Analyst: BlackBerry losing market leadership in business customers
The companies buy the world "in droves" iPhones, cited the U.S. Computerworld an IDC analysis. The study distinguishes itself by the Company purchased and acquired by employees, but smartphones used for business purposes (keyword: Bring your own device - BYOD). In the latter, Android is ahead, the IDC predicts this year sell more than 87 million, while the acquisitions were estimated at around 15 million. By comparison, the consumer market, the analysts see by the end of 351 million Android devices go over the counter and 78.6 million iPhones.
Apple has also in the business use to settle for second place. Although with 31.1 million devices in the company purchases the number twice as high as that of Android smartphones, but come on BYOD rail together "only" 37.1 million iPhones.
Since RIM can not keep up. Although 22.4 million BlackBerrys sold directly to companies, but the former top dog in the ailing business BYOD: Only 5.2 million BlackBerrys it will be until the end. Here, according to IDC, the BlackBerrys are still the "gold standard" when it comes to security. In can then forward the 14.8 million retail customers that are predicted to Canadians this year.
Bad numbers for Research in Motion brings to light a different study: According to Kantar Worldpanel report the BlackBerry market share in the U.S. within one year decreased from 8.5 to less than 2 percent.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment