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HP/Palm have one possible advantage: bundling for the enterprise. Give away a Palm phone with each purchase of a PC by corporate accounts. Apple essentially d
by pkaler 16y ago
HP/Palm have one possible advantage: bundling for the enterprise. Give away a Palm phone with each purchase of a PC by corporate accounts.
Apple essentially does this in the consumer market. MacBooks and the iPod Touch get bundled together during back-to-school season.
- mattparcher 16y agoNot a bad idea. Of course, corporate phones require significant support and build-out of infrastructure, whereas a consumer device just works, but RIM made a similar move with their buy-one-get-one-free offer in Spring 2009 for Blackberries, and it apparently helped to boost their (consumer) market share by 15%: http://news.cnet.com/blackberry-curve-outsells-the-iphone-3g/ http://news.cnet.com/blackberry-curve-outsells-the-iphone-3g...
- jrockway 16y agoI don't think the enterprise cares about cost; they care about control. For example, my work blackberry requires a 10 character password (that's not qwertyuiop, apparently), and they disable changing the wallpaper, ringtones, use of the camera, and sending text messages. Why? Because it's a checkbox, and clicking it seems like work. ("Yes boss, I did do a lot of work today. I ensured that nobody can steal our intellectual property by disabling the cameras on all the blackberries!" "Great work!")