Analysts: 20 Million BB10 Devices Will Be Active by Year's End
BlackBerry 10 should have a good foundation before the end of the year.
ABI Research claims that RIM, or rather the newly-christened BlackBerry, will have 20 million BlackBerry 10 smartphones in active use by the end of the year. The firm also expects to see 45 million Windows Phone devices activated before the arrival of 2014. But how will these platforms fare after December 31?
"The greatest fear for both Microsoft and BlackBerry is that the initial sales of their smartphones will disappoint and thereby kill off the developer interest, which then would effectively close the window of opportunity on further sales success," said Senior analyst Aapo Markkanen.
But the pre-existing consumer base of the prior-generation platforms (aka BB9, WP7) should be large enough to keep these two in the game. It will definitely also help that both firms have actively kept the developers’ interest in mind while designing and rolling out their new platforms, he said.
The firm said on Thursday that on a more global, multi-platform scale, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use before the end of 2013. Unsurprisingly, 57-percent of these will run on Android and 21-percent on iOS, thus leaving 22-percent of the market to BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone 8 and other mobile platforms (like Firefox OS).
On the tablet front, there will be 268 million units in active use by the end of 2013, with 62-percent offered by Apple and 28-percent using Google's Android OS. Microsoft is also expected to have 5.5 million Windows-powered tablets, having launched both Surface RT, Surface Pro and related products offered by OEMs. The annual growth rate against 2012 will be 44-percent for smartphones and 125-percent for tablets, the firm said.
"Despite of Apple’s and Google’s strong hold of the market, ABI Research anticipates that the future won’t be quite as duopolistic as it may seem now," the report said.
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The Mayans weren't wrong. ("Wrong" implies they made some kind of statement)
Some morons who claimed to understand the Mayan calendar were wrong.
The Mayans weren't wrong. ("Wrong" implies they made some kind of statement)
Some morons who claimed to understand the Mayan calendar were wrong.
After all, they're gonna get paid anyway.
Pretty much every cellphone is made in in a sweatshop. But Foxconn who makes the iphone is one of the better jobs in china
If you were purchasing a smartphone on principle, you would never have purchased a Samsung. Nokia until recently was manufactured in Europe.
Blackberry Paid Independent Analysts: 20 Million BB10 Devices Will Be Active by Year's End
To sell 20Mil+ BB10 will have to be on devices that are
- iPhone killers
- S3 killers
- Lumia killers
Kind of tough...
Almost all phones are made in sweatshops. The only reason Apple gets outed all the time is because they take their sweatshop phone and sell it as if the cost of manufacturing was in America.
Amazingly, my Nokia is made by Nokia, in a Nokia factory, by Nokia employees. Not saying it is not a sweatshop of sorts, but if there are problems Nokia deals with them and takes responsibility rather than attempting to shift the blame on some 3rd party. On top of that they still produce a better phone for a better price than Apple, all while turning a profit (just not the insane profit that Apple makes).
Agreed. I like the new PalmOS, but I am afraid that most of the sales are just going to be to people who miss their old BB devices.
If MS had any advertising sense they would sell WP8 devices as business phones. All of the features are there and work great... but instead they try and sell it as the hipster phone to try and get more app sales. But if they did have a business focus they could eat up the BB market without much trouble at all.
Only selling the devices using the "in house" name of BlackBerry doesn't do any good when everyone wants a Galaxy S3, or iPhone. If they licensed this software out to other manufacturers at a cost of $0.00, then they would sell devices by the truckload.