BlackBerry vs. iPhone? Not so much …

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Jun 16, 20081 min

Whereas the iPhone’s coolness factor will appeal to image-conscious execs, the vast majority of the business users won’t give up their BlackBerrys anytime soon.

“The BlackBerry is boring next to the iPhone, but it is the quintessential, always-connected messaging device. Its operation is second nature to professionals, and you can trace that objective back 10 years to its original design,” Tom Yager explains in Bye-Bye BlackBerry? Not so fast.

Tom Kaneshige explains that given BlackBerry’s numerous advantages, “Apple no doubt hopes the mobile turf war shifts to the browser. Nearly everyone drools over the iPhone’s supercool browser.”

Even if that were to happen, Yager maintains, “the world would have to change for business users to use the [mobile] browser as the primary means to access their applications and data.”