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Apple Poaching Enterprise Sales Staff From Research in Motion
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You living in a cave, in RIM denial or short sighted? Sounds like you will suffer the same fate as RIM's CEO. Deny reality until it is too late.
Depends on where you live. If you take into account that the BB requires a License to be purchased [Typically $99 USD] for Enterprise use; $150 for the phone, and if I use AT&T [just for the sake of consistency], I can get a 2GB Data Plan for $25/month. A new 16GB iPhone is $199, no license is needed, and a 2GB data plan is the same cost as the BB; $25/month. So actually, the iPhone is cheaper.
Don't make blanket statements that it's more expensive period..it's not true.
Sounds like your phone has issues, or your email server has issues. Never experienced this on any iPhone I've used with Exchange 2003 - 2007...
Does the license needs to be renewed? If it is just one shot then moving to the iPhone means more expensive. But I agree it may depend on regions...in Europe most of countries do have to subscribe to a specific subscribtion for the iPhone which is as far as I know more expensive than BB. And as I said in addition the BB servers are more reliable, stable and fitting to enterprise...same thing with mail app. So those saying RIM is sinking, I am not sure Apple is yet to take over...will need at least 3 more years in my opinion assuming the catch up with their server and mail interface.
the BES server is $2500. add $4000 or so for the server hardware or the costs to put it on a VM. plus the CAL's and support costs if you want new versions and support.
the management is good for some organizations, but most companies don't care that it allows IT to ruthlessly control their phone
So what are you saying actually? For most companies (in general) BB would overall cost more or iPhone would?
cheapest VZW blackberry is $50 and $45 a month for the corporate data plan. with blackberries unless you have the corporate data plan it won't let you use MS Exchange email.
iphone is $199 and $25 a month
BB also needs a BES server that is going to run you $2500, plus $50 or so per user CAL and support and hardware costs. and someone has to be around to know how it works, add users to it, etc.
with the iphone management is done from the MS Exchange server
BB is still more secure if you need the security for trade secrets. but iOS is like MS Windows in the 1990's. it's good enough and has features that are better than the legacy competition for most users
are you kidding? that's how MS got big.
back in the 1990's you could buy the upgrade version of MS Office even if you were running a competing software and it would transfer the data for you. i thought corel and everyone else was so dumb not doing what MS was doing.
same thing with Windows. NT had hooks to work with Novell and Unix
Seriously. ****.
Go shave that 'fro from your avatar and conform to Apple like a slave.
Go read up 1984.
What?? You make no sense at all. Apple dumped the XServe due to sales, not because they didn't trust their OS. Get your facts straight...
Also, your observation of Lion is the same. They've added some scroll bars to look like the iPad, and are adding an APP store. How does that mean it's "dumbed down"? Pure FUD...
You despise the fact of how they sell their hardware/software, yet you bought it. Wow...I don't know if your dumb, or just restarted...both perhaps?
As evidence of Apple's strong push into the enterprise market for the iPhone, The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that the company has hired at least five key members of Research in Motion's enterprise sales staff over the last year and a half.The report notes that Apple revealed during its most recent earnings conference call that 80% of Fortune 500 companies are piloting or using the iPhone. During that same call, Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted that Apple had handily beat Research in Motion in smartphone sales for the quarter, and reported that he doesn't see the BlackBerry maker catching back up.Also on that conference call, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook noted that while Apple isn't offering business-specific hardware, the company is making a stronger push into enterprise sales as the iPhone's software has continued to gain features important for corporate customers. To that end, Apple has worked with its carrier partners to support corporate-friendly billing and other solutions for the iPhone and iPad, and has tapped partners such as Unisys to assist with supporting enterprise and government customers.
Article Link: Apple Poaching Enterprise Sales Staff From Research in Motion
Why apple want to poach enterprise sales staff, they themselves kill off xserve and now they want to go corporate sales...........
Dream on. Have you not seen how much market share RIM has lost in the last couple years?
The very fact that iPhone and Android phones can get most of the same email functionality as a BB without having to buy, integrate and maintain a BES (along with that additional cost to the end user who has to pay extra for the service) is already causing a huge migration away from BB. I'm watching it happen in my own workplace, and the sales/market share stats support my view. RIM is dead in the water.
Didn't say anything about RIM being "gone." I just said they're bleeding market share and being undermined by better products. I think RIM will never completely disappear, but, barring any stunningly brilliant moves, they are going to be transformed into a minor player in the next few years.
I would buy a 7" iPad. It's not just RIM who plans to release 7" form factor devices, Steve. Samsung's got a Droid-like device coming out soon, I believe. You've been warned.
More projection. Not everyone is as rabid in their beliefs as you.
Now your argument has devolved to my avatar; a sure sign I have won the argument.
More attempts to use sexual preferences and race as humor? This is 2010 and we have this sad display before us. You have to realize that just because you have lost an argument, you do not need to resort to such tactics.
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