Survey says suits issued BlackBerry over Palm by a wide margin
Well golly, no wonder Palm's gone on the attack against RIM. Corporate users have historically been the bread and butter of Palm's Treo line of smartphones, and with BlackBerrys of all shapes and sizes continuing to eat every other manufacturers' lunch in that profitable arena, it only makes sense that the company would be feeling more heat than ever. We're forced to take these stats with a grain of salt seeing how ChangeWave doesn't explain its surveying methods in its overview, but we've no reason to doubt the findings that 73 percent of corporate users are doled out a BlackBerry -- the same as was reported in November of last year -- while only 18 percent get a Treo, down from 28 percent a year ago. Now granted, these numbers represent the percentage of devices actually issued, which we suppose could be quite a bit different than what employees would prefer to be issued, but we doubt the difference is enough to equalize these two. What now, Palm?
[Via Palm Infocenter]
[Via Palm Infocenter]














Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Khris @ Mar 4th 2008 5:46PM
Notice that red line....it's an indication of how Palm is hemorrhaging and sinking into the abyss.
To Palm Execs: Maybe if you stand on the bow railing and have an "I'm the king of the world" moment, you might be able to stay above the flood waters a little longer. Might want to strap on some water-wings just to be sure though....that Chapter 11 water is awfully cold.
Applerulez Wellmaybenot @ Mar 4th 2008 6:17PM
The lack of an iPhone line in there is just sad - that might tell the REAL story (a real bad one for Palm).
Fernando @ Mar 4th 2008 7:31PM
so just 9% with wm or nokia eseries? I don't habeeb it.
Winston @ Mar 4th 2008 9:19PM
To Khris: well said!
I'm only surprised the gap was not wider. Ask anyone who has gone from Palm to BB and 99% will tell you BB is a better device all around. I would go to a regular flip or candybar before going back to Palm. Yearly software delays, no interest in making cutting edge products like they used. Smartass comments like the ones dissing BB's recent outages. Really sad Palm that even with BB's occasional outages, people would rather have that then your slow bricks. Treos are like gridlock traffic, you'll still get where you want to go but it will take much longer and damn is it frustrating!
Virtuous @ Mar 5th 2008 2:47AM
You don't need a survey to figure out who prevailed. Just go to any major airport. RIM has blown right by Palm.
backbeat @ Mar 5th 2008 3:48PM
Palm VS RIM? The difference is that Palm has virtually _no_ assets, while RIM is loaded. Poor Palm. The only remaining Palm event to occur is the autopsy.