“British bank Standard Chartered has just announced that it is migrating its workforce from BlackBerrys to iPhones,” Skipworth reports. “Workers will now be offered a choice between either handset, or will be allowed to switch if they currently use a Blackberry. Given the scale of the company, which has some 75,000 employees, it could signal the beginning of a major shift in handsets for businessmen worldwide.”
MacDailyNews Take: Makes perfect sense; after all, Apple iPhone corporate users are happier, more productive. Smart businesses deploy Apple iPhones while those that don’t stand to get lapped.
Skipworth continues, “‘Once upon a time, there was nothing more secure than a Blackberry,’ said Ben Wood, an industry analyst with CSS Insight. ‘iPhone OS 3.0 however brought features like remote wipe and remote lock, features vital in a handset that’s going to be used by a big business. Companies in North America helped spearhead the growth of the iPhone as a work phone. Chief executives wanted the handset because it was the next must-have gadget. They then asked their company’s technology desks to adopt the phone, and slowly they rolled the devices out across the entire business.'”
MacDailyNews Take: But, an NPD smartphone survey that attempts to arrive at market share figures while (oops!) excluding U.S. business sales is twisted and abused worldwide by liars and/or ignoramuses and/or royal assholes who dispense disinformation for failing rags that laughingly call themselves “newsmagazines.” (It’s no wonder Newsweek is failing; employing royal assholes who report incorrect information in order to bolster blatant biases is a recipe for failure.)
Skipworth continues, “The iPhone has no removable battery and, despite firmware improvements to squeeze more life out of the battery, you still need to give the iPhone a charging boost every evening. BlackBerrys, however, especially the Bold 9700, use batteries that will continue to allow you to surf the internet, make calls and send and receive emails for several days. The removable battery also means a spare can be carried and put to use if needed.”
MacDailyNews Take: Non-issue. If you’re going to lug around an extra battery, you might as well do as smart iPhone businesses do and supply users with a protective case that also supplies extra power for heavy users. We use Mophie Juice Packs and there are many other options available on the market today. That way, it’s part of your iPhone, not another loose thing floating around in your bag or pocket or getting lost. We’ve found that people who complain about iPhone’s battery life not only have never heard of battery cases, but also have their iPhones set up all wrong because they do not understand how to maximize their iPhone’s battery life. “I leave all of my lights, TVs, and air conditioning on all time. I’ll tell you, whoever built my house must have done something wrong, because it uses so much electricity!”
Skipworth continues, “The App store alone is enough to make the iPhone worth buying. It allows developers to do some truly stunning things with the relatively simple hardware provided. Gaming, geotagging, internet radio and video streaming are all possible, and relatively easy to figure out on the iPhone. The bottom line is, every day that the App store continues to grow, BlackBerry falls further behind. No longer is hardware the most important thing in handset design; software is what governs a phone’s popularity and the iPhone outperforms the BlackBerry in this department in almost every way.”
“The problem that Research in Motion faces is that both it and Apple now tick all the boxes businesses need to adopt them,” Skipworth reports. “When it comes down to a consumer phone, the iPhone is miles ahead. This means unless Research in Motion does something relatively drastic with their OS, not only could they stand to lose out in the consumer market, but the business one too.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
One by one they join the revolution
What would we do without Fred Mertz?
I picture this guy surfing 100’s of news stories all day just to find the 2 or 3 that fit as fodder for MDN. I hope he leverages such work by being a finder for other sites. Not sure I would want his job.
Again, nice work FM!
Thank you, but it’s much less effort than you imagine.
Funny how hopped up mdn gets about stories like this. I really enjoyed the sentence about “lugging” an extra battery around as if a tiny battery is so heavy. It’s like there’s only 1 point of view in the world and if you don’t share it, then you are a jerk. Very amusing. Too bad the temper tantrum, vitriolic spewing children are in charge over there at mdn. Keep up the good work!
“It’s no wonder Newsweek is failing; employing royal assholes who report incorrect information in order to bolster blatant biases is a recipe for failure.”
It also makes perfect sense that Newsweek have a cross-promotional agreement with ratings-basement-dwelling MSNBC, another bastion for “royal assholes who report incorrect information in order to bolster blatant biases.”
When comparing the size of the iPhone to other phones, why don’t they include the size of the extra battery if it is so essential for other phones?
Yes, yet another crackberry addict who can’t handle the truth really is quite “Entertaining.”
Excellent points…so the next question is, will Android be capable of being adopted by big business?
As Lyons says:
“No, instead, Google was mocking Apple. Making fun of it. Laughing at it.”
Just like Michael Dell did all those years ago eh Dan?
All this may be true but Apple does not have buy one get one free. Until that happens…..
Plugging at night is not a problem.
I carry iPhone and Bberry. iPhone has better battery life.
The Morphie Juice Pack may give you extra battery life, but it destroys your reception quality. Not recommended!
My Blackberry has to be recharged every two days at a minimum.
I have it because we do not yet have iPhone, Alltel keeps promising next month…….several times.
I have used the iPod Touch though. Virtual keyboard is faster and more accurate than the tiny buttons on the Blackberry.
Blackberry app menu is confusing and illogical. Blackberry is ok, but will switch as soon as iPhone is available.
Also, maybe the biggest surprise of all to me.
Blackberry documentation and help is mostly 3rd party web sites and chat groups.
Very unprofessional.
Hey, how about the story of the super secret next generation Iphone that was stolen and recovered by an Evil organization ( Gizmodo ) but, said organization was unable to gather much vital information from the theft because of apples remote security features ( remote erase ). I think this one very public incident has been the best advertisement for the security of iPhone in the corporate world that apple could ever have dreamed of. Coincidence? Hmmmm.
“… will Android be capable of being adopted by big business?”
There is, in a sense, no such thing as “Android” – as anything remotely resembling a coherent, integrated eco-system that is systematically and reliably upgraded. If talking about adoption by big business, one needs to talk about which of the incredibly fractured hardware/Android version combinations they might look at. I don’t think they are likely to be interested in that jumbled landscape, to any appreciable degree.
Rest assured…. Hemdroid will be adapted millions of clueless bozos.
Isn’t this a repeat or, less charitably, a regurgitation of another MDN post. I will say, roughly, what I said then:
This makes me happier about Liverpool FC’s new sponsor. I sure hope they can keep Gerrard and Torres.
” and relatively easy to figure out on the iPhone”
HUH?
Oh, I forgot, he’s referring to corporate proles, I mean, “businessmen”. Maybe he’s giving them too much credit?