AppleInsider | Analyst warns of iPhone 2.0’s effect on BlackBerry, Palm share
RIM just had their best quarter ever, and they thanked the iPhone for bringing the spotlight onto smartphones in general. it’s the proper b-school response to your competitors: publicly thank them for legitimizing your space.
while that may truly be the case in the short term, over the next few quarters it will give way to a more sobering reality: the iPhone is going to seriously steal marketshare from them. here’s a choice quote from an article describing just that:
“BlackBerry is currently the front-runner in the consumer smartphone market in part because it met the criteria for success in this market and in part because its competitors until quite recently were simply inept,”
[From AppleInsider | Analyst warns of iPhone 2.0's effect on BlackBerry, Palm share]