There will not be much duking.<div>Apple's strength is that they have a way of steering their customers over time to their technologies.</div><div><br></div><div>The CLOSED, walled Garden that is APPLE, offers clear continuity with all their products.</div>
<div>How many of you on this list have iPhone, or iPads?</div><div>They technology just works and it(APPLE) they thought of you and how you will use that technology.</div><div>I have several Droid based phones and they have amazing features, but they are extremely fragmented; with applications, updates etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My hope is RIM does recover. I really think they need new leadership.</div><div><br></div><div>In the past 3 years, I have assisted clients move away from the Blackberry. Gone are the days when the employer is handing phones out and paying for them.</div>
<div>The employees choose other devices that meet their personal and business needs that BB do not, well not very well.</div><div>With companies like <a href="http://www.zenprise.com/">http://www.zenprise.com/</a> who offer an alternative to the BES enterprises are also embracing the other smart phones that are not BB.</div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:07, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
You just did that, so you must be that market guru!<br>
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But I disagree - There is still plenty of market to sell to. The two players that are in hot water have closed and proprietary systems, which were marginal consumer marketshare to begin with. Nokia would have been OK if they hadn't moved to a Windows based phone OS. The remaining players are those with (mostly) open Android Linux phones, and Apple. I think there will be further market shakeup, leaving only Android and Apple to duke it out.<br>
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On 11-06-24 08:23 AM, John Kerr wrote:<br>
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Hi Gang<br>
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with Nokia in trouble, and RIM in the same hot water, I am waiting for some market guru to announce that the entire industry is saturated.<br>
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