Thursday, February 28, 2008

iPhone

IPhone has been a great hit eversince its release...My own view was it is going to be very popular with in the consumer space while I was not sure of the impact in the enterprise space.

The latest findings state that iPhone has been a great hit in the enterprise space as well as seen from the below link from zdnet:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6232280.html

59% satisfaction levels in the business customers is a great achievement for the recently released mobile phone, which leaves RIM to the second place, which has been a established player in this space.

My own assessment is that iPhone is going to change a lot of dynamics in the coming months in the Mobile ISV and Enterprise space considering that iPhone SDK is not yet available. ( It should be available soon - next 2-3 weeks ).

Following activities are bound to begin in the next few months:

- Porting of application on other platforms to iPhone
- New applications ( using enhanced features of iPhone )
- More and more partnerships !
- Market share of each of the incumbents changing significantly forcing them to innovate or partner.

In my view iPhone and Android are key happenings moments in the mobile world ....We will need to still see if they can turn out to be the 'defining moments' ...

1 comment:

Vadiraj said...

COuple of additional thoughts/challenges based on my reading :

- Security : Encryption is not yet fully supported.

- Sync : iPhone may not support push email and OTA calendar sync, which is very critical for business applications

-No enterprise remote management support which is critical for enterprises.

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