When it comes to a consumer oriented smart phone, the iPhone is right up there at the top of the list along with your favorite Blackberry and other phones. However, until recently, the iPhone hasn’t really been noticed nor used as a business oriented phone. With recent updates including Exchange and other business features, this has changed. So much so, in fact, that J.D. Power and Associates has found Apple’s iPhone to be ranked #1 in business user satisfaction in their latest survey of 1,388 smart phone users. Click through to after the break for some more interesting numbers.

Interesting numbers after the break.

The iPhone 3G was such a big hit that there were lines for the product even for a few days after it came out. This was bound to bring shortages, and it did. In fact, Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster says, “I bet we’ll see these problems for another two to four weeks. Early demand has been more than they expected [because] they knocked it out of the park on the first weekend.” He may be on to something as Apple’s stock website is still showing low amounts in most places.

Mr. Munster says this low stock could be from unexpected, sustained demand for the iPhone, as last year there was only a large initial demand. “This is a more sustained outage, and the demand seems to be sustained,” he said. Furthermore, he points out that this year the iPhone was launched world wide, meaning less stock for the United States.

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Marketcircle, a popular purveyor of Mac organization tools, has officially announced it is bringing the Daylite Productivity Suite to the iPhone. The application has been named Daylite Touch, and can be expected by year’s end. Daylite is an application currently in use on many business Macs, and provide the users with a group calendar, address more »

“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.