Doppel,
I see your angry, you don't have to be uneducated also.
I am angry, yes. Suffering this thing knowing other people have phones from the 21st century is a constant frustration.
My phone takes over four minutes to boot up. Its screen is as small as a postage stamp. Even on wi-fi its browser is crap, on 3G damn near worthless. It is slow taking pictures, and lately it's taken to randomly rebooting. It is a 9650, a 2.5 year old phone, but the iPhone didn't suck this much 2.5 years ago. This is OS 6.0. Maybe I could upgrade that but no upgrade will make a piece of crap hardware not be piece of crap.
The phone has a fantastic keyboard.
I will miss that. But otherwise, no I won't go back to Blackberry unless I work for a company that forces one on me before RIM goes belly up and stops making phones. There is one person at work I know who's gone to a new blackberry when he could have gone to iPhone. However, this person has demonstrated an incredible ineptitude in other areas of his work and life also. The rest of us are going to iPhones and I've heard no regrets. The local site's wireless administrator yesterday when I expressed my raging hatred of the phone said he "hated" his blackberry also (now iPhone, too).
The 2 million increase is coming from chumps, frankly. It's sure not in the US as the company is dead here because we have real alternatives.
I have not used a droid phone but everything tells me they are the sloppy seconds version of the iPhone, for people too cheap and/or hate apple to get an iPhone. This is surprising since for example a Galaxy S iii costs the same at verizon as an iPhone.
We all know there is iPhone and there is everybody else. That's just the reality of the market.