German Bank ditches BlackBerry for iPhone, Apple puts chink in RIMs armour

[brinx38]

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For years, suit-and-tie circles have bowed to BlackBerry as the king of corporate communication, but iOS has been creeping in on enterprise territory, calling into question RIM's sovereignty in the boardroom. The folks at Deutsche Bank Equity Research struck the most recent blow to RIM's enterprise dominance with the announcement that they'll buck BlackBerry for iPhone, following a trial using Good Technology's secure email app. The company tested the app in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server, delivering AES 192-encrypted email and calendar data to employees, and, according to the firm's research analyst, the iPhone proved an easier and faster solution to BlackBerry. Last summer, AT&T announced that 40 percent of iPhone sales are enterprise, and we just reported on RIM's possible move to devices beyond the BlackBerry. We're not saying it's off to the guillotine with the old standard bearer, but it definitely looks like there are new contenders for the enterprise crown.

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Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...lackberry.html

[kalel17]

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Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...lackberry.html

Nothing really big here, Nokia is the second largest enterprise smartphone in the world and is still way off from BB, ence iphone should be even farther away from BB.

[hv_thugg]

Nothing really big here, Nokia is the second largest enterprise smartphone in the world and is still way off from BB, ence iphone should be even farther away from BB.

What you really talking about? Blackberry big in the caribbean.

[kalel17]

What you really talking about? Blackberry big in the caribbean.

SMH... read my post again I said both were very far off from BB in the negative sense... basically meaning that BB is way ahead in the Corporate sector.

They have been saying that of the iPhone from 2008 and BB is still holding strong.

[Krems]

Currently a BlackBerry shop, Deutsche Bank noted two "minor" disadvantages to the iPhone/Good combination being tested against RIM's BlackBerry/BlackBerry Enterprise Server package.

The first was that Good's app sends push notifications of new messages, but does not download emails in the background, requiring the user to open the app to get new messages (BES pushes email "as it arrives or in small batches" the report said.)

"The other under-appreciated feature on the Blackberry," the report stated, "was the blinking red light to signal new email. The iPhone has no equivalent which was a point of frustration as it required logging into the app frequently when awaiting a specific email."
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sorry...but how are these "minor" disadvantages? especially when the best thing they had to say for the iphone was

The report specifically noted "the ability to carry a single device with a great UI and have access to multiple apps (like Bloomberg, for example) far outweighed these issues."

"In aggregate, we found the iPhone UI was very usable and the touch-less vs. physical keyboard debate is a function of personal preference and perhaps ‘fatness of fingers’. Versus the Blackberry trackball, the iPhone interface is vastly superior is terms of speed and accessibility and prioritizing key emails and we view the Blackberry trackball as archaic and cumbersome."

Blackberry trackball? wtf were they considering to buy? rim phase out trackball from god knows when

better the article say that the person in charge of IT is a Apple person an done...

[jomo]

what the hell is this, yawn yawn yawn

[chig]

Just like most of the world, companies are moving on from RIM's 1996 technology.

[Krems]

it doesnt make sense however, if what they're moving to has less features, and what they're moving FOR is "interface"

[chig]

Interface is important. And I dont know about iPhone but on Androids your Gmail is pushed instantly. Sometimes it reach your phone before it reach other stuff like iGoogle

[pezz]

I dont see why they dropped bb for iphone. with a reason for communication.
I think bb has communication on lock down over the iphone.