Comments on: U.K. businesses see barriers to iPhone adoption

Cost and network-operator restrictions are preventing chief information officers from considering the iPhone as a corporate device.

[NickH]

"Regardless of any functional benefit there may be"

Hey! it's a TELEPHONE!

Can it can place and recieve calls? Does it have a reasonable address book? Can it send and receive SMS, and email. Access to the internet would be good too.

These are the FUNCTIONAL reqirements of mobile handset, and you can address these for significantly less money that buying an iPhone.

The world has gone mad.

[rcrusoe]

Barriers disappear fast . . .

when the CEO comes in with an iPhone.

We didn't plan to support iPhones until they had been out for a while, but that changed when the boss rolled in with one the first week they were offered.

As it turns out the iPhone is a snap to support, and the number in our company is growing steadily.

[stevebert]

Where's the news here?

Seems like this article was published back in June, just substitute
U.K for U.S. A more interesting story, three months on, would be
whether the U.S. business embargo of the iPhone is as predicted, or
whether iPhones are, in fact, finding their way into the corporate
world.

[AlienEric]

iPhones

This is absolutely crazy, the price of the iPhone is just too high, even for UK citizens. They should just get unlocked sets from e-commerce shops like http://www.iphone-singapore.com/ and they don't even need to get tied down to 1 telco, unlocked sets can work all around the world, and it's so much cheaper too getting them from http://www.iphone-singapore.com/