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Corporate-Friendly iPhone Could Challenge BlackBerry - Barron's

Danial Magid - do you need the dial pad to dial something like 1 800 FLOWERS? - if you hold down alt key and put in the letters, it will dial the correct number for you. a nice trick they employed.

Corporate-Friendly iPhone Could Challenge BlackBerry - Barron's

"With 278 million Exchange and Notes users, and only 12 million BlackBerry subscribers, the corporate smartphone market is still wide open."

This sums it up, the corporate market is still under penetrated by a huge margin. There's plenty of business to go around for BOTH to kill it over the next several years.

The high price point on the iPhone will keep massive migration from Blackberry (features aside). Imagine any large enterprise dumping all their Blackberries and spending $399 to replace every device? Seems implausible.

iPhone will sell well in the small and medium business segment where some of RIM's features are less important and the web browsing capability (Safari IS iPhone's true killer app) trumps the necessity of quick, secure, push email, remote wipe, wireless policy control, PBX integration, etc.

We'll see what happens this week, but just Exchange and Lotus notes compatibility isn't a game changer, it's an incremental step for Apple that should have been accomplished from the get-go. If they have more to offer, then great, but just adding more compatibility and trotting Saleforce.com onstage is not going to unseat RIM in the large enterprise segment.

The larger point still is about the first quote above. Add the consumer opportunity for Blackberry and iPhone and both should fare well in the coming years.