Research in Motion can no best say “There’s no abode like home.” The BlackBerry maker is accident adherent admirers in its own territory, Canada, to Apple’s iPhone.
RIM, which is based in Waterloo, Ontario, has been dethroned from its position as the No. 1 smartphone cast in Canada, abaft Apple’s iPhone, Bloomberg reports. It alien 2.08 actor BlackBerrys aftermost year in Canada, while Apple awash 2.85 actor iPhones there, according to abstracts aggregate by IDC and Bloomberg.
If home isn’t safe for the BlackBerry, area is it safe?
“People accept a actual U.S.-focused appearance on RIM, but we accept a actual all-around focus at RIM,” said Thorsten Heins, the company’s arch executive, said in an account in January. “They’re absolutely absolutely absolutely altered markets. In the blow of the world, BlackBerry is growing actual fast.”
But not so in Canada. And in the United States, the iPhone and iPad accept become the best accepted accessories amid business barter as able-bodied as accustomed consumers. In Europe, Android accessories and iPhones accept been aerial in acceptance as well.
In Canada, the BlackBerry is still the smartphone of best for big enterprises, like banks and the federal government, Bloomberg notes. But actuality in the States, some government agencies and account companies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Halliburton, the activity casework company, accept been auctioning the BlackBerry.
RIM’s acknowledgment to the accretion acceptance of Android handsets and the iPhone is a fresh adaptation of the BlackBerry software, alleged BlackBerry 10. But phones based on the freshcomputer application been delayed several times and are now not accepted until backward 2012.
