iPhone Expected to One Up Blackberry in Sales Numbers
While the darling of Apple, the trend setting iPhone mobile device, has long been a true warrior in the fight for global market share of smart phones, it has always come up against strong competition from the Blackberry created by firm Research in Motion, a global market gorilla in terms of sales figures. The business magazine Forbes has expressed the prediction that the Blackberry may not long hold its slim margin of market domination on the world stage because despite its firm 3 percent hold of all mobile phone sales on the planet, the iPhone is edging in close behind with 2 percent that has been hard fought by the American company that brought the Mac computer to the world. Not only are the companies expected to do increasing amounts of business on the global stage in the coming year, it is expected that the iPhone’s market share will jump nearly six times its current level while the Blackberry will do just a bit less than triple its percentage.
The primary reason that the iPhone is expected to surpass the reigning leader in such a way and in relatively short period of time is due to not only the hardware of the device itself, but additional services offered by Apple which include iTunes and iPhone apps that make it far more appealing to the average consumer. This, in combination with other Apple products such as Macs and Apple TV, have gone a long way towards raising the standards in the consumer electronics industry towards a further life style angle that has become a core part of product marketing in modern times.