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iPhone in Your Business: Pondering the ROI Case

Also...I was hoping to see the ROI numbers in this post. Running a Blackberry service or Goodlink is pretty expensive. I'm familiar with the cost profile at the small business level, but not at the personal or large corporate level. As we chug the numbers today for our company the ROI on Exchange/Iphone is looking very appealing vs the old Goodlink install.

Mr Dignan...as a follow-up post please post a high level cost profile of the three ways to now get OTA PIM sync. It would be very interesting for many of your readers.

iPhone in Your Business: Pondering the ROI Case

I manage a small company. We run exchange server with Goodlink but are getting frustrated with poor mobile devices (death of Palm, Win mobile sucks) and the cost and complexity of support . We were about to switch to GoogleApps Premier.

The new Apple/MSFT combo is very appealing. Zero cost to add full sync and admin to our mobile devices. It might cause us to stay on Exchange and adopt iPhones (which are bleeding in at a high rate anyway)

Research in Motion: Unlike Apple, No Slowdown in Subscriber Growth

This is an absurd post. He uses rumors of an iphone production cutback and rumors of an iphone price cut to confirm his original belief that the iphone was priced too high to succeed in the market. This is the major thrust of the story.

There is simply no logic here. Current massive price reductions by one company (RIMM pearl at $90) are a sign of strength while future price reductions at another company (APPL iphone rumor) are a sign of weakness. And there is no mention that RIMM is not raising its revenue numbers. The real story is that both RIMM and AAPL are benefiting from exploding demand in advanced phones. The iphone is in such high demand that there is a hot black market for the device with people hacking them to run in markets not yet supported. Mentioning how the competition will catch up to the iphone while not mentioning how the market will catch up to a blacberry shows further bias. This blogger is a hack and should be ignored.