Thursday, August 7, 2008

RIM Vader-strangled Palm over the last year

RIM Vader-strangled Palm over the last year
While it's no surprise that RIM continues to dominate Palm in stock prices and enterprise activations, I think we would all like to know by how much.

Darth Vader strangles Elmo Another survey from ChangeWave dances on Palm’s grave by showing RIM’s compared progress over the last year. Planned BlackBerry purchases over the next 90 days had reached 82% from 61% in February ‘07, while Palm dropped from 22% to a dismal 8% in May ‘08. Needless to say, the two companies show an inverse relationship in planned activations, stock prices and enterprise sales. Although the feeling you get from looking at the numbers is akin to watching an episode of The World’s Most One-Sided Fistfights, it does give you hope for what RIM might be able to do against beefier competitors like Apple and Nokia.

(via ChangeWave)

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