That time of the week when analyst predictions comes in to please us
The latest word from the analyst stable is that Apple will beat RIM in the samartphone marketshare sometime in 2011. iPhone has been a superhit ever since it was introduced in 2007 and it still remains a white horse for Apple. On the other hand Blackberry has ruled the enterprise market and its a die hard termite sticking to the business users addicted to a physical qwerty.
Trefis now predicts that Apple will settle with 11% market share in 2011 and the Blackberry will manage only
8%. Given the fact that Android would overtake iPhone in 2012 (another analyst prediction we heard sometime back); it means that Android will be the market leader in 2012?
Blackberry’s both attempts with a touchscreen have kinda bombed and failed to impact the iPhone. Whereas the iPhone is making inroads into the business market. The iPhone 4G holds the key to this prediction though …