iPhone versus BlackBerry in SA

Bru - I am an antiquity of the times when trolls roamed the earth! (or at least under your friendly neighborhood bridge).
 
Rouxenator said:
Typing is like so 1980's. Writing is much more natural.
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I disagree - maybe just in my case. I type WAY faster than I write. Perhaps I'm out of practice writing. Writing has just become obsolete. In 80% of instances where I wrote something down I had to eventually type it up. Writing is a dying breed.
 
unskinnybob said:
I disagree - maybe just in my case. I type WAY faster than I write. Perhaps I'm out of practice writing. Writing has just become obsolete. In 80% of instances where I wrote something down I had to eventually type it up. Writing is a dying breed.
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See you didn't catch Rouxenator's sarcasm :p.
 
The article has 2 paragraphs that sum it up:
According to Goldstuck Apple’s strategy of closing off a large chunk of every market in which it signs exclusive distribution agreements is not serving the company well. “In SA, that meant at least 46% of the market was not available to the iPhone,” says Goldstuck.

Another reason for BlackBerry’s success in the country is that some BlackBerry models are now available on very basic contract packages, making it accessible to the entire contract market. “The iPhone is still a high-end phone in this market, and therefore a luxury purchase. It doesn't have anything to challenge the uptake of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in the youth market, for example,” said Goldstuck.
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Part in bold...we all knew this. Hell even Blackberry support locally is a ton better...can you even buy stuff "legally" from the Iphone Appstore without jumping through hoops?

Plus they call the iphone a "high end phone" yet, it does not do anything in particular more than a regular HTC/Blackberry phone does...
 
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