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iPhone outsold by the Blackberry Curve? - yeah but that’s not the important part
I agree strongly with Bijan’s point #3 below, the next version of the iPhone (software and possible hardware) is the beginning of the war. Until now serious blackberry enterprise users had trouble switching to the iPhone copy and paste, email search and the horizontal keyboard are all game changers.
It will be interested to see this same report at the end of this year…
The blogs are buzzing with the news that for the first quarter the Blackberry Curve outsold the Apple iPhone according to NPD Research.
I read it first on Techmeme and clicked through to a number of posts on the subject. All of them citing the NPD research.
There is no doubt that the Blackberry is a mighty fine device but total units isn’t the important thing in my view. Few things to consider:
1 - The Blackberry Curve is available on every single carrier in the United States. Verizon (biggest US carrier) had a buy one-get one promotion. It would be an absolute shocker if the iPhone, available only on AT&T, exceeded the Curve
2 - The Blackberry App World is still lacking big time in my experience. Both in UX and apps. RIMM needs to get developer attention. That’s critical.
3 - iPhone 3.0 OS, which I’ve been using in beta, is going to hurt RIMM. Copy & paste, search and horizontal keyboard is a big improvement and will win over plenty of bberry users.
