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berry'd alive?!....it's official, the Blackberry is dead...... - NewtonMP2100 - 02-15-2017
....basically, as they have 0% share of the market now.....
BlackBerry Hits '0%' Market Share Nearly Ten Years After iPhone Launched
.....Nearly ten years after Apple launched the iPhone, which completely upended the smartphone industry, the device has effectively helped to wipe out one of its major predecessors: the BlackBerry.
BlackBerry has at last fallen to a rounded 0.0% share among smartphone operating systems, including iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile, following an over seven year decline from its peak market share of approximately 20% in 2009, according to the latest quarterly data from research firm Gartner.
The demise of the smartphone that was once the poster child of Canadian innovation has been a long one in the making, but one that was inevitable now that BlackBerry has shifted its focus to software and sold the global rights to future BlackBerry-branded smartphones to Chinese company TCL Communication.
BlackBerry actually continued to grow for around two years after the iPhone launched in June 2007, taking market share away from then-leader Nokia. BlackBerry's market share among all smartphone operating systems was 9.6% in 2007, 16.6% in 2008, and 19.9% in 2009, according to Gartner. Then, the decline started.
By 2011, the surging popularity of iPhones and Samsung Galaxy smartphones led iOS and Android to leapfrog BlackBerry and Nokia to form a duopoly in the smartphone market that exists to this day. iOS and Android combined for a record 99.6% market share last quarter, according to Gartner.
Windows 10 Mobile was the only other platform to make any sort of dent last quarter, recording an insignificant 0.3% market share, according to Gartner. Windows 10 Mobile fell from 1.1% in the year-ago quarter. A group of unnamed "other" operating systems captured the remaining 0.1% share.
iOS adoption is still low compared to Android, with the platforms capturing 17.9% and 81.7% worldwide market share respectively in the fourth quarter. iPhones mainly target the premium smartphone market, however, while there are Android-based smartphones at all price points sold by dozens of brands.
What's next for BlackBerry? In addition to focusing on software, the company is also doing self-driving vehicle research, while its rumored "Mercury" smartphone by TCL will be unveiled on February 25 at Mobile World Congress.
......[ a.k.a. no more RIMming ]................?!
Re: berry'd alive?!....it's official, the Blackberry is dead...... - guod - 02-15-2017
HA !
We must have one of the few remaining users connecting to our Blackberry server. Just got a call from one of our clients this week that he hadn't gotten anything on his Blackberry since last week.
Re: berry'd alive?!....it's official, the Blackberry is dead...... - neophyte - 02-15-2017
I still use my Blackberry Storm as an alarm clock and an "official" time server after power outages. It's not dead yet...
Re: berry'd alive?!....it's official, the Blackberry is dead...... - pdq - 02-15-2017
From the table, it looks like Windows Mobile is not far behind (Blackberry, that is).
Re: berry'd alive?!....it's official, the Blackberry is dead...... - MrNoBody - 02-15-2017
pdq wrote:
From the table, it looks like Windows Mobile is not far behind (Blackberry, that is).
:agree:
No sh|t, I have never seen a WinPhone in the wild!
Re: berry'd alive?!....it's official, the Blackberry is dead...... - N-OS X-tasy! - 02-15-2017
A few observations:
1) Newt, if you are going to quote an article, you should take care to also quote the captions for any images or tables included in your quote.
2) Having said that, the table included in the article appears to document quantities of smartphones sold worldwide on a per-OS basis for Q4 2015 and Q4 2016.
3) Having said that: How is it possible that Apple only sold 77,038.9 iPhones worldwide in Q4 2016? Answer: It isn't - the number is actually 77.0389 million units. It is unfortunate that nowhere in the article or table caption is that fact stated. Poor journalism on display here.
Re: berry'd alive?!....it's official, the Blackberry is dead...... - freeradical - 02-16-2017
Northern Telecom is another Canadian electronics giant that got wiped out.
I remember the DMS-100...
Re: berry'd alive?!....it's official, the Blackberry is dead...... - $tevie - 02-16-2017
MrNoBody wrote:
[quote=pdq]
From the table, it looks like Windows Mobile is not far behind (Blackberry, that is).
:agree:
No sh|t, I have never seen a WinPhone in the wild!
My older sister had one but she ditched it because, seriously, nobody makes apps for it. The phone is fine, but you can't DO anything with it.