“There’s a good article over at Fortune about how Apple’s iPhone — always intended as a consumer device — opened the floodgates for Apple’s invasion of the enterprise with mobile devices,” Chris Nerney reports for Network World.
“This topic was covered in a March Network World feature that detailed the almost immediate impact of the iPhone on enterprises. As Chris Hazelton, mobile and wireless research director for The 451 Group in Boston, said at the time, ‘The iPhone enabled Apple to enter a door into the enterprise. But that door has been opened by employees already using the device,'” Nerney reports. “In other words, use of the iPhone in the enterprise was demand-driven, not command-driven by IT (‘these are the official tools you must use’).”
Nerney reports, “[Plus] iPad is being adopted in the enterprise perhaps more aggressively than even the iPhone, particularly in the financial sector.”
Read more in the full article here.