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This statistic illustrates the number of BlackBerry smartphone users in the United States from 2010 to 2021. In 2018, the number of BlackBerry smartphone users had fallen to *** million in the United States.

Blackberry users in the U.S. - additional information

In 2014, almost ** million of the projected *** smartphone users in the U.S. will own a blackberry device, equating to just under * percent of the population. This marks a sharp fall from the **** million users in 2010 (over * percent of the population). This alarming loss of customers means that Blackberry recorded a loss of around *** billion U.S. dollars in 2014, in contrast to the profit of almost *** million U.S. dollars in 2010.

In 1999, RIM (Research in Motion) released the first of its Blackberry devices in the form of an email pager. Providing real-time push-email communications has been one of the main selling points of Blackberry devices ever since with services such as Blackberry Messenger providing the integration of all communications into a single inbox. Despite waning numbers in recent years, the *** millionth Blackberry smartphone was shipped in September 2012 . Most recently, RIM has undergone a platform transition, changing its name to Blackberry Limited and making new devices on a platform called ***.

The downturn in Blackberry’s fortunes can be attributed to the increasing dominance and popularity of the Android and iOS platforms in the marketplace, which combined held over ** percent of the U.S. smartphone market in 2013. This has seen RIM’s global market share plummet with it contributing just *** percent to all global smartphone shipments in the first quarter of 2014. Blackberry has also struggled to compete with Android and iOS in the app market, with just ** apps available in Blackberry World, in contrast to well over a million available both in the Google Play store and the Apple App Store.