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So, I'm at the airport with the usual business traveler crowd and I look to my right and I see three individuals, brief case in hand talking on iPhones or reading email. I turn to my left, and there are two more people reading email on their iPhones, that made six of us at one spot at one time and all of us appeared to be on business trips. I would say the iPhone is making inroads into the business world.

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I've had a similar/funny experience recently... At an airport as well. Someone iPhone rang with the default Marimba ringtone and I must have seen 5 or 6 people reach for their iPhone, myself included.

May 28, 09 - 12:18 pm Comment from: jarrettdailynews

I see quite a few iPhones daily myself with my clients. One common theme is that people who are windows users start asking me questions about the Mac. I let them know that the iPhone experience is great because it was perfected on the Mac side of the world. Then I give them knowledge most didn't have, directions to our local Apple store.

Say LA County Sheriff's department issues blackberrys and "recommends" them to get one. But, many carry the iPhone as a second phone. If Apple could get a solid connection to their email system, I think they would be more switching over to the iPhone instead of Rim Blackberry's.

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May 28, 09 - 12:59 pm Comment from: MizuInOz

I was at a late night clinic tonight and there was a guy with an iPhone and his Blackberry. He was taking calls on the iPhone and watching a vid and then when he received a msg from his Blackberry, he almost was embarrassed to pull it out.

He looked over at me (with my iPhone watching a movie while waiting to see the Doc) and had a very "I'm sorry, Mate" look on his face.

It was classic!

My business partner has both and he is always using his iPhone until the battery goes dead and then he has to begrudgingly go back to his Blackberry.

Apple needs to do some serious re-invention of the battery in an iPhone.

I will never use anything else but my iPhone. I have a Mopie Juice Pack and it lasts all day and into the night.

Cheers from Downunder...

It's not just business people moving to the iPhone. The guys installing my new kitchen cabinets use them as well. The installer's ring tone sounds like an emergency klaxon! When I first heard it I thought, "What the hell!" Me, I make do with an iPod touch.

May 28, 09 - 01:14 pm Comment from: Predrag

I've known several situations where the employer simply can't deploy iPhone, even when there's great will. Most of these are Lotus Notes installations. Until IBM develops a truly native (push notification-enabled), full Notes client for the iPhone, these shops will continue to pinch their noses while deploying Blackberries. Quite a few friends of mine are forced to carry both, since iPhone is the device of their personal choice, and BB is required for work.

We're waiting, IBM. You've got hundreds of developers; you HAVE the Mac client. How difficult can it be?

May 28, 09 - 02:08 pm Comment from: Brau

""Now a new subculture has formed—solution providers and third-party vendors that create solutions for businesses on the Apple Mac platform"

I can attest to this in my own city where in the last few years a number of business oriented Mac Guru services have opened up.

When you use the Tube in London you can almost guarantee that there will be at least 1 iPhone user in the row of seats you're in. More often than not there are more than that. I don't take the train a lot, but I've never seen someone actively using their phone like iPhone users do - even when without a signal - thank you app store. Not business related but it speaks volumes.

May 28, 09 - 02:31 pm Comment from: Micro Me

No increase in Mac use in my workplace. Last week, after a year of threats, IT finally installed one of their PCs in Micro Me's office and disconnected his Intel iMac from their network, on the grounds that it is a "security threat". Yeah, right.

The PC is an unbelievably crappy Lenovo with a monitor that looks like a Gaussian blur, a cooling fan that sounds like a jet engine on a test rig, and a keyboard with the tactile feedback of reinforced concrete. From its glacial performance, it appears to have Windows XP Professional Media Centre Ultimate Super Business Edition installed on it, and its user can browse the internet using the cutting edge Windows Explorer.

For the moment, Micro Me is allowed to keep his iMac as a "Laboratory Device", on what he assumes is a "Don't ask, don't tell" basis. So, at least he can continue to get some work done.

Is Micro Me sore about this? Is the Pope a Catholic?

This acidic first person discourse will now end, and Micro Me will resume his normal role of spreading joy across the surface of the planet.

Now, what was it again? Oh yes, Control-Alt-Delete to continue.

I stopped reading after the first sentence, "Apple Computer's iPhone is not the only Apple technology that is gaining traction in business." for as we all know, there is no company named Apple Computer!

May 28, 09 - 03:28 pm Comment from: ken1w

In other related news, AAPL is up some more to close above $135.

May 28, 09 - 03:47 pm Comment from: cptnkirk

I was in the plastics department of my local hospital last week with an infection. I was busy putting away my iPhone and earbuds when the doctor arrived. She immediately said "how do you like your iPhone. We all have them there. We're hooked." She said the medical applications where astounding.

May 28, 09 - 04:15 pm Comment from: Zune Tang®

The IT guys where I work aren't falling for cute little logos, not-so clever advertising or proprietary gear like other foolish companies appear to be doing. How can expensive MACs be justified in the enterprise? They can't. Windows PCs are just as good as a MAC and they're cheaper.

Bring it MAC fangirls.

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I did my bit recently... My old company (magazine publisher in London) had a Windows-worshipping IT department whose only response to my requests to replace our creaking G4s was the D word (rhymes with Hell!). I started with a new company two weeks ago, and on my first day convinced the MD to join the Apple ranks. So we'll soon be taking delivery of 20 shiny new Macs (mix of Mac Pros and minis). Yey!!

It is interesting to note the increased variety of small business software out there. My business just switched to Endicia for our postage needs, and a big reason for it was the fact that it offers Mac-specific postage software that is very easy to use and highly functional. Used in conjunction with one of their scales, we can weigh packages and print properly formatted labels with ease from our iMac.

May 28, 09 - 06:57 pm Comment from: ShelbyMac

I can finally say that my company is windows free. As of May 1st we are 100% Apple. Both of my POS terminals (Powerbook G4 and eMac) and my back office computer (PowerMac G5) are Macs running POSIM. Also the PowerMac runs surveillance software from Security Spy. I carry an iPhone and my home office computer is an iMac.