Microsoft's Asia-Pacific head of smartphone strategy Chris Sorenson states that the iphone isn't that big of deal.
"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,"
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While I think the iphone is gorgeous, I think the Microsoft representative brings up some good points. I think Apple needs to decide what market they're after, the Blackberry/smartphones or the Music lifestyle phones. If they are interested in the Blackberry market, they must give the user the option to sync 'Outlook' and other third party applications with the iphone. Or stay the course and go after the music lifestyle phones.
Either way, they must get 3G integrated into the iphone by the next release of the model. No one wants to surf the net at dial up speeds anymore. Come on Apple, let's get this done!!!
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