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absolutelytrueJan 30, 2011
You could not pay me to get another BlackBerry.
rockergirlieJan 31, 2011
I agree. After 3 years of being stuck with a phone that freezes up, refuses to hold a charge, and can't load any web pages... I'M DONE. :)
badqatJan 30, 2011
RIM should be focusing on providing modern hardware with their snazzy new QNX OS. Instead, they've simply been living in the past.
It will come back to haunt them.
scottjones68Jan 31, 2011
or focusing on businessmans.
sirsurfalotJan 31, 2011
I do love my Android phone. Well, not love, actually. But it really is awesome.
myztryJan 31, 2011
So essentially nobody (4-5%) wants either phone? That's so unfortunate.
Some people may find themselves getting them because Corporate policy requires the features they offer. Microsoft can even modify the dominant OS to suit their phone, so that's what people are most likely to find themselves stuck with in the end.
TomHanks4Jan 31, 2011
considering the expanding size of the smartphone market, 5% isn't that bad (if MS can really sell that amount). there were 1.4 billion phones sold in 2010, and smartphones were something like 20% of that. 5% of 20% of 1.4 billion is still 14 million phones, if i did the math right. not that bad at all.
myztryFeb 2, 2011
+/- 5% is the standard allowance for errors...
TomHanks4Feb 2, 2011
sure, and i'm not convinced ms will actually account for 5% of sales anyway... but, if they somehow did, it would be quite a decent chunk of phones, thats all im saying.
d0x360_Jan 31, 2011
Im fairly surprised by this. When I get the first android phone (Tmobile G1) all my friends had blackberry's and they made fun of me. I tried talking them into android and they all said no we love our blackberry. Well the tide turned cause all those punks...and i mean ALL of them now own droids.
Now I get to make fun of their insane long wait for Verizon to update firmware which ill enjoy the latest and greatest on my Nexus One.
alinchiriacJan 31, 2011
How about an Iphone or Android Phone
imacomputahJan 31, 2011
What kind of depraved individual sits at a cellphone shop torn between RIM & Microsoft?
Apparently one that's never heard of Android.
charlotte_webJan 31, 2011
It makes sense. Microsoft and RIM are both going after the same enterprise customer. Good news for Microsoft; terrible news for RIM as they are about to be dethroned as the top smartphone in the US.
reaper527Jan 31, 2011
this is a much better outlook for windows phones than pcmag gave last week:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376835,00.asp
TomHanks4Jan 31, 2011
what people seem to say they want in these surveys doesn't match what people are actually buying at all.
for instance, in Q4 2010 android outsold the iphone by more than 2 to 1, yet they are neck and neck in this survey. Windows phone was not chosen by 5% of actual buyers, only 3%, while Blackberry claimed 14%.
i realize this is a survey of what people think they want going forward, but based on some obvious trends in actual sales over the last several quarters, I don't think it's realistic.
tyler1413Feb 2, 2011
Blackberry is in trouble.