40 percent of US iPhones are sold to enterprises
Research #Enterprise #Nokia #Nostalgia #iPhone · 1 comment
by Horace Dediu
Four out of 10 sales of the iPhone are made to enterprise users. When the iPhone came out, what most people heard in the first year from ‘07 to ‘08 was oh my God, it’s not BlackBerry secure. This is not going to work on the enterprise space.
At the end of the day, it’s just software. That’s all it is. And by the time the 3G came out in ‘08 they had solved about 80% of the security issues.
So enterprises today view the iPhone as a mobile computer. It happens to have a voice application on it.
via AT&T exec: 4 out of 10 of our iPhone sales to enterprises | ZDNet.
Compare Apple's approach to that of Nokia:
Microsoft and Nokia have formed a global alliance to design, develop and market mobile productivity, communications and collaboration solutions.
Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will begin collaborating immediately on the design, development and marketing of productivity solutions for the mobile professional, bringing Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia’s Symbian devices.
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Tom Ross ·
That debunks the spin that was put on the NPD numbers (which showed iPhone at 21 % and Android at 28 % in the US consumer market). Combining both stats from NPD and AT&T, Apple is still clearly ahead in the US, even with their old model.