Michael Bettiol over at the Boy Genius Report is reporting that 40% of iPhones are sold to corporate customers.
This is astonishing! It seems like only yesterday that the Blackberry (or ‘the crackberry’ as it was known) was THE mobile phone for the corporate employee.
Now, with early security concerns largely addressed, the iPhone has stormed into the heart of the corporate world, perhaps driven by employee demand (sometimes quite vocal).
As Michael also asks, has the iPhone with its myriad applications replaced the laptop for the mobile user? Is your iPhone more like a miniature-sized laptop with a voice application on it?
Mine almost is. If we had in Australia the ‘all you can eat’ data plans that they have in the US I’m sure I’d use it even more, but at the moment the small virtual keyboard and my larger fingers keep me from using it as my only on-the-road tool.
But what joys await us with version 2 of the iPad? Will THAT be the platform that will run my powerpoints, give me a full-size keyboard, let me compose and layout documents, write blogposts, edit images, edit sound files… AND let me multi-task? I do hope so…
