[bane]

I think what explains it is this, Blackberry's were perfect for the business person on the go -- constant access to needed email. But they never really offered anything for the non-business user. Then iPhones and Androids came in and did offer things the average non-business user wanted. So people started buying these better smartphones, but now nobody wanted to carry two big smartphones around. Then everybody realized that those phones could do the corporate exchange server thing as well as the blackberries and they simply dropped the extra phone.

[jarek]

> Blackberry's were perfect for the business person on the go -- constant access to needed email. But they never really offered anything for the non-business user.

This is not true. The chat/SMS experience was excellent, BBM or otherwise.