iPhone sales beat out BlackBerry, rise 91% to 14.1M in Q4

In its fourth quarter earning results today, Apple announced that iPhone sales rose 91 percent year-over-year to 14.1 million units sold.

The iPhone’s strong sales led Apple to beat out Research in Motion’s 12.1 million BlackBerry phones sold in its most recent quarter.

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So what does this tell us? For one, despite the fact that the “antennagate” scandal forced Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 owners, consumers still wanted to get their hands on the phone — antenna issues be damned.

It’s also clear that demand for the iPhone 4 far exceeded anything in RIM’s stable — which isn’t a huge surprise. RIM’s only major hardware release in the last quarter was its BlackBerry Torch, which was received with lukewarm enthusiasm.