“Gartner Inc. today upgraded its assessment of the iPhone based on the business-focused improvements in the 2.0 version to be launched in June, and it predicted IT groups will get a flood of requests for iPhone support from users,” Matt Hamblen reports for Computerworld.
“With iPhone 2.0, ‘Apple corrects the basic omissions of the first iPhone release, noted by Gartner early on, and [iPhone] becomes attractive to enterprises,’ the analyst firm said in a six-page research note,” Hamblen reports.
“Principal author Ken Dulaney said the improvements in the upcoming version ‘will open a huge volume of business users’ for Apple Inc. Still, he said, the iPhone won’t be ready for broad application development because IT shops have little experience with the iPhone and with the modified version of the OS X operating system that it runs on, Dulaney said in an e-mail,” Hamblen reports.
“In the report, Gartner briefly mentioned a range of ways IT shops can prepare for iPhone development and support, including hiring developers familiar with mobile OS X and even acquiring Macintosh computers and training for those developers,” Hamblen reports.
Full article here.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]