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The BlackBerry brand is fading rapidly and brand value is very hard to re-build. All the more remarkable then that RIM could not offer incentives to stay. This sort of switch is often painful and I can only imagine that it’s done with some reluctance.

That means that BlackBerry’s pain is probably iPhone or Android’s gain. To move from a BlackBerry to a feature phone seems very improbable to me. Management insists that new devices will boost sales but here we’re measuring the erosion in core users, not upgrades. It’s much more likely that those 4.3 million who left BlackBerry went to other smartphones. With only about 16.5 million US users and an average loss of half a million users per month, unless something drastic happens, RIM could lose its entire US user base by the end of next year.ĭuring the last month alone RIM lost 1.2 million users. This is in a market that has more than doubled. The company has lost 4.3 million users in the last year and is now at about the same number of users it had in late 2009. Microsoft seems to be stabilizing at around 6%īut RIM shows an alarming deterioration. The growth in both Android and iOS has been fairly constant for the last 18 months. Separately, T-Mobile reported that 75% of its device sales during this year have been smartphones, so if this is indicative of overall US market, then by next year it may in fact be quite difficult to find any non-smart phones to buy.Īmong the smartphones, the different OSs have the following installed bases: However growth is accelerating slightly so that tipping point may come sooner. Penetration increased by about 1 % to 36%.Įxtrapolating this growth implies 50% penetration by September 2012. This is a bit down sequentially from July but about average for the period starting January 2010.

In August about 520,000 users switched to using smartphones (from non-smart phones) as their primary phone. I track the change in this data over time. It measures the penetration or consumption of various mobile products and services in the US over a three month period.

The August comScore mobile survey ( MobiLens) is out.

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