Further proof that Apple will never be a major player in the enterprise market with its current mindset. Why does Apple continually tout the selection of apps, when the enterprise market doesn't care about apps? Every enterprise smartphone does e-mail and voice. Not every enterprise smartphone vendor offers the appropriate support service level agreements, security controls, and lifecycle replacement schedules. Apple has none of these. Until they do, the enterprise market will continue to laugh at the i* as suitable for their business needs.
The 'enterprise market' cares about 'tools' and 'support'. Such trivial things have killed many good products in the past.
The apps are the tools, or potential tools. On the iPad for instance, a physician can view x-rays. THAT is something that is a tool. They could be in the cafeteria or the doctor's lounge and be looking at the x-rays of the patient that they just sent up. THAT goes a long way to greasing the skids of acceptance.
There are many avenues for the iPhone/iPad to enter the enterprise and people are coming up with more everyday. The idea that a person can go to the local Apple Store or one of perhaps tens of thousands of sources and buy their own Apple device takes a lot of the expense out of the enterprise leveraging the devices.
Sure, the Android tablets will make a dent in the acceptance of the iPad but with the already spotty issues with support and updates, the Android market will suffer from their own ideology and broad and thin manufacturer support.
Already, my little self, have evangelized several companies that I come into contact with and they have switched to iPhones just from the 'I want email from the office if it's important' avenue. Several people too have purchased iPads to hold corporate PDF information and also browse intranet and email, etc.
Enterprise seeks results from their tools. I predict that acceptance of the IOS devices will just grow over time.
And no one to my knowledge would ever offer a service level agreement on a smart phone. How, with all of the variables, can a provider guarantee coverage and signal. Lose-lose proposition. (Although I do operate in near bum-*uck Michigan at times and getting a usable signal is sometimes impossible)
Like all markets that Apple is involved in, it is theirs to lose. And Apple does have a history of ignoring some market niches and paying the price...