“Yesterday another Wall Street law firm told its attorneys that the firm would support the iPhone for work email. The announcement added that employees who chose the iPhone would have their data plans paid for by the law firm,” John Carney reports for CNBC.
“Credit Suisse has a pilot program allowing employees to use iPhones, according to people familiar with the matter,” Carney reports. “Bank of America has begun phasing in iPhones, according to one person at the bank. JP Morgan Chase is reportedly experimenting with the iPhone. Skadden Arps buys iPhones for attorneys who choose them, and pays for the data plan.”
Carney reports, “The message from Wall Street is clear: quasi-monopoly Research In Motion has enjoyed over the business mobile phone market has cracked [and] yhe breaking of RIM’s monopoly is not confined to Wall Street. According to Apple executives, 80 of the Fortune 100 companies are supporting or testing iPhones.”
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Better is – just better!
My company requires me to carry a BB and I’m actually getting embarrassed to be seen with it in public.
But, I am sure that RIMM will soon give you a buy 1 take 4 or 5 more deal. Where is the HOPE and FAITH.
Man, don’t turn from the dark BlackBerry side. What, do you want to be happy with your smartphone choice!
Why has it taken so long?
I never did get the blackberry infatuation. Last Sept I was on a family vacation and my nephew (a crackberry addict) let me play with his phone, after ten minutes of dubious confusing ui/navigation I declared it useless to me..
I think the fact that the UI and Navigation was so awful speaks volumes for the BlackBerry fan-boys. Their mind is a messy, confusing, sometimes scary place..
I would hate my life if I worked at a company that dictated what phone I could use.
what else could have been expected?
@MacBill:
The company dictates which phone you can use for _work email_. You’re perfectly free to use any phone you want for personal communications.
@ employe and @ Truth,
Y’all got it right! You guys (y’all boys) are funny! Laughed at both of those insights. …embarassed to be seen in public…, …mind is scary, etc. place…! Great! You got it right.
Just sure values. Too risky to pickup a brand wich might desapear one these next months…