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iPhone Means Business

  • eweek, Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:55 PM
Challenging Apple's stigma as not business friendly, corporate use of the iPhone doubled since the release of the faster iPhone 3GS last summer, company COO Tim Cook said on an earnings call Monday. Cook said about 70% of Fortune 100 companies are testing or using iPhones as their corporate communications device -- largely credited to support for Microsoft Exchange. According to analysts, this gives the iPhone a fighting chance to take on RIM's BlackBerry.

Yet, winning the hearts and minds of corporate America remains uphill battle for Apple. For one, a year after RIM created a new BlackBerry client for IBM's Lotus Sametime instant messaging application, RIM said it would sell BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Quickr, and a new version of the BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections. As eWeek notes, "Those are the kinds of contracts that could serve the iPhone well in the corporate sector."

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