Microsoft’s Chris Sorenson: Apple iPhone is irrelevant for corporate customers
April 22nd, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 77 times, 1 so far today
Microsoft’s Chris Sorenson: Apple iPhone is irrelevant for corporate customers
Apple is due to enter the mobile phone industry by launching their Apple iPhone mobile phone in June this year. The phone combines the capabilities of three devices in one product. It would function as a MP3 player along with an internet access device. Of course, it would also be a regular mobile phone.
Microsoft already has a presence in the mobile phone market with their Windows Mobile platform. As per sources, around one hundred and forty phone models already run Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system.
Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific head of Smartphone strategy Chris Sorenson has said in a statement that they believe that the Apple iPhone would be practically useless for enterprise and corporate customers.
He said: “It’s a great music phone, and I’m sure it will be fantastic and have an interesting user interface. However, it’s a closed device that you cannot install applications on, and there’s no support for Office documents. If you’re an enterprise and want to roll out line of business applications, it’s just not an option. Even using it as a heavy messaging device will be a challenge.”
Apple iPhone would be powered with a customized Mac OS X operating system and Sorenson said that the mobile users prefer familiarity with the Windows Mobile interface.
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April 22nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Is Microsoft scared of iPhone?
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-Gandhi-
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Of course the iphone is useless in a corporate environment (anything non-Microsoft is…). The thing was built to replace an Ipod and a cellphone. Then again; what can one expect from a company that sells stuff that can mostly be replaced by open source stuff anyway. What is this corporate environment by the way? The horrible places in their ads? Dear Mr. Sorensen, Gates and Ballmer; iphone will be HUGE. Now let us hope, for your sake, that Apple is not interested in the corporate part of mobile business…
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:46 am
I never really expect the iPhone to replace stuff like Blackberries in the work enviromnet, for one because it is an Apple product. All of today’s buisnes people have had Microsoft diven into them (sadly) so much that the transition to Apple would be very tough, not to mention heresy for some. What I believe is that it is going to be more popular among young adults and college students, you know all those ones that have a Blackberry and cleary don’t need one. I believe that the iPhone will in fact make it into the buisness world but not with the current generation of workers. The newer generation probably will bring it in since it is younger people that will most likely be buying the iPhone. As we (yes I’m in that generation) grow older we will take the iPhone with us (since we are used to it) and it will eventually surpass or equal the newest Blackberry like product. This is gonna be big in about one to two years.