Blog: Android and Apple iOS will not beat BlackBerry

[Simon]

Fanboys had better sit down before continuing, as I have some bad news for you, unless your particular tech obsession of choice is CrackBerry or Windows flavoured. Neither Apple iOS nor Android will beat BlackBerry or Microsoft as a mobile business platform any time soon, according to the latest market research.

But more of that later, first let's start with some confusing jargon. A newly published study conducted by Plantronics reinforces what I already know, namely that more and more people are working outside of the traditional office environment these days.

Well, actually, that's being a little disingenuous as in reality it confused me greatly by suggesting that people increasingly work in 'transitional spaces' and, to be honest, I had no idea what that really meant.  Delving a little deeper, it would appear that it means 'public spaces used while in transit' according to Plantronics. Translated into normal-speak I think what the survey was actually trying to say is that people are doing more work while on the bus, train or plane. And in hotel rooms, airport lounges or coffee shops for that matter. Anywhere outside of the office, other than the home environment in other words.

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[Steve]

I suppose they must be restricting themselves to business use. I see far many more iPhones these days than Blackberrys.

[Simon]

Yes, me too, but I think companies still use BlackBerrys a lot.

[Lance]

Although I could see that changing in the future.

[Simon]

I think Blackberry still wins on the email scoreboard, and perhaps that's what attracts the business user?

[Lance]

I think part of the attraction is the investment already made in blackberry servers. Personally I can't see where the blackberry is any better on mail.

[Simon]

I guess that it's instant, but the downside is, on the rare occasions that the BB servers are down, there's no 'pull' mail option.

[Lance]

When I had my iPhone hooked up to the corporate exchange server the push mail was coming through faster on the iPhone than on the laptop connected to the wired network.

[Rik]

I wonder how much real change there's been. People have always worked outside the office, particularly reps, but you didn't 'see' the work as it all looked the same on paper.