As suspected, Blackberry issues earlier this year seem to have affected sales. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/8931878/Apple-and-disruptions-dent-BlackBerry.html
Blackberry are expecting lower than expected profits after blackberry services went down earlier in the year, at a similar time to the new iPhone4s release. BB are hoping that the PlayBook, a competitor of the highly successful iPad will save their skin and bring in the missing profit. So far however the PlayBook hasn't taken off and only '150,000 were shipped in the third quarter.'
This is great news for Apple as often the phone of choice today is iPhone vs. Blackberry, the failure made it clear for consumers considering buying a phone at the time which was best... the iPhone because its services hadn't failed on a global scale.
However, in this unpredictable economic climate there is no telling what could happen in the fast approaching 2012, maybe Blackberry will pull it out of the bag, or Apple may make a fatal mistake...
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