According to this Forbes article, it will be difficult for the Apple iPhone to become popular with businesses.
In response to Apple’s announcement to add Exchange syncing to it’s 2.0 iPhone firmware:
“It’s like if you want to be a great baseball player. You don’t just go out and buy a bat and glove and think you’re done. They’ve got to learn how enterprises work,” says Mort Rosenthal
“We think the iPhone will continue to appeal to a niche willing to pay for the sizzle of leading-edge technologies,” says Sean Magee, senior vice president of information technology at Ricoh Americas Corp. “While the touchscreen, overall presentation, data management and navigation are cool, at the end of the day it is just an overpriced PDA with a lot of challenges in front of it.”
It’s all speculation right now, but do you think the iPhone has what it takes to work with businesses?
Originally published on Pocketnow on March 20, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.