14 July 2013

BlackBerry US marketshare has almost disappeared

graphic of US marketshare of smartphone sales for 3 months ending May 2013
info source: kantarworldpanel.com (site link infra)












BlackBerry may be gone even sooner than previously thought--Kantar Worldpanel report (pdf) on US smartphone sales shows dismal results for BlackBerry: less than 1% of all smartphone sales for the 3 months ending May, 2013 (compared with 4.6% of all smartphone sales for the same period a year ago).

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