Monday 7 July 2008

Apple iPhone - a generational thing?

Had an interesting exchange with a colleague at the end of last week about the iPhone. It was prompted by an article on the web http://www.b2bm.biz/news/?groupId=&articleId=28579

To me, the iPhone is a personal phone that has an uphill struggle to be accepted as a mainstream business tool. Cool but useless for business was my view.

My colleagues is gen 'Y' and his take is that the iPhone interface is the way forward and the rest had better watch out. I was taking a thinking approach and he was taking a feeling approach - seems like a classic generation divide. Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of the argument it will be his generation in charge of corporate purchasing soon! Need I say more?

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