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by dezwald
5557 days ago
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I think there are 2 markets here that need to be separated when comparing RIM with Apple and Android. Corporate and Consumer. RIM dominates the enterprise/corporate market and as of recent has been trying to break into the consumer market. Black berries where made for the corporate/work industry. Apple always has made consumer based products. So we are comparing apple to oranges. It's like taking a car company that's focuses on building trucks and then comparing it to a car company that builds luxury cars. They are completely different. That being said, when entering into a new market, for instance with RIM entering into the consumer market, it's going to take some time for RIM to gain market share. Now, has RIM made some bad development platform decisions in their process? yes they have. But if you're going to compare RIM to consumer based companies, I think it's a little premature - give them another year or two. |
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It's not up to me. The market will decide how much longer RIM has.
I suspect you're overly optimistic about their hold on the enterprise market, as well. While the smart phone market has grown dramatically, and thus RIM can continue to grow sales while losing market share at a tremendous clip, the fact is that if they're making phones no one wants, even enterprises will change eventually. CEOs and CTOs want nice phones, too, and they'll make the necessarily decisions to switch infrastructure to nice phones. This has already happened at every major company I know of that used to be Blackberry-only. They're now offering iPhone and Android to their people, alongside Blackberry, and everyone is obviously (and sensibly) choosing iPhone or Android.