Tuesday, July 21, 2009

iPhone adoption in the enterprise to climb




















In its quarterly investor report, Apple executives said that 5.2 million iPhones were sold in the quarter, a year-over-year unit growth of 626 percent thanks to the release of the iPhone 3G S. The new iPhone is currently constrained worldwide, and managers couldn’t say when the supply problem would ease. In addition, the supply issue could slow upcoming introductions in some world markets by a number of week, executives said.

Just as interesting were the statements about acceptance of enterprise and government market customers for the iPhone. In Tuesday’s analyst conference call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said the company saw great opportunity in these markets.

According to Oppenheimer, some 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies had placed orders of 10,000 units or more. And some governmental agencies had made orders up to 25,000 units.

The security and encryption features of iPhone OS 3.0 is the difference, he said.

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