Recent rumours that Apple was on the cusp of making a major corporate account sales breakthrough to put its new G3 iphone into the hands of 200,000 of (banking conglomerate) HSBC's employees worldwide have been denied by the company. HSBC will be sticking with the RIM blackberry as its corporate smartphone of choice. There is no confirmation or denial of whether recent reports of user problems with the iphone (reported at this blog earlier) influenced this outcome. However, big business has historically been reluctant to embrace new technologies (such as the latest releases of Microsoft's Apple's PC software (Windows / Vista)) until they have been battle tested and de-bugged. Apple's competitive strengths have historically been limited to design and marketing for individual retail market distribution channels. Nothwithstanding some analysts have deemed the iphone "business worthy"
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