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BlackBerry’s prospect in Australia appears bleak, as industry experts predict the brand will continue to lose business market share to the Apple iPhone 4S as well as Android alternatives during the next year. Local users were spared glitch of last week that saw the BlackBerry customers in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Canada and the U.S. lose messaging and email access for nearly four days.

The blackout could not have appeared at an inferior time for Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, co-chief executive of BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion. The pair faces a rising chorus of calls to give up as institutional sponsors to push for a control spill or sale of the underperforming device retailer. James Turner, Industry forecaster at IT Research Company IBRS said that RIM is facing heavy layoffs in Australia.

"I see them die loudly, protesting all the way that they have not become obsolete," said by Turner."They have to get something out of the pretty amazing hat." In the past, the BlackBerry has conquered the commercial Smartphone market in Australia, subsequent to Windows Mobile lost its technique.

It enjoys a market share of 52 percent of organizations with over 2000 employees, according to telecom research company Telsyte. Apple iPhone, although, is likely to have enlarged their penetration into large companies from 25 percent in late 2010 to same levels to those of the BlackBerry later this year.The trade market has been sold to its management, security and reliability, but this strength is increasingly threatened, as the popularity of the iPhone in the shopper market spills over into the business.