- I use both platforms and both have their advantages and disadvantages, neither is by definition better than the other. Blackberry is a messaging device that also runs apps. It's the best messaging device on the planet hands down, both hardware and software. Android is a mobile computer that focuses on running apps, some of which also do messaging. Third party application management on Blackberry is mediocre at best (though it is getting better, with QNX on the horizon we cant really expect much more improvement on the old platform). Android web browsing blows Blackberry away (even though it has gotten better), and has top notch Google integration. Blackberry does it to (except when carriers kill Google Search), but it is not as well done or integrated into the core OS like it is on Android. Messaging apps on Android range from crappy to really good with most somewhere in the middle and the user has to search to find what ones work for them since the stock apps are often the crappy ones. In general Blackberry devices get better cellular reception than Android (Motorola hardware usually being the exception here).09-01-11 10:14 PMLike 0
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Just sayin'.09-02-11 12:31 AMLike 0 - Those 70 million users are mostly in the developing world and are using trackball blackberry's. Selling cheap phones in the third world has not worked well for Nokia, who is a hair's breadth from being eaten by Microsoft. Phone companies make their money on high-margin smartphones.
Just sayin'.09-02-11 01:58 AMLike 0 -
Must be fallacy of some sort......I'm sure of it.
Sept 2008, Rim was sitting on 42% marketshare.
July 2011, RIM is sitting on rougly 21% marketshare.
Again, I must be reading the numbers all wrong....
Next quarter, RIM will be BELOW 20%......it's bleeding marketshare and it can't stop.09-02-11 02:00 AMLike 0 - But although their market share has shrunk, the smartphone market has expanded so they are still selling more phones. It's not like the smartphone market is a static amount and they are dwindling down to no customers.
And most Android adopters have yet to make it through their original 2-year commitment. It will be interesting to see how much churn starts happening after that. I hear as many people grumbling about it as people praising it.09-02-11 02:22 AMLike 0 -
And most Android adopters have yet to make it through their original 2-year commitment. It will be interesting to see how much churn starts happening after that. I hear as many people grumbling about it as people praising it.
I think RIM will gain some of their market-share back with these new devices, but not a great deal. Carries are not yet actively pushing Blackberry anymore and they have not started pushing WP7, and as we get blogs and tech geeks like us might talk about things the vast majority of people who upgrade their cel phones either buy that device they see on commercials OR what they carrier sales person recommends..09-03-11 11:16 AMLike 0 - I think RIM will gain some of their market-share back with these new devices, but not a great deal. Carries are not yet actively pushing Blackberry anymore and they have not started pushing WP7, and as we get blogs and tech geeks like us might talk about things the vast majority of people who upgrade their cel phones either buy that device they see on commercials OR what they carrier sales person recommends..09-03-11 12:34 PMLike 0
- Tre LawrenceBetween RealitiesGoogle functionality on Android is becoming a huge draw. If Google actually ever advertised that (or advertised Android at all), they'd pick up even more subscribers.
For now, I think BB is still in it, but I still think it'll take some serious spurring of application development. The platform has plenty going for it.09-03-11 02:43 PMLike 0
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