Apple’s move into enterprise continues unabated. Despite the imminent launch of Blackberry 10, it companies are pushing ahead with their adaptation of Apple’s mobile devices.
Eariler this week Bloomberg reported that, “the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates plane accidents, disclosed its plan to switch to Apple Inc.’s iPhone 5 in a document posted last week to a federal website. The BlackBerrys have been “failing both at inopportune times and at an unacceptable rate.”
RIM’s CEO Heins defended his company’s product by stating, “Many of these devices sit on BlackBerry 5 or BlackBerry 6, not even on BlackBerry 7, so the experience is not what I know and what other BlackBerry users know in the consumer domain. It is a three-, four-year-old experience.”
However, this appeal appears to have little effect on the folks in the enterprise. Today, The Channel website is reporting that the top UK bank – Barclays bought 8,500 Apple iPads for its employees.
According to the report: