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Apple (AAPL) Has Huge Jump In Smartphone Share

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appleApple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is coming very close to becoming the preferred smartphone in America, which would topple RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) from the top spot. The new iPhone 3GS is giving the company startling momentum as it gains on the Blackberry.

New research from ChangeWave shows that RIM is still the share leader in the smartphone business with 40% of the market,  but Apple has moved up to 30%.  The numbers for the Blackberry maker are even worse going forward.

During the next 90 days, 36% of those planning to buy a smartphone plan to purchase an iPhone. Only 27% plan to buy a Blackberry. The data is based on a poll of 4,255 consumers taken between September 14th and the 21st.

Apple also holds a lead in customer satisfaction with 74% of its owners saying that they are “very satisfied” with their iPhones. RIM comes in at #2 with a “very satisfied” figure of 43%. At the bottom of the ranking for customer satisfaction are Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

Many analysts thought it was only a matter of time before Apple moved into the lead in smartphone sales in the US. It appears that process may not take very long.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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