Blackberry vs iPhone in the corporate world
Yet another article about how RIM is maintaining their edge over Apple.
Corporate IT buyers have known about Apple's (AAPL) new business-friendly iPhone features for a few months, but they continue to strongly favor rival Research In Motion (RIMM) and its BlackBerry line, according to a new report from ChangeWave Research.
In May, 82% of respondents who plan to buy smartphones in Q3 said they plan to purchase a RIM BlackBerry, up from 77% in February. Meanwhile, 13% of would-be smartphone buyers said in May they plan to buy an iPhone, up from 11% in February.
The thing not considered is that in most cases IT has to fulfill employee needs immediately - meaning that they buy BB because it's the best of what is available at that moment.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that more would *prefer* the iPhone, if only to lower the cost of BB maintenance and server licenses. But they currently don't have a choice, thus inflating the numbers for the BB and enabling them to propagate the myth of the iPhones failure in the workplace.
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- Posted: Jun 6, 2008 by Scott McDaniel
- Tags: apple, blackberry, iphone, IT, links, news
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