Things used to be simple when apples and blackberries were just fruits. But now it seemed that both would be clinching their horns (*if they have any) over market shares. No, not fruit markets, but mobile phones!
Now, many corporate distribute mobile phones to their employees for easy communications among themselves, and for all these while Blackberry has been given the icon of ‘corporate phone’. However, according to Reuters, Standard Chartered, a bank centralized in the UK, is starting to switch its corporate mobile device from RIM’s Blackberry over to Apple’s iPhone. Now, this is no small fuss, as Standard Chartered as an estimation of 75,000 employees globally. This is a rough estimation, and moreover not all will have the privilege of holding on to a corporate phone. But still, it is not a small amount.
“In the first quarter of 2010, Apple sold 8.75 million iPhones, good for a 16.1 percent worldwide market share, taken somewhat at the expense of the BlackBerry. RIM’s smartphone lost market share when compared to the first quarter of 2009 — the only company among the top five brands to do so. – Appleinsider.com”
“If more companies switch to the iPhone, this is of course bad news for RIM,” Lu Chialin, an IT industry analyst at Macquarie Securities in Taipei, told Reuters. “However, it will take a long time for companies to do their own internal testing before deciding to change, so it will be a while before it has any effect on RIM. – Reuters”
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