Comments on: Survey Places Palm Well Behind RIM Among Enterprise Users

A new ChangeWave survey has been released indicating a groundswell in increased popularity among corporate customers for Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform. This gain for RIM comes at the expense of Palm's Treo smartphone line, which has plummeted to third place behind Apple and barely ahead of industry stalwarts Motorola and Samsung.

Of those surveyed, 73% claimed that a BlackBerry device was their company-issued smartphone of choice. Only 18% of the survey's respondents chimed in with Treo usage, dramatically down 10% from a year ago and down 5% since this past August.

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Aw gee - they REALLY should have had...

SeldomVisitor @ 3/3/2008 7:59:18 AM #

...the iPhone curve in there as well.

email platform

binxboll @ 3/3/2008 11:38:46 AM #

Why does Palm still not get it? The most pressing requirement for Palm to succeed is a consistent, cross-carrier, reliable, enterprise email platform. RIM figured this out years ago. But Palm still lets carriers screw up the email experience.

Dammit Palm, FIX IT!

RE: email platform

wildmantrader @ 3/3/2008 1:01:42 PM #

I think more interesting in this survey is that Rim stayed flat. As more and more enterprises look at TOC, I think you will start to see this trend reverse. Palm just needs a KILLER WINMOB product with GPS, WIFI, etc.

RE: email platform

hkklife @ 3/3/2008 2:17:31 PM #

I was going to comment on that, but decided against it due to this being a Palm-oriented site and not a RIM-related site.

My comments about the poential upcoming WM6 releases by Palm (as well as the surprising lack of a 755w and/or a WM Treo with the "must have" features) basically touches on that. Palm can claim they are shackled by the limitations of Garnet for the lack of many must-have features on the Centro & Palm OS Treos. But to be handed a modern, robust, popular OS like WM6 and to keep delivering 240x240 screens, BT 1.2 and no wi-fi or GPS is just ridiculous.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Verizon Treo 700P-->Verizon 755p

RE: email platform

Ervool @ 3/3/2008 2:23:20 PM #

Actually I think that GPS and the like is not the kind of features corporate people want/need. What people dig is a robust, perfectly integrated email and group calendar platform. One that meshes seamlessly with Exchange and Lotus. RIM does this right for corporate people.

For personal use I guess the features you mention are most important, and the integration with email and calendar must be done "good enough".

Me being a die-hard Palm user, I still carry my TX around for some tasks, but I basically use my company BlackBerry for everything else.

Cheers,

That is a Scary Chart

LiveFaith @ 3/3/2008 8:36:23 PM #

Kris,

That's about a 35% drop in Palm over the period. That's serious! RIM, accorsing to these numbers has jumped about 15% over the same period.

Palm must certainly be one of the saddest stories of mismanagement since 2003 that I can remember. What is worse is that we write these things, not on the heels of recent game changing hardware or software releases. Palm looks to do little more than me-too WinMob hardware updates for the next year. Seeing there recent track record, I would very loosely use the term "me-too".

The hope is over a year away from hitting the shelves. How much like a ski slope will that bottom line look by then? Will anything be left to ressurrect, even if Palm magically delivered a stable and compelling OS running to cutting edge hardware. Makes lottery odds look reasonable in comparison.

Pat Horne

Death can come swiftly to a market leader

Gekko @ 3/3/2008 9:29:57 PM #

"Death can come swiftly to a market leader. By the time you have lost the positive-feedback cycle it's often too late to change what you've been doing, and all of the elements of a negative spiral come into play." - Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead", Chapter 3

"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone." - Bill Gates