Europe:Can iPhone Oust the BlackBerry Favorite?

Win Mobile used to have good support, but a few of my friends on Win Mobile were told that their phones would no longer be supported by their company.

 

Honestly, neither of these phones are really entrenched in Europe like they are in North America. Keep in mind RIM and Apple are North American companies, and Europe is home to Nokia and Ericsson (ok, SonyEricsson for phones). Plus I think Europe's culture difference to the US carries over to phones as well. The US is heavily media driven, pop-culture driven, commercial driven...while Europe is a bit more laid back. People generally don't watch as much TV here or are "pressured" socially by the flavor of the day. So they tend not to be affected so much by marketing, but more by informing themselves of the choices and then chosing something. So buying something (ex. a phone) just because it's "cool" doesn't as happen on the massive scale as it does in the US.

Having said that, I never saw much of a BlackBerry presence here and tend to usually see more iPhones than BlackBerries. But still the majority of the phones I see are Nokia and SE. Granted that's just my personal experience, maybe some statistics somewhere will prove me wrong. And really buisness/companies issuing or requiring a certain OS doesn't happen very often. From what I see it's pretty rare actually, and for a comapny to switch a phone OS would have a minimal impact on the overall smartphone market.

 

I did, just went off on a little tangent