Nine Hot Consumer Technologies You Can't Ignore
Like it or not, these much-discussed technologies are going to have a significant impact on your IT department.
Apple iPhone
All will want, not all will get.
The iPhone will be hot, hot, hot when it arrives in June.
Apple's iPhone announcement caused a serious stir in the mobile phone world, which roiled only higher with the subsequent announcement of an exclusive arrangement with Cingular—and the fact that Cingular would require a two-year contract if you wanted to buy an iPhone. (There are only a handful of companies that would dare play this kind of "How bad do you want it?" chicken with consumers. Apple's one. The other, apparently, is Nintendo.)
Why You Should Care: If Apple sets the course for phones the way it did for MP3 players, your execs are going to be clamoring for these things—even if they aren't really designed as business tools. And the iPhone isn't designed as a business tool. But since when has that stopped your users from trying to make you support their favorite tech?
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