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Businesses care about cost to upgrade and quality of product.

iPhone generally retains it's value after a year. Which means when they upgrade, they'll get the new iPhone for free with a new contract after trade in.

Android on the other hand tends to only retain half it's value after a year's time. A $300 Android phone will be lucky to be worth $150 after a year.

In the end you pay more to keep up with the newest Android phones than with the newest iPhones. That's just one aspect.

Quality can be argued from both sides. Android seems to have better call quality, while iPhone better apps. Android also has a wider selection of phones. While iPhone has less chance to get malware.

But if you look at the whole picture it sure seems like iPhone suites businesses more due to the "free" upgrades to the latest and greatest technology.

I would never give up my BlackBerry. OS7 on blackberry is at least twice as easy to use as an android or iphone. An yes I have tried both. My BlackBerry is on a 4G network and is faster then the iphone and the android. And did I mention that it is an all touch! That's right no keyboard. Who ever writes these articles needs to learn to do some research before embarrassing themselves like this again.

P.S. This was wrote on my all touch blackberry 9860

Mattvm8v, on 26 April 2012 - 08:16 PM, said:

Not sure what businesses you've worked for, but most of them haven't upgraded since the early 2000s and once they do they'll stick with those new units for years after.

Very few companies upgrade every year.

chm85, on 26 April 2012 - 10:33 PM, said:

"Wrote"?

Actually, I think Alex did a pretty decent job of summing up the title of this article. Making the switch, which I have recently done, can be tough for some folks. I think those people got way more out of this article than the fact that you'd never give up your Blackberry. And while I'm here, just let me say that I was a hardcore Blackberry user. For various reasons including the inability to stream video from my server, I switched. It's the best thing I've done in a long time.

Now back to "being embarrassed".....

chm85, on 26 April 2012 - 10:33 PM, said:

Hi @chm85,

Alex from RIM here. You’re right that we like to give our customers options. Whether it’s the all-touch design of our Torch 9850 and 9860, the QWERTY keyboard/touch screen combo of our Bold 9900 and 9930, or the slide-out keyboard of the Torch 9810, it all comes down to preference. The great thing is that all of our new smartphones rock the BlackBerry 7 OS for a quicker and more fluid user experience, so you win regardless of which device you choose.


Cheers,

Alex, RIM Social Media Team

This post has been edited by bcappel: 27 April 2012 - 09:19 AM
Reason for edit: remove spam link

Mattvm8v, on 26 April 2012 - 08:16 PM, said:

Too long, and has ZERO to do with the article, or helping any of the readers.

Did you even read it? Don't answer that, as it'll be another religious iPhone injection.

Hi @chm85,

Alex from RIM here. You’re right that we like to give our customers options. Whether it’s the all-touch design of our Torch 9850 and 9860, the QWERTY keyboard/touch screen combo of our Bold 9900 and 9930, or the slide-out keyboard of the Torch 9810, it all comes down to preference. The great thing is that all of our new smartphones rock the BlackBerry 7 OS for a quicker and more fluid user experience, so you win regardless of which device you choose.


Cheers,

Alex, RIM Social Media Team
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Hi Alex (and others),
I have been a serious BlackBerry user. But that was after I was forced by the circumstances to switch from my Palm. Nothing ever came close to Palm in its time. It had freedom, free "Apps", most efficient OS and one could elect to store most data and "apps" on media card. Yet it hardly ever crashed. So influenced were my kids that they insisted on using Palm (first centro & now Pre) when I had already made the switch to BB. BB is great for email & perhaps Messenger (though Whats App does a fair job). But BB browser and screen view experience is horrible. And upgrades after upgrades things wont improve. So I keep iPhone for browsing and excellent Apps that really work. But I hate typing on the iPhone. I hate both BB & iOS for being restrictive and high handed controls. This is where I feel Android is closest to being like Palm. Palm OS was the best ever in its time. Subsequently many techies felt WebOS outshone iOS, BB as well as Windows Mobile. But Palm was a marketing disaster. Instead of supplying many useful apps free, it expected users to download themeselves. People like me did & made our smart phones exceptionally smart. So here comes the decision. My younger kid (son) has finally retired his Palm (it is off-regular-duty but used for some apps) and switched over to Android ICS phone (HTC one V). I have bought Samsung 7.7" Tab 6800 now and that explains why I am reading this article. But I am also going for the new iPad 3rd Generation. We will see how it goes from here. May be we continue to use the one device that is good on a particular application, or eventually shut doors on all except one winner. Android anyone. I bet it could be. But not right now.

Regards,

Shekhar Damle