When the iPhone first launched, some wondered how the smartphone would work for businesses, given its lack of a keyboard. Still, the head of AT&T’s Business Solutions division, Ron Spears, says that sales of the iPhone to businesses have been quite brisk.
“Four out of 10 sales of the iPhone are made to enterprise users,” said Spears at an investor conference. “When the iPhone came out, what most people heard in the first year from ’07 to ’08 was ‘oh my God, it’s not BlackBerry secure. This is not going to work on the enterprise space.’ At the end of the day, it’s just software. That’s all it is.”
“And by the time the 3G came out in ’08 [Apple] had solved about 80 percent of the security issues, detailed Spears. “By the time the 3GS came out last summer, most CIOs will tell you today they have very few issues around the security that they need provided, as they have come to know that RIM can do it because of the way RIM provides their solution. So enterprises today view the iPhone as a mobile computer.”
Source: CNet
