Link: Will business buy the new iPhone? - Jun. 19, 2008. Yes. I am going out on a pretty safe limb here and predicting that the iPhone will soon have a huge presence in Corporate America. I don't have one. I am not getting one anytime soon. However, I do believe that the "hipness factor" will be enough to drive significant business use.
If you are a millennial you want one. If you are a tech savvy executive you want one. Nowadays it is smart to appear tech savvy. Your career could be riding on it. This is Apple's Trojan horse into the enterprise. It is not likely to disrupt the MS monopoly, but for Apple it is a step in the right direction. It will allow them to "pick off" additional fringe users (e.g. the graphics department) and provide strong inroads for the brand.
Now this is not an argument in favor of the iPhone versus the competition. The Future Lawyer is the authority on phone functionality and he has consistently made the case that his Treo is a competitive, if not superior, offering. But this is not about the quality of the product but rather the quality of the marketing. The iPhone is positioned to crush the competition. Jobs will simply out market them.
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