news.cnet.com— Apple's iPhone has half the failure rate of RIM's BlackBerry in the first year of use, a study carried out by a mobile-phone warranty firm has found.
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Its a full on failure to you, but the study is talking about when the phone is actually broken and has to be returned to the store.Some people find returning the phone to the store somewhat more inconvenient than rebooting it.
Doesn't the third party firm handle entire companies, so if a company chooses to cover the iphones through this third party and everyone with a broken phone hands it to IT and sends it to the company, and they use the same sample sizes, then this would be accurate.
Buried as inaccurate. Doesn't take into account market share. I can easily see BB devices having a higher rate of failure because there's nearly 10 times as many of them in the market. Economies of scale. Call me when a fortune 500 company adopts the iPhone as their corporate standard.I happily support 40 Blackberries yes they have problems, so does every other phone on the market. Most if not all of my "defective" blackberries were user abuse.
Re-read the article, it doesn't state that the sample was even between iphones, blackberries and Treos. All it said was the numbers were based off of the 15000 devices they manage. From the article "he SquareTrade study, released Saturday, looked at more than 15,000 handsets that were covered by the company's policies."It doesn't say 15k of each type, it just says 15k phones, and NO you cannot infer that they meant 15k of each.Thats why the article is bogus. We don't know the numbers involved. They could have 10000 blackberries, 1000 iphones and 4000 treos. With that many more blackberries you will see a higher rate of failure, its just a matter of numbers.It also goes on to say that projected failures for 2 years on the iphone is 9-11%, which is nearly the same as the blackberry.Plain and simple this is a bogus article slanted for the iphone. Buried.
Its all about the experience. Blackberry was the shiz for so long they feel no one can touch them. Their products are not reliable. I have some real serious warranty issues and they would not fix the problem. Now I just talk bad about the product and their service. There are better phones than blackberry. People love the iphone because it is a good experience. Blackberry is work to use and the company is arrogant (yes more so than apple .02)
uknowwhoibeNov 11, 2008
I do it all the time. The only downfall of iPhone email is the 15 minute refresh with push.That's it.
ccb0x45Nov 11, 2008
Its a full on failure to you, but the study is talking about when the phone is actually broken and has to be returned to the store.Some people find returning the phone to the store somewhat more inconvenient than rebooting it.
ccb0x45Nov 11, 2008
Doesn't the third party firm handle entire companies, so if a company chooses to cover the iphones through this third party and everyone with a broken phone hands it to IT and sends it to the company, and they use the same sample sizes, then this would be accurate.
scannerNov 11, 2008
Buried as inaccurate. Doesn't take into account market share. I can easily see BB devices having a higher rate of failure because there's nearly 10 times as many of them in the market. Economies of scale. Call me when a fortune 500 company adopts the iPhone as their corporate standard.I happily support 40 Blackberries yes they have problems, so does every other phone on the market. Most if not all of my "defective" blackberries were user abuse.
peterinjapanNov 11, 2008
There are Microsoft fans?Ba dam-dum!
macintoshreaderNov 11, 2008
Proof or STFU.
mytcbumpsNov 11, 2008
Not for long. Storm is coming!
scannerNov 11, 2008
Re-read the article, it doesn't state that the sample was even between iphones, blackberries and Treos. All it said was the numbers were based off of the 15000 devices they manage. From the article "he SquareTrade study, released Saturday, looked at more than 15,000 handsets that were covered by the company's policies."It doesn't say 15k of each type, it just says 15k phones, and NO you cannot infer that they meant 15k of each.Thats why the article is bogus. We don't know the numbers involved. They could have 10000 blackberries, 1000 iphones and 4000 treos. With that many more blackberries you will see a higher rate of failure, its just a matter of numbers.It also goes on to say that projected failures for 2 years on the iphone is 9-11%, which is nearly the same as the blackberry.Plain and simple this is a bogus article slanted for the iphone. Buried.
blainestormFeb 18, 2009
Its all about the experience. Blackberry was the shiz for so long they feel no one can touch them. Their products are not reliable. I have some real serious warranty issues and they would not fix the problem. Now I just talk bad about the product and their service. There are better phones than blackberry. People love the iphone because it is a good experience. Blackberry is work to use and the company is arrogant (yes more so than apple .02)