I ran across an article on the BlackBerry Stor, and how RIM and Verizon hope that the second generation device will catch on more - but I think this piece of data tells the story:

R.I.M. has been slow to develop touch-screen technology, and its BlackBerrys are sluggish at browsing the Internet, industry analysts say. And developers have written only about 2,000 applications to run on BlackBerrys, compared with 85,000 for the iPhone and 10,000 for Android phones.

Android has been around for a shorter period of time, and it's already got five times as many apps. I wonder how much of that is due to Verizon's longstanding tactic of crippling phones on its network? It'll be interesting to watch them with the Google Phone, because they'll have to stop doing that.

The sleeper no one talks about is Windows Mobile. HTC just shipped a bunch of new phones built on that, and their market penetration has to be pretty decent. For an OS that has "lost" already, that's interesting.

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