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Apple iPhone closing in on BlackBerry market share

December 11, 2009 Sorin Adam Matei

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Apple is catching up, although RIM still dominates the business market, especially that of secure email.

Paul Carton, Director of Research at ChangeWave Research, reported yesterday at investorplace.com that Apple iPhone is gaining steadily on BlackBerry’s market share, a great feat considering BlackBerry’s entrenched position in the business sector. iPhone market share is now a heady 30%, still behind BlackBerry’s 40%, but RIM products are not gaining new users at nearly the same rate. As for Palm? Well, the Pre seems to have leveled out the free fall, but there’s nothing terribly encouraging about the data. My guess is they are still pining for those halcyon days of 2006 when Palm was king.

via Apple iPhone closing in on BlackBerry market share.

RIM moves further into China, faces knock-offs (financialpost.com)
How should RIM react to increased competiton from Apple, Palm? (mobilecrunch.com)
Traders place bullish bets on RIM (financialpost.com)

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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