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Apple Will Soon Overtake RIM in Consumer Smartphone Market

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Nov 02, 2009

Summary

A new report by ChangeWave Research provides yet more evidence of the surge in consumer interest in smartphones; and of Apple's iPhone in particular. Last week we reported statistics from AdMob stating that smartphones are now edging out feature phones as the device of choice for consumers. In the race for the highly lucrative consumer smartphone market, blackberry devices still hold the lead over iPhone - but ChangeWave's data shows that the gap is rapidly closing.

We predict that it won't be long until Apple overtakes RIM as the leader in this hotly contested (and vitally important, in context of the Web's shift from PC to phones) market.

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RIM's market share is creeping down, while Apple's surges up. ChangeWave puts RIM at 40% of market share, but Apple is now just 10% points behind at 30%. This was mainly due to the the iPhone 3GS release, which saw Apple gain 5% since June. Meanwhile Palm's fortunes continue to sag - they're at a dismal 7% according to this report.