Do you have a chance to win Apple business market with the iPhone?

After the launch of the iPhone SDK last year Apple began the embodiment of its next ambitious plan: the introduction of a smartphone to the corporate sector (as BalckBerry competitor). phone iPhone has received support features such as push-mode mail, address book, calendar, service Global Address List, VPN-connection and "Remote device wipe» (Remote Wipe). A year later, I want to know how Apple plans materialize. About it and says columnist Gigaom Jordan Golson (Jordan Golson).

During a recent conference call on the results of the company for the last quarter, Apple COO Tim Cook (Tim Cook) answered a number of questions of analysts. Mr. Cook said that more and more people are interested in the iPhone 3GS after the release of the model and the new iPhone 3.0 firmware. He claims, that the smartphone is popular among both small firms and large companies, and even government agencies, there are those who use it iPhone. Almost 20% of the Fortune top 100 of Forbes purchased, at least 10 thousand phones each. There are those who have equipped 25 thousand of its employees communicator iPhone.

Like Apple, and Research In Motion, maker BalckBerry, to reap huge profits from the sale of their devices. However, it BalckBerry more popular among corporate employees. They enjoy and Eric Schmidt (Eric Sshmidt), general director of Google, as well as a member of Apple's board, and US President Barack Obama (Barack Obama). So that Apple will still have to work hard to win over more customers from among corporate customers.