iPhone: Redefining the Smartphone

After Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced the iPhone this week almost all were awed by the technology and design of the product. Yes, the iPhone has a huge potential to take Apple to leading position in an huge market, that of mobile phones, but this might not be were its potential ends.

Ever since its introduction by Apple, Safari has been the fourth browser in anybody's list of major browsers, if you are not a Mac user. IE, Firefox enjoy a much larger market share and Opera has been around for quite awhile and has been responsible for introducing many landmark features to the browser, such as tabbed browsing.

In one swift stroke, Apple has changed that scenario, dramatically. Safari has just become the most sophisticated and complete browser for a mobile device. Being a full blown browser, Safari stands stands Gulliver in a land of Lilliputian mobile browsers.

Once the iPhone is generally available, its adequacy for widespread use as a Smartphone by corporations will be put to the test and unless some serious design flaw is found it should leave its competitors looking frighteningly old and inadequate.

With this move, Apple may indeed be scoring big points in the corporate market, even if it is in a market where no one expected it and if it is only as collateral damage in its strike at the consumer market.