Zee said:
I like the ability to switch between business/personal use with ease on the phone. I can see where that would be very handy for people who have blackberrys for work and still want to have personal stuff like Facebook/Twitter etc. Overall there isn't a huge motivation for existing iPhone/Android users to switch over, but I think blackberry users will still be there. There's enough of a market to have 3 big players. Blackberry will carve out it's niche.
The thing is more and more large corporations are switching away from company issued phones. Now that smartphones are becoming so common, companies are seeing a way to save money so instead of issuing everyone a Blackberry they are telling them pick whatever smartphone you want and use it.
The company issued phone is where Blackberry thrives and if that market disappears that could truly spell the end.
I know at my office, which is a typical Fortune 500 company, we were issued new Blackberrys a year and a half ago. Now talking to the folks in IT it looks like when the next contract is up, we'll get to use whatever phone we want.