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'40pc of iPhones sold to enterprise users'

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USA: About 40 percent of the Apple iPhones are being sold to businesse users. According to Ron Spears, AT&T's chief executive of its Business Solutions unit, the enterprise is viewing the device as secure, powerful, and even as a potential replacement for laptop purchases.

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Addressing a gathering at the Barclays Capital Communications, Media and Technology conference, Spears said 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," Spears said, "it’s just software. That’s all it is. And by the time the 3G came out in ‘08 they had solved about 80 percent of the security issues. By the time the 3GS came out last summer, most CIOs will tell you today they have very few issues around the security that they need provided as they have come to know that RIM can do it because of the way RIM provides their solution.

"So enterprises today view the iPhone as a mobile computer. It happens to have a voice application on it. But what’s important is what you can do with it, and the way you can mobilize workforces, and specific parts of your workforce, not the entire workforce."

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