Virtual Pants

Horace Dediu on RIM’s rapid decline. His charts are always fantastic. It’s not surprising that Nokia and LG are performing worse than RIM:

The number of BlackBerry phones sold fell 41% year-on-year in the last RIM fiscal quarter. Sequentially the fall was 30%. Though surprisingly poor, I note that Nokia’s smartphone business fell even more dramatically last quarter (down 50% y/y and 39% sequentially). LG also saw a 44% decline in unit shipments in Q1.