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09-26-2013, 12:30 PM
The typical narrative surrounding BlackBerry’s current woes is that the company reacted far too slowly to the threat that the iPhone posed and thus planted the seeds of its own demise. But while it’s true that BlackBerry took too long in responding to the post-iPhone smartphone market — particularly in the realm of mobile apps — one chart shows how BlackBerry’s downfall didn’t really accelerate until Android start gaining steam in 2010. Business Insider has posted a chart based on the most recent Gartner data showing that BlackBerry still had a reasonably significant share of the smartphone market throughout most of 2009, two years after Apple first launched its iconic device. Things only start to go south for BlackBerry in

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