[Wayne]

I generally love Apple products but the iPhone SUCKS for typing - I have never owned an iPhone myself but I use my wife's iPhone all the time.

The Blackberry has many other shortcomings but for emailing, texting and IMing it is far superior to an iPhone. I have also had an iPad for about a year and I find that it also is inferior to the Blackberry when it comes to entering text - I am far faster typing on my Blackberry than on the iPad as well.

 

[Wayne]

The other trend that has happened recently is that many teenagers actually prefer a BB to an iPhone due to BBM which they use constantly. It has become somewhat of a "killer app" for smartphones, at least from a non-business perspective.

 

[Wayne]

And then again the move to cloud based computing or web apps could see a return to a centralized computing environment where the users have not much more than dumb terminals to use.

I also think that corporate systems are going to start to lock down a lot more in the future to prevent against cyberattacks since these are becoming more and more prevalent - see the article in the G&M a week or so about Bay Street legal firms under cyberattack from Chinese hackers.

 

[Wayne]

Who pays for the hardware in this model - employee or company?

 

[Wayne]

I saw that but if an employee isn't happy with an iPhone and wants to switch back to a BB that gets very expensive for companies unless they can redeploy the unwanted iPhone.