I don't know... by partnering with IBM, they deflect a little of the weight from those customers to big blue. Apple is still a consumer focused company. Apple t

I don't know... by partnering with IBM, they deflect a little of the weight from those customers to big blue. Apple is still a consumer focused company. Apple tried (and failed) to move Mac OS and Macs into the enterprise. I doubt they'll let iOS become beholden to it. One example of this is how long the iPad 2 was available. That was the first form factor that was adopted by enterprise for particular vertical applications (kiosks, custom apps, etc). Even though Apple kept coming out with new models, they still kept selling the old version, and made the new iOS versions as compatible with the iPad 2 as much as possible. But it didn't limit what they did with their new models. I see this going in much the same way, but with IBM acting as an intermediary between enterprise customers and the consumer-focused Apple.