New Delhi: Things are not looking good for the smartphone maker BlackBerry in overseas as well as Indian markets. The struggling Canadian firm, which so far has failed to come out with a concrete plan to regain its lost market share, saw its smartphone sales declining in India in the third quarter of 2013.
Data released by International Data Corporation shows that the company sold around 68,000 units in the July-September '13 quarter, which is a whooping 55 per cent less as compared to 1.5 lakh units it sold in the earlier quarter. The story is all the same on a year-on-year basis.
The IDC report suggests that BlackBerry's Q3 2013 global market share was a low 1.7 per cent. In contrast, BlackBerry's closest rival, Windows Phone, achieved a worldwide market share of 3.6 per cent. Clearly, all is not well with Blackberry.
The IDC data shows that out of total smartphone units shipped during the third quarter of 2013, Android accounted for 81 per cent of the total units. However, during this period, Microsoft's relatively new Windows Phone OS saw a phenomenal 156 per cent growth, mostly in Nokia devices, which experts say is at BlackBerry's expense.
