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Computerworld interviews IT personnel on iPhone; ignores key facts.

“Apple Inc.’s announcement last week of a new iPhone designed to be more enterprise-friendly provoked a mix of curiosity and concern among IT managers who are weighing whether their organizations should purchase the trendy handheld for business use. The verdict: Apple still has both hardware and software issues to work through before the iPhone is likely to be widely adopted in corporate environments,” writes Matt Hambien for ComputerWorld.

What are the main reasons, you might ask? Well, the article focuses on one, and mentions another in passing. So, these “issues” currently amount to two, one of which is entirely unfounded. I’m actually amazed this article was even published, given that simply by watching the keynote at WWDC 2008 (that’s called “research”) the entire premise of this article is knocked out from under it. But enough of that. What’s this big problem? Find out after the break.