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Apple pitches Iphone at corporates
AT&T and Apple are having a go at flogging the fruit-themed Iphoney to the corporate market.
After a year of stiffing brain dead consumers, it seems that the pair are hoping to do the same thing to the slightly older and wiser corporates.
Looking at the 'corporate plan' for the Iphone it appears that rather than getting a discount for bulk, a company will pay an extra $25 per phone. This makes a corporate eligible for a super soaraway discount of $25 a month until the end of the year, but for the rest of your two year contract you have to pay the extra $25.
So, not only is the phone running at a spec below a Blackberry, if you really want your company running on an Iphone, which cannot manage 3G then you have to pay more for the joy.
What AT&T and Apple appear to have forgotten is that corporates are less influenced by marketing or consumer frenzy. Any company accountant who allows the purchase of a phone which is more expensive and does less than its rivals will be fired and replaced by someone who knows their job.
Already it appears that the Iphone is tanking in Blighty's consumer market simply because the more sophisticated Brit customers can add up. If trained accountants look at Apple's figures then it is most like they are going to tell the salespeople to go forth and multiply.
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You are a brazen moron and a dishonor to the profession of journalism.
Since we don't have the Iphone here in Australia, I can only postulate it's merits - if I had 1 I would love the big screen, touchy-touchy 1 @that. I think it having WI-FI would be good to look @stuff whilst in bed. Since I am not very smart, the Iphone doesn't have to be either - who wants a phone smarter than them? I would probably use the 'notes' thingy and check my progress with the map app...Speaking of apps, Installer would be a good name for nice goodies made by other peoples...I might even watch a U-2be video or listen to Steve's real cash-cow, I-croons...I might even take a picture and send it to my wifey!! 
But since we don't have them here yet, it's all just postulation!!!!
Two words: Enterprise Messaging.
you know what.

Why don't you clearly explain exactly how a blackberry is better specked then an iPhone.

Also while your at it, WHICH blackberry are we talking about?

Please leave behind discussions of the relative merits of Edge vs 3G as this is NOT an advantage in Blackberry's favor. 
3G barely covers Connecticut in the US and in Europe its a joke--despite the HYPE. 
Further the Blackberry's media and web browsing limitations more then counter its use of 3G, I have a BlackberryCurve 8310 from verizon, and it SUCKS at web browsing or playing most media files.

I hate trendoid iPhones as much as the next person, but I hate it even more when journos such as yourself, do the Dvorak or Enderlee, and propagate FUD for the sake of selling an article, and for the sake of keeping an anti-apple byline. 

Time to fess up boys.
show us the goods.
The iPhone is a great consumer device. It unifies many of the features most consumer want in a sleek package. Too many gadget fans who have never worked in a large corporate environment try to view consumer grade products as suitable in an enterprise environment.

It is NOT a business ready phone. The lack of support of BES and MS ActiveSync are major shortcomings. Without the ability to centrally manage the device, no large corporation with adopt iPhone.

Just yesterday, someone being let go "forgot" his Blackberry at home. It was promptly remote wiped and any corporate data on it was removed. A few weeks back someone lost his MS SmartPhone during lunch. The device was also promptly wiped.

The plans offered by AT&T are not at all attractive nor cost effective. Using a Blackberry Enterprise plan, those on the road can send and receive unlimited emails without the roaming data restrictions.

I personally do not like Blackberries but acknowledge they are the best enterprise grade communication handheld.
Iphone my mack and he tells me where to go forth and multiply.
Consumers can tolerate being locked out of their platforms (for their own good?), but enterprises will see closed platforms as a serious liability --- especially as competitive offerings show up in the same form-factor as the iPhone.
See as usual, fanboy strikes back.
Many, many, many phones have web browsers. Have had browsers for many moons!

Now until Apple employs current 3g technology no company will employ their phones. Unless you're talking about the graphic design shop that employs 4 people and olive colored plastic chairs. That isn't the business this peice was referencing.
I am a iphone business user who had the iphone pushed on to me by my daughters school. I got my daughter the iphone for xmas 06 when she was still in middle school. However when she began high school this year, the iphone caused too much attention at school and after a few students tried to steal her iphone, we had to trade phones. I was using an HTC 8525 for my work.

It's been difficult for me. The iphone just barely can function as a business phone. The recent fixes done for IMAP made the transition a little easier since my employer has an IMAP mail server.

I have a serious complaint though. If I receive a call while trying to do a calendar event, document, whatever, the app does not continue to run in the background like a MS Smartphone would. When you get a call while doing pretty much anything other than using the ipod part of the iphone it just dumps whatever data you were trying to input.

This will drive the serious road jockey NUTS when he has to re-enter all of the same data in a calendar event time and time again just because they keep getting a call.

I have found that the only recourse is to set the iphone to "flight mode" while entering data in to the iphone.

I'm really irritated by this. Apple, you need to fix this ASAP.
I think you are being too negative on iPhone. After debating between an iPhone and Blackberry, and even taking into acct of the current weakness of only Edge network, I am extremely happy I got the iPhone. Until there is another phone that could allow u to surf the internet like iPhone, I must declare Apple iPhone is the best thing since sliced bread. The speed of the Edge network, while not instantaneous, is more than sufficient for vast majority of my needs.