Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones

Release Date ‎Oct 14, 2011‎ in Reuters

 
   
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Apple's iPhone 4S to become bestselling device ever; luring people to ditch ...

Economic Times - ‎Oct 15, 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) - ‎Oct 14, 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 - Robert Galbraith, Sinead Carew - ‎Oct 14, 2011‎
Chris Centers displays 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 ...

Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones

Reuters India - Suzanne Plunkett, Sinead Carew - ‎Oct 14, 2011‎
Luke Peters demonstrates Siri, an application which uses voice recognition and detection on the iPhone 4S, outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, London October 14, 2011. By Kate Holton and Poornima Gupta LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's ...

iPhone luring people to ditch rivals

Reuters India - Sinead Carew, Liana Baker - ‎Oct 14, 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, ...

iPhone 4S Release Draws Long Lines, Blackberry Converts

YouTube - ‎Oct 14, 2011‎
The iPhone 4S hit stores Friday across the globe. Eager Apple consumers have been lining up for days to snatch up the new product - the last Apple gadget to be unveiled before the death of company co-founder Steve Jobs. The release also comes on the ...

Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones

Reuters Canada - Kate Holton, Poornima Gupta - ‎Oct 14, 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 ...

Tech Check: BlackBerry jam, iPhone 4S, a Google minus

CNN International - Doug Gross - ‎Oct 14, 2011‎
On Tech Check, Doug Gross, Stephanie Goldberg and John Sutter discuss the BlackBerry outage, iPhone 4s and a Google fail. Fail: A Google engineer insults Google+ ... on Google+ (CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, ...

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

The Guardian - ‎Oct 14, 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 ...

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 ...

iPhone 4S Release Draws Long Lines, Blackberry Converts Worldwide

Zimbabwe Telegraph - ‎Oct 16, 2011‎
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The iPhone 4S hit stores Friday across the globe. Eager Apple consumers have been lining up for days to snatch up the new product, the last Apple gadget to be unveiled before the death of company co-founder Steve Jobs. ...

BlackBerry's blips help Apple regain core market value

Irish Independent - ‎Oct 15, 2011‎
THE death of Apple co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs last week inevitably led to speculation about the future of the iconic technology company. However, if last week's BlackBerry fiasco is any indication, then reports of Apple's imminent ...

Big Business Moves To Dump Blackberry Smartphones

SmartHouse - David Richards - ‎Oct 15, 2011‎
By David Richards & Wire Services | Sunday | 16/10/2011 Large Corporations who have traditionally supported the Blackberry platform are looking to dump the problem plagued smartphone in favour of Apple iPhones and Android devices after their latest ...

Apple's iPhone 4S alluring people to ditch rival smartphones

TopNews New Zealand - Avinash Tripathi - ‎Oct 15, 2011‎
Craze for Apple's iPhone is so great that it is making holes in the customer-base of rival manufacturers, fresh poll conducted by Reuters in the US, France, Australia, Germany, Japan and the UK revealed. According to the poll, more than quarter (28 per ...

BlackBerry outage 'means 62% would choose an iPhone'

UK Net Guide - Phil Norris - ‎Oct 15, 2011‎
Three-fifths of consumers would opt for an Apple iPhone over any type of handset as a direct result of the service problems that hit BlackBerry users this week, new research has shown. Shopping price comparison site Kelkoo revealed 62 ...

This Smartphone Maker is Apple and Google's Best Marketing Agent

Wall St. Cheat Sheet - Emily Knapp - ‎Oct 14, 2011‎
It seems every misstep by Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) sees Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) trading higher, and it's no wonder given that the once ubiquitous BlackBerry smartphone is now being held up as a basis for ...

Thinking about switching from your BlackBerry?

News Talk 980 CJME - ‎Oct 14, 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 ...

How many Blackberry users will shift to Apple?

ComputerWeekly.com (blog) - Karl Flinders - ‎Oct 14, 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. ...

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, ...

Today's e-Reads: BlackBerry Tries to Restore Rep, Verizon Tracks Smartphone

National Journal - Juliana Gruenwald - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
BlackBerry service is humming back to life across the world after a three-day outage, the Associated Press reported. The Wall Street Journal examines the whether BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will be able to fully recover. ...

Week in review: iPhone, BlackBerry top the news

Zimbabwe Telegraph - ‎Oct 15, 2011‎
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT - “I wanted it anyway, but (Steve Jobs' death) made me sort of want it more because this is the last one I know he worked on.” " Buyer Dwight Hill, talking to CNN about why he lined up Friday to buy the iPhone 4S. ...

Week in review: iPhone, BlackBerry top the news

zimGossip - ‎Oct 15, 2011‎
- "I wanted it anyway, but (Steve Jobs' death) made me sort of want it more because this is the last one I know he worked on." " Buyer Dwight Hill, talking to CNN about why he lined up Friday to buy the iPhone 4S. He was one of thousands who lined up ...

BlackBerry: Still No. 1

Nextgov - Sara Jerome - ‎Oct 14, 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 ...

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 ...

Today in the news: Mitt Romney, Herman Cain top new poll

Mexico Ledger - ‎Oct 13, 2011‎
By Anonymous A new poll by CNN " the Poll of Polls " found that Mitt Romney and Herman Cain now sit atop the GOP field. Romney is the favorite at 23 percent, while Cain is at 20 percent. Rick Perry, who made a splash when he entered the race, ...

 

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