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Posted by: Brian Catt (Monday 9 June 2008, 11:30 PM)

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It might be fit for business and some rich showoffs.

Perhaps you misread me or I miswrote myself.

The only use I see for it is to run mobile corporate applications as a better/other form of smartphone. For most non techies a moby is for making phone calls and sending texts, maybe the odd picture. So consumers don't need most of the things an iPhone does, or the added cost of real time mobile access they can get for free on a decent screen and KB at home.

Anything other than business related time sensitive value added applications are better done at home or office on a full PC, period. So much easier and cheaper to wait for real screen and keyboard and all you can eat broadband for free. So no business case for anyone other than highly mobile users or those with a corporate application required on the move. Also a fashion product for rich Americans with too much of the world's money and not enough work.

I would ban them as a CIO, their users are probably independently minded loose cannons who won't follow corporate security policies and endanger the whole business for appearances.

Is that clear enough - the iPhone will have a small rich market and will continue to be very much a discretionary purchase by geeks and fashion victims who will never learn how to use them properly , not must have, a waste of money as a productivity tool - it isn't.

Unless its sold at the same price as ordinary smart phones like an N95, say. Then you can choose between touch screen and proper keys.

Hardly any real USPs or compelling applications, and not even a proper QWERTY keyboard. Who sold you that, then?

IMO

Brian Catt
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