Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones

Release Date 15 Oct, 2011 in Reuters

 
   

Apple's iPhone to become bestselling device ever; luring people to ditch rival ...

Economic Times - 15 Oct, 2011
LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc's latest iPhone looks set to become its bestselling device ever, and one reason appears to be disenchantment with rival smartphones. Nearly one in four people who thronged Apple stores from Tokyo to San Francisco told ...

Apple or BlackBerry

London Free Press (blog) - 15 Oct, 2011
By kathy.rumleski With the major problems BlackBerry endured this week, I'm sure they've lost lots of business. Now Apple has come out with its iPhone 4S today and consumers are loving it. Tech reviewers were disappointed with the new phone but Apple ...

Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones

Reuters India - Kate Holton, Poornima Gupta - 15 Oct, 2011
As part of a regular series showcasing a city, Reuters photographers take us around the city of Mumbai. Slideshow Chris Centers displays his new iPhone 4S after making the purchase at Apple's flagship retail store in San Francisco, California October ...

Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones

Reuters India - Kate Holton, Poornima Gupta - 15 Oct, 2011
As part of a regular series showcasing a city, Reuters photographers take us around the city of Mumbai. Slideshow Luke Peters demonstrates Siri, an application which uses voice recognition and detection on the iPhone 4S, outside the Apple store in ...

iPhone luring people to ditch rivals

Reuters India - Sinead Carew, Liana Baker - 15 Oct, 2011
Apple's latest iPhone looks set to become its bestselling device ever, and one reason appears to be disenchantment with rival smartphones. Full Article India crush England by 126 runs in first ODI. Full Article Rajaratnam gets 11-yr sentence, ...

Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones

Reuters UK - Robert Galbraith, Sinead Carew - 15 Oct, 2011
A customer uses his new iPhone 4S after making the purchase at Apple's flagship retail store in San Francisco, California October 14, 2011. By Kate Holton and Poornima Gupta LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's latest iPhone looks set to become ...

Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones

Reuters Canada - Kate Holton, Poornima Gupta - 15 Oct, 2011
LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's latest iPhone looks set to become its bestselling device ever, and one reason appears to be disenchantment with rival smartphones. Nearly one in four people who thronged ...

iPhone 4S buyers: if there wasn't an iPhone, we'd get a ... BlackBerry

The Guardian - 15 Oct, 2011
Here's some cause for celebration at the headquarters of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which suffered its worst-ever outage this week: if there had never been an iPhone, a third of the people who today bought Apple's new iPhone 4S at its Regent ...

Which would you pick? A BlackBerry or an iPhone?

Telegraph.co.uk - Hannah Betts, Ann Widdecombe - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
Apple's iPhone seems to have finally triumphed in the mobile phone war because of the BlackBerry global breakdown. By Hannah Betts and Ann Widdecombe "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough…”, for a data centre amid Betjeman's benighted landmark is at ...

BlackBerry crumble gets some spice

Times LIVE - Bruce Gorton - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
I bought an Apple and Steve Jobs died. I bought a BlackBerry and it died. Does Bryce Lawrence sell anything? A Nokia, an iPhone and a Samsung walk past a BlackBerry. They all turn around and tune him: "What's app?" What did one BlackBerry user say to ...

BlackBerry sees light at end of tunnel " but is it just new iPhone's glow?

The Independent - Kevin Rawlinson, Charlie Cooper - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
With BlackBerry still reeling from a catastrophic communications blackout that left millions of smartphone users worldwide unable to receive emails this week, its rival, Apple, is expected to reap the benefits. ...

BlackBerry outage frustrates bankers

Times of India - ‎Oct 12, 2011‎
NEW YORK: A senior investment banker at a major Wall Street firm kept sending out e-mails on his BlackBerry morning. And they kept bouncing back. "It's one of those things -- you don't realize how important it is to breathe, until you can't do it," ...

BlackBerry blackout leaves Wall Street honchos disconnected

Firstpost - ‎Oct 12, 2011‎
A senior investment banker at a major Wall Street firm kept sending out e-mails on his BlackBerry on Wednesday morning. And they kept bouncing back, annoying him. “It's one of those things " you don't realise how important it is to breathe, ...

Rival's frailty could prove fruitful for Apple

The Independent - Rhodri Marsden - ‎Oct 12, 2011‎
As frustrated BlackBerry users began to use the kind of language that turns the air purple, more than one wag observed how benevolent it was of RIM to honour the death of Steve Jobs by offering three days of silence. ...

What Android needs to learn from the BlackBerry and iPhone outages

Life of Android (blog) - Robert Leedham - 15 Oct, 2011
These past seven days have proved an excellent week to be a smug member of the Android army. While our BlackBerry-owning friends bemoan the loss of their previously untouchable BlackBerry Messenger and our iPhone-owning relatives curse the iOS 5 update ...

Government Employees Will Be Forced to Use BlackBerrys Forever

New York Magazine (blog) - 15 Oct, 2011
While some companies will probably take this week's massive BlackBerry service outage as a sign to finally get their employees some work iPhones (or Androids!), federal agencies are not likely to make the switch anytime soon. ...

Thinking about switching from your BlackBerry?

News Talk 980 CJME - 15 Oct, 2011
BlackBerry users may consider switching to a competitor after its services around the world went down this week. Before users make that choice, Independent Technology Analyst Carmi Levy-- who was a guest on The Brent Loucks Show-- points out outages ...

COLUMN: I will never give up my BlackBerry

Central Michigan Life - Maria Amante - 15 Oct, 2011
My best friend and I got our BlackBerries together. One Wednesday morning he called to tell me he had news: he was switching from our beloved BlackBerry to an Android. We talked it out, and ultimately I took his ...

How many Blackberry users will shift to Apple?

ComputerWeekly.com (blog) - Karl Flinders - 15 Oct, 2011
The problems suffered by Blackberry users this week could be another opening for its competitors. Blackberry users suffered problems using their data servers for three days this week. ...

BlackBerry: Still No. 1

National Journal - Sara Jerome - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
Even in this age of the iPhone, Congress still prefers the older technology, which is considered safer and more secure. By Sara Jerome The BlackBerry outages that spread across the globe this week may prompt more congressional staffers to switch to ...

Apple & BlackBerry Crumble, Served With White Whine

Huffington Post UK (blog) - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
My girlfriend has a BlackBerry, one of my housemates has an iPhone, and another housemate has both; they've all been having a spot of bother this week. I have an Android phone and so I've rarely been more smug, which is saying something. ...

SmartPhone Needs a Bat Phone

Internet Evolution - Todd Watson - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
Yeah, it's definitely slow on the uptake. I was joking with some friends on Facebook last night that perhaps Apple should buy some new IBM Blade servers to help speed those downloads along. But hey, at least the download/install eventually worked, ...

BlackBerry Outage Makes iPhone Owners Even More Smug

The Atlantic Wire - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
Nothing says "I'm superior" like kicking an opponent when he's down. So, not too surprisingly, iPhoners are tweeting smugly as BlackBerry users experience a fourth day of outages. The comedic timing really couldn't be any better, with all of Apple's ...

BlackBerry outages spread

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Tom Fontaine - ‎Oct 12, 2011‎
Tom Fontaine is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7847 or via e-mail. As friends flocked to flashier iPhones and Android-based smartphones, Samantha Wannemacher said she ...

BlackBerry: Still No. 1

Nextgov - Sara Jerome - 15 Oct, 2011
The BlackBerry outages that spread across the globe this week may prompt more congressional staffers to switch to trendier kinds of smartphones. But because of cybersecurity concerns, that may not be so smart ...

 

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