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Anecdotal perhaps, but I know no-one who uses a Blackberry. 5 years a go, dozens of people I know used one, but nowadays? None.

SCdF 13y ago
Anecdotal definitely. Cell phone markets change lots depending on country, and no one has lived everywhere. As someone upthread said, they are used a lot by kids in the UK, for example. FWIW, in my social circle and outer circles phone ownership is probably 70% android, 10% windows, 5% apple and 15% dumb phone, so yeah, different strokes for different folks.
- RandallBrown 13y ago
  Where in the world do you live that Windows Phone beats iPhone? I work for Microsoft and still know way more people with iPhones.
  - yesplorer 13y ago
    if you really work for Microsoft, you would perhaps have known that there are certain countries where Windows phone outsell the Iphone because there are no carrier subsidies and the Iphone is freaking expensive! Buying an Iphone for $99 because it is subsidized[0] is a 1 percenter solution in global terms. [0]I use the word even though I doubt it is the right word since it's more like purchased on credit actually because you're going to pay for it over your contract period hence that isn't how subsidy should be used
sudomal 13y ago
Blackberry is still dominant in certain niches. The combination of the: low cost, physical keyboard and messaging makes it popular for youths to communicate unnoticed. It's also well suited for enterprise.
thaumasiotes 13y ago
Anecdotally, my sister (just graduated college) and my uncle (an investor in Palo Alto) both use blackberries. Perhaps your peer group encourages conformity to within-group phone norms? :p In seriousness, I think it's very likely that my sister has one specifically because my uncle does; it's very easy for one community to learn to do things one way and another to learn another way.
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago
  > Perhaps your peer group encourages conformity to within-group phone norms? :p I’m sure that happens, but I’m surrounded by strong-willed individuals who don’t give a rodent’s behind about what choices I make in mobile platforms. Most people I know use Android. About 30% of the people I know use iOS, but I doubt I had anything to do with their choice for the platform. I also didn’t say that Blackberry isn’t a fine platform, or that it isn’t used anywhere at all. However, in my group of friends, family and a few hundred acquaintances, I haven’t spotted a Blackberry device in the past year.

SCdF 13y ago

Anecdotal definitely. Cell phone markets change lots depending on country, and no one has lived everywhere. As someone upthread said, they are used a lot by kids in the UK, for example. FWIW, in my social circle and outer circles phone ownership is probably 70% android, 10% windows, 5% apple and 15% dumb phone, so yeah, different strokes for different folks.

RandallBrown 13y ago
Where in the world do you live that Windows Phone beats iPhone? I work for Microsoft and still know way more people with iPhones.
- yesplorer 13y ago
  if you really work for Microsoft, you would perhaps have known that there are certain countries where Windows phone outsell the Iphone because there are no carrier subsidies and the Iphone is freaking expensive! Buying an Iphone for $99 because it is subsidized[0] is a 1 percenter solution in global terms. [0]I use the word even though I doubt it is the right word since it's more like purchased on credit actually because you're going to pay for it over your contract period hence that isn't how subsidy should be used

sudomal 13y ago

Blackberry is still dominant in certain niches. The combination of the: low cost, physical keyboard and messaging makes it popular for youths to communicate unnoticed. It's also well suited for enterprise.

thaumasiotes 13y ago

Anecdotally, my sister (just graduated college) and my uncle (an investor in Palo Alto) both use blackberries. Perhaps your peer group encourages conformity to within-group phone norms? :p In seriousness, I think it's very likely that my sister has one specifically because my uncle does; it's very easy for one community to learn to do things one way and another to learn another way.

Samuel_Michon 13y ago
> Perhaps your peer group encourages conformity to within-group phone norms? :p I’m sure that happens, but I’m surrounded by strong-willed individuals who don’t give a rodent’s behind about what choices I make in mobile platforms. Most people I know use Android. About 30% of the people I know use iOS, but I doubt I had anything to do with their choice for the platform. I also didn’t say that Blackberry isn’t a fine platform, or that it isn’t used anywhere at all. However, in my group of friends, family and a few hundred acquaintances, I haven’t spotted a Blackberry device in the past year.