Survey: Corporations warming to the iPhone
Smartphones — and in particular Apple's iPhone — were the only bright spot in ChangeWave's November survey of corporate IT spending for the next 90 days, an otherwise dismal forecast that research director Paul Carton described in terms ranging from "huge nose dive" to "historic collapse."
Asked whether they planned to spend more, the same, or less on information technology in the next quarter, the 1,926 respondents came back with answers that were almost universally pessimistic. Only one in 10 said he or she planned to spend more, while 45% said they expected to spend less — this at the time of the year when planned outlays for IT usually take an uptick.
"We keep looking for a break in the gloom," Carton told reporters in a conference call Thursday. "We're just not getting it yet."
The only positive sign Carton could find was continued growth — albeit modest — in plans for smartphone spending, with 35% of respondents reporting their company plans to buy smartphones next quarter, up 1 point from August.
As shown in the chart below, Research in Motion (RIMM) is still clinging to its nearly 80% share of planned smartphone purchases. But Apple's (AAPL) slice of that market continues to grow, especially among small-to-medium sized firms, with 22% of companies planning to buy iPhones in the next quarter, up from 17% three months ago.
According to ChangeWave, the iPhone is now the No. 2 smartphone in the workplace, with a 14% share, as Palm's (PALM) share continues its downward spiral, falling from 15% of corporate smartphones in August to 11% in November. (See here.)
The iPhone scores even higher in ChangeWave's surveys of consumers. See for example the July report, in which 56% of consumers surveyed said they wanted an iPhone, compared with 23% who were holding out for a BlackBerry.
ChangeWave's latest corporate survey was conducted from Nov. 6 to Nov. 12 among ChangeWave Alliance members involved with IT spending in their organization.
From the Changewave Alliance Web site:
ChangeWave runs a proprietary network of 15,000 highly qualified business, technology, and medical professionals referred to as the ChangeWave Alliance. Alliance members are credentialed experts in leading companies of select industries who spend their everyday lives working on the frontline of technological change. (link)
The single tasking IPhone is a toy compared to a multi-tasking Curve or Bold.
You play with an IPhone, you get work done with a BlackBerry
IBM has developed a mobile version of Lotus Notes for the iPhone. If Big Blue has warmed up to it, it's definitely worth noticing!
guy corp can warm as much as they wanto, iphone is lacking a version with keyboard which most corps dont like. in addition appl does not have a data center like rim, security is an issue, no push mail. rimm still has a strong foothold in business and with recession i dont see buisnesses running out for iphones. especially if it works dont fix it
I posted here already and someone erased it, I wonder who would do that?
The iPhone is a toy compared to the Treo and Blackberry. The facts are clear it is simply an iPod with a phone. The piece is not your businessmans side kick. Poor speakers, off and on ring switch poorly placed, keypad (forget it) that does not flip so you can use both thumbs, brightness control that is so darn time consuming to adjust, thin and slippery casing, more glamour than useful, only retains 2 days of "recent" calls (the Treo holds like, forever!) Overall, 6 out of 10, bottomline is it needs a menu key, like the Treo, that brings options up quickly. Believe me, this iPhone is not a good replacement for any Treo or Blackberry……period!!!
Apple should have looked at real business phones before they make the current toy!!!
Usn't this POSITIVE FOR APPLE and NEGATIVE FOR RIMM??? Yet AAPL is down $5.47 today and RIMM is only down $3.78!!!
ex ped: Ah, but RIM was down 8.41% to Apple's -6.72%
Phil what's up with the stock though bro? I mean holy bejesus it's at pre-iphone levels???? Crazy eh?
ex ped: You should see the other guys.
Such silly comments. Sounds like the same arguments that a window OS was a toy and a real business OS was text based(MS-DOS). Sounds like a plant from the MS FUD department. Today there are over 10,000 app in the App store. We are developing a REAL enterprise app for the iPhone and NOT the Blackberry. Why? Because the things we are doing on the iPhone are impossible on the Treo and Blackberry.
See my post. In my opinion it is game over for RIM, they just do not know it yet. http://blog.cosential.com/?p=166