Now that I've had a chance to look at Research in Motion's most recent quarterly results, which were robust, one can make a comparison between what RIM did, and what 9to5mac.com expects Apple to announce it has done. Namely, 9to5mac.com expects Apple to announce sales of five million iPhones in February.
RIM sold 3.9 million Blackberries in its most recent quarter across more than 100 carriers and 13 product lines. It isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. The two companies have different quarterly "endings," RIM finishing Dec. 1 and Apple Dec. 31.
Plus, it isn't clear what time period the five million iPhones were sold over. 9to5mac.com does not indicate a belief that all five million were sold in one quarter, and one suspects that isn't the case. Make it 3.5 million or so devices in the quarter.
What is interesting is how well Apple would have done, should it report anything like five million devices over even two quarters, given its early status in the market.
Apple has been selling one model of a GSM iPhone in four countries with just four carrier partners; while RIM, with a huge head start, is sold by more than 100 carriers, and features 13 different product lines.
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