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Why IT Isn't Buying the iPhone

Posted Dec 13, 07 2:55 PM CST in Business,  Technology 

(Newser) – Your company's IT department isn't just being snotty when it refuses to support iPhones. Fortune runs down 10 ways Apple's new baby is problematic for business:

  1. Your infrastructure has to be configured to get business email and calendars
  2. It won't support third-party apps
  3. You can't encrypt data or otherwise secure it
  4. IT can't remotely lock or wipe an iPhone when it turns up missing

  1. The lack of a tactile keypad is a real pain
  2. Has limited service provider support and no flexibility
  3. There's no business discount on the price tag
  4. It's not good business to buy error-prone first-generation devices
  5. The battery's irreplaceable
  6. No company has done it yet

Source Fortune Magazine

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A visitor to the Apple Store West 14th Street uses her iPhone on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007 in New York. The latest Apple retail outlet in New York, which opens Friday, has two floors of Apple products and...   (Associated Press)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an Apple iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco, in this Jan. 9, 2007 file photo.. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)   (Associated Press)
A customer tries out an Apple iPhone at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif., Oct. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)   (Associated Press)
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