4 ms·
What I see is iPhone (red) had no effect on RIM's share. But once Android appeared, RIM's share melted to nothing.
by rorrr2 13y ago
What I see is iPhone (red) had no effect on RIM's share. But once Android appeared, RIM's share melted to nothing.
- Spooky23 13y agoAndroid's appearance coincides with iPhones ability to securely interoperate with Exchange. Executives started demanding active sync access for those iPhones they were playing with at home. Android didn't have an ability to do that for awhile unless you used apps like Touchdown. IMO, android started hyper growth in 2010-2011. I ran a 100,000 seat exchange environment from 2008-2012. We had 50 active sync devices in 2008. 3,000 in late '08, 8k in 2010 and around 10-11k today. During that same period, BlackBerry went from 5,000 to less than 500.
- coldtea 13y agoAndroid appeared a year after the iPhone. It takes that long (and more) for a platform entrenched with enterprise users to lose its dominance. Those are slower to adapt than the end user market (consider enterprises still using IE6). Plus, the original iPhone didn't have Exchange support and some other stuff RIM users would want to ditch RIM, it got that later.