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Apple Eyes the Enterprise Prize

Jan 17, ’11 7:32 AM

Ever since its debut nearly four years ago, enterprise mobile phone users have been snapping up the iPhone and using it much to the chagrin to IT departments around the world. Apple saw this, and added much-needed features like native Exchange support, Cisco VPN capability and remote management. These are table-stakes features today, and Apple is returning to one of its competitive strengths to continue to differentiate against Android and put enterprise leader RIM in an even tougher position.

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Why CDMA Why Now?

Jan 11, ’11 7:30 PM

Today’s Verizon iPhone announcement came as no surprise. Even though their CDMA network is aging (and will be superceded by LTE), and Apple famously doesn’t invest in dying technology, there were strong business motivations for creating a CDMA-compatible iPhone. Android has come on strong and taken a market leading position – probably catching Apple off-guard.

Horace Dediu of Asymco makes an astute observation, pointing out that CDMA represents about 16% of the world’s mobile market, or about 543 million subscribers. Verizon accounts for about 90 million of those subscribers, or about 1/6th of the CDMA market. If we assume 10% of the 543 million switch to the iPhone — this would mean 54 million new subscribers, not too shabby considering there have been just over 70 million iPhones sold in total over the past 3.5 years. Shrewd business move.

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iPhone Application Addictions, er, Additions

Mar 7, ’09 12:51 AM

A little lighter fare for this weekend. For people like me who are into their mobile devices, their selection of apps reveals a bit about their personality. I used to get excited to try out new apps, which come out daily. But now, figuring out what screen to put them on stresses me out!

There are now over 25,000 iPhone apps available in the iTunes Store but the iPhone has slots for 148 applications, or 9 screens full of apps. Even if you bought all 25,000 at a cost of US$71,442, many are pointless (Bubblewrap anyone?) And until Apple provides an easy way to manage them, except manually dragging icons around from screen to screen, I’ve become less inclined to experiment with potentially time-sucking apps. Of the 7 screens of apps I have, I’d say screen 2 is by far the most heavily used one. I think I use most of these everyday and some several times a day. My recent post on juggling priorities and availability of various applications on the iPhone help narrow things down to just the essentials above.

Looking at my most heavily used screen, the top row shows that I am a news junkie. Yup, guilty as charged. You might wonder why I have both the NY Times and USA Today apps  and for good reason. The NY Times app until very recently, was pretty crappy and unreliable so I used USA Today as it is much stabler and faster. Plus it has more sharing features, like sending URL’s to text messages or Twitter.

Row 2 tells you that I’m rather food-obsessed with 4 dining apps in the second row, but these are just the tip of the iceberg! I have a whole other screen chock-full of other food-related apps, including one specifically for espresso drinks! OK, enough about that.

The third row is where things get ultra practical — subway schedule/map, flight tracking tool, note taking app and weather. Row 4 is about socializing, from instant messaging to microblogging to full-on blogging. You know, gotta have various ways to kill time in airports, traffic or boring meetings. Not like that ever happens to you now, does it? Maybe I should use that time to figure out what applications to download next.

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