The iPhone has taken a big bite out of the BlackBerry in a market where the older phone once dominated: business customers in North America.Meanwhile, in Europe, Samsung is poised to do the same to Research in Motion, BlackBerry’s maker, as a growing number of businesses are buying, or plan to buy, phones using the Android operating system.Although BlackBerry is a must-have accessory for the growing business class in the developing economies of the world and RIM is adding customers there at a healthy clip, the company faces a problem in its established markets. Businesses are looking for another option besides the BlackBerry.To read this report in The New York Times in full, see:
www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/technology/blackberry-under-siege-in-europe-from-rivals.html