According to a recent study, after the long awaited announcement of the Verizon iPhone, most of the user base for BlackBerry and Android want to, or will be switching to the iPhone when it releases this month. About half of Verizon Droid users plan to switch and nearly two thirds of Verizon BlackBerry users are planning on switching.
For Verizon, these numbers have to be seen as good news even though they predict a mass exodus from Verizon’s own in-house Droid phone. Better for Verizon to lose its Droid folks to a Verizon iPhone 4 than to an AT&T iPhone 4. For Apple, it’s overwhelmingly good news if the study bears out into reality next week, but also a sign that a Sprint iPhone and a T-Mobile iPhone are needed in order to take advantage of the fact that many or even most BlackBerry and Android users would apparently rather be on an iPhone. This was already overwhelmingly anecdotally obvious, but now there are numbers (at least in survey form) to back it up. And it also means that while there may be hell to pay later when a Verizon iPhone 5 shows up sometime in 2011 and early adopters of the Verizon iPhone 4 are left wondering what happened, the specter of a soon-ish arriving iPhone 5 is clearly not hampering sales of the Verizon iPhone 4 in the mean time.
But for us BlackBerry Addicts, enthusiasts and fans, this is not good news!
Let us know in the comments if you plan on leaving BlackBerry for the long awaited Verizon iPhone?