{"id":5584,"date":"2009-05-16T09:49:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T17:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/blackberry-dominates-the-world\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T17:49:24","slug":"blackberry-dominates-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/blackberry-dominates-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry dominates the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tEverybody knows we have our first Blackberry-toting president, but how many know that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/gadgetreviews\/?p=3910\">BlackBerry outsells Apple?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An aggressive \u00e2\u20ac\u0153buy-one-get-one\u00e2\u20ac\u009d promotion by Verizon Wireless helped RIM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BlackBerry Curve move past Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2009, according to market research firm The NPD Group.<\/p>\n<p>RIM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s consumer smartphone market share increased by 15 percent to nearly half of the entire smartphone market in Q1 2009 versus the prior quarter. Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Palm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s market share both declined 10 percent each.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Part of this is driven by the new iPhone coming around in June, but Curve is not exactly state of the art in the Blackberry world. Take this as another example of conventional wisdom not being too wise.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows we have our first Blackberry-toting president, but how many know that BlackBerry outsells Apple? An aggressive \u00e2\u20ac\u0153buy-one-get-one\u00e2\u20ac\u009d promotion by Verizon Wireless helped RIM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BlackBerry Curve move past Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2009, according to market research firm The NPD Group. RIM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/blackberry-dominates-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blackberry dominates the world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-smartphones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1s4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}