry as a brand just isn’t garnering the loyalty seen with other mobile operating systems.”

Crowd Science’s methodology applies sampling and research techniques to online populations, allowing for real-time results. Indeed, a significant event affecting the research—the debut of Nexus One on January 5—occurred midway through the Dec. 24. 2009 to Jan. 21, 2010 study period. Rather than being a disruptive factor, however, the Crowd Scientists were able to measure how the launch affected the attitudes of respondents.

[via - Macsimum News]

An average iPhone consumer consumes over 5 times more data than that of Blackberry users. This report was shared by Consumer Reports which announced the result of a study that assessed the monthly data usage of over 1,000 customers who use iPhone and other smartphones. The firm Validas analysed and revealed that iPhone users consume an average of 273 MB of data per month, five times that of BlackBerry users and nearly twice that of users of other smartphones.

On average, iPhone users consume 273 MBs of data per month. That compares with 54 MBs for consumer users of Blackberrys and 150 MBs for consumers who use other brands of smart phones, the Validas study found.

Another 12 percent of iPhone users use at least 500 MBs per month with their crush of emails, Web surfing, and other activity related to the device’s more than 100,000 available software applications. And about a third of those data junkies use more than 1 GB of data. (See chart below.)

[via - Consumer Reports]

There is this app discovery service on Facebook called Mplayit that has come out with an interesting discovery, ‘iPhone, Android and Blackberry users use the same apps’. Here is that report. Mplayit tracked 42,000 visitors and the apps they preferred for a set of ‘genres’. TUAW covered this news:

Turns out that for the various categories, the same cross-platform apps tended to be the most popular on the different platforms. Evernote topped the charts for Lists and Notes, Shazam and Pandora were on all three lists for music, and apps like Yelp and Facebook sat high on the chart for multiple platforms. In the end, an app is an app is an app, “app”arently, and it doesn’t really matter which platform you’re using it on.

In the “Utilities” section, things were different for each platform. Bump is the most popular for iPhone, Google Goggles was most popular on Android, and Vlingo won on Blackberry.

[via - TUAW]

This interesting post on The Business Insider throws some interesting light on how and why Corporates in the US are slowly moving to iPhone. “Today we spoke with a top sales executive from a major wireless carrier, as well as several sources close to the smartphone enterprise market,” Rory Maher reports for The Business Insider. “Our sources say three primary drivers are causing Blackberry enterprise clients to switch to the iPhone.”

Cost: For a company with about 1,000 employees it can cost tens of thousands of dollars to manage and maintain the Blackberry service annually. This is because experienced, sophisticated IT people are needed to manage and maintain the Blackberry enterprise servers and updates or this function is outsourced to a third-party vendor. iPhones, on the other hand, are less resource-intensive, and Apple’s active sync can handle most of of the service remotely through Apple. “Tens of thousands of dollars” may not seem like much to a big company, but even the biggest companies are cutting any costs they can these days. The wireless sales exec says one client switched all 400 employees from Blackberry to iPhone for this reason.

International Access: A major Japanese client with offices in America moved from the Blackberry to the iPhone because iPhones work seamlessly in Japan and Korea as well as the United States. Only the Blackberry Bold offers seamless integration when travelling in those countries. We’re told all new Blackberry releases will have the necessary number of bands to enable seamless integration with Japan and Korea so this will become less of an issue over time.

Web Surfing: Internet surfing is less of a differentiator at this stage but more clients have been discussing it in recent months, which indicates this is a growing preference. We believe Apple marketing for the iPhone and the general buzz around the product from a consumer perspective has largely driven demand for this at the enterprise level from the bottom up (i.e. employees asking for them from their IT departments).

Less than 10% of the wireless sales exec’s clients have moved to the iPhone from the Blackberry in the past six months.  This is a jump from “practically zero” a year ago, but still indicates this increase is in the early stages and will take time to materialize to a meaningful level.

[via - The Business Insider]

“IPhone Finds a Home in the Enterprise Market” , a market-research firm Forrester released a report that looks at several companies using the iPhone in the enterprise market. That’s significant for Apple because one of the knocks against the iPhone when it first came out was that it didn’t have sufficient security for large businesses.

“Apple is redefining its third industry: first the computer industry, next the music industry, and now the mobile industry,” said Ted Schadler, the Forrester analyst who wrote the report. “With iPhone, Apple has breached walled gardens that have long slowed innovation and kept advanced applications from reaching the US mobile market.”

iPhone will surely beat BlackBerry one day, I can bet on this. I had used BlackBerry for sometime in 2007 and then moved to iPhone 2G, and I believe iPhone provides a Laptop Level Experience to Business Executives who are on move. BlackBerry has been in the market for years and thats the reason its very difficult to beat BlackBerry in the smartphone segment, but with iPhone improving its OS, interface and security almost every other month, very soon iPhone will become the No.1 in smartphone segment.

[via - PCWorld]

When I saw this video sometime back, I was not that happy:

And just a while back I found the 2nd video, which responds to the above video. DAMN COOL