Blackberry Market Share Quadrubles
CNN reports on the latest Gartner research statistics mentioning that Microsoft will overtake Palm (yawn). In the article, they also quietly mention that the PDA market share of the Blackberry went from 4.9% to 19.8%. In one year. Read that again. Here's the other interesting thing: this research report is only about PDA's, which of course are dying and reincarnating themselves at smart phones. I think one of the reasons that the Blackberry is doing so well is that effectively straddles the fence between being a PDA and being a phone. I'd also venture a guess and say that the Blackberry picked up a large percentage of the 17% market share that Palm lost within the last year (because the Blackberry is the new Palm).
November 12, 2004 in News by ajohnson