Over at The BlackBerry Beat Russell Shaw posted about minutes from a meeting where NASA found the iPhone unsuitable for use in the enterprise, but approved the BlackBerry 8800 and Treo 750.
I'm personally a little surprised that a business would even consider the iPhone. Not because of missing features, but because of AT&T's complete lack of corporate support for it. Shortly after the iPhone was released, Apple reached out to some of their favored customers and offered them a pair of contract-free iPhones at an agreeable price.
The only catch? You can't add the iPhone to a corporate account or use it with a corporate SIM. I don't know of many large businesses that want the hassle of adding an personal plan just to test a new device. Especially a device that (according to Verizon) has a number of security concerns for business users – like a camera and the rumored location-awareness1.
Whereas RIM started out in the enterprise market2 and is just now making inroads in the consumer market with the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl, it looks like AT&T is going to halfheartedly attempt the opposite with the iPhone. Eventually,
- Using GSM triangulation [back]
- Let's be kind and forget about the AOL Mobile Communicator [back]
