BlackBerry market share falls to just 1.5%

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http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UBmZYGMUKAxbUF6JhicF9Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/blackberry-q10-heins.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-market-share-falls-just-1-5-182055866.html)While BlackBerry continues to enjoy stunning adoption rates for its new cross-platform BBM messaging apps, its smartphone business is in free fall. Industry watchers issued their smartphone market estimates this week following Apple’s September-quarter earnings report and according to market research firm ABI Research,-BlackBerry’s global smartphone market share is now barely a blip on the radar. ABI says 244 million smartphones shipped during the third quarter this year and Samsung was responsible for 35% of them, or approximately 85.4 million units. Apple’s market share remained flat at 14% according to the firm’s numbers, and shipments of phones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform saw 165% on-year growth in Q3 to account for 4% of the market. Meanwhile, BlackBerry’s global market share



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