A Not So Perfect Storm

"The gales of the Blackberry Storm gales just weren't strong enough to wash away Apple's iPhone success... The Storm seems to have severely underperformed in customer satisfaction. And now, the latest figures from Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) show that it has underperformed in sales, too," Daniel Ionescu reports for PC World.

Another "iPhone Killer" under performs, and the unit sales really tell the story. The iPhone outsold the Storm 4:1, two million units versus one half million units during the same period from November 2008. The user experience with the Storm has been a big problem, the phone suffering from numerous glitches and bugs. It never works well when you rush a product to market, which is apparently what happened here. I don't have much experience with smartphones, since the iPhone is the first one I've owned (I've always been a flip-phone man), so I may be a little spoiled. Anyone out there have a horror story with an "iPhone killer?"