Lame joke from CNET about Surface Phone.

[slyronit]

1. Almost no one wants to carry a second business phone anymore, everyone is doing BYOD.
2. The argument that "MS doesn't want to target double digits anymore" will not work for anyone apart from enterprise, because no app maker would want to make apps for a platform with less than 1% market share among fanbois and enterprise.

 

[slyronit]

I believe there is, and I believe the Elite X3 is a prime example.

"Am I the only one who thinks there is no market for a business phone?" - There, I corrected you.

 

[RumoredNow]

To be fair, Daniel Rubino and Zac Bowden also seem to think that Elite X3 is a business phone. I believe that it is as well. So adding to leonelfunes32 that makes 2 definite yes answers and 2 highly likely yes answers.

For those who want to score this metric...

 

[slyronit]

No one argued whether the X3 is a business phone or not. The point is, there's no market for a separate business phone. Almost no one wants to carry 2 phones anymore.

Business phones were popular during the heydays of Blackberry, where a person's regular phone was most likely not a smartphone or didn't have good email capabilities. Today BYOD is the norm.

My last job was at one of the world's largest ISPs. Our company had a policy that either you could install "Good messaging" on your smartphone and claim your phone and handset bill from the company, or the company would provide you a company phone (locked down), first Blackberry, then phased out in favour of Windows phones. Even though Good messaging was a clunky app which didn't update in the background and you needed to type a lengthy password each time you opened it, everyone except three people (me included) didn't opt for a company phone. Our office had close to 500 people.

Back to present day, my current company has a similar policy, but instead of Good, they use O365 and I don't know anyone else who has a separate company phone. They all use the OWA app.

 

[theefman]

At the launch of the 650 Microsoft pushed it as a "business" phone, so what exactly is it that makes a phone more suited for business than another? What makes the HP more business suited? The reality is apart from the power (and so far all reports are that its only marginally better than the 950/XL in performance) there's nothing about the hp that makes it more of a "business" phone over any other continuum based W10M device.

Plug any other device into a dock and you get the same thing the hp gives you, albeit a bit slower. I'm not sure what spell this device has cast over people but it's really nothing more than a beefed up Windows device, nothing more.

 

[slyronit]

I think the key difference is HP's virtualization services which bring Win.32 apps to the phone, but most people carry laptops etc anyways.

 

[Leonel Funes]

"Am I the only one who thinks there is no market for a business phone?" - There, I corrected you.

To be fair, Daniel Rubino and Zac Bowden also seem to think that Elite X3 is a business phone. I believe that it is as well. So adding to leonelfunes32 that makes 2 definite yes answers and 2 highly likely yes answers.

For those who want to score this metric...

You didn't correct anyone, you just reworded someone else's post to your own understanding... I'm not the only one that understood what was asked the first time

 

[camaroz1985]

I don't mind the digs at Surface Phone or Windows Mobile, just didn't think it was a funny list. Oh well, moving on...

 

[Vasil Dechkov]

Even if a "business phone" was a thing in the Blackberry days, imo the idea of such a phone today is dead.

Sent from mTalk on a 535.

 

[Vittorio Vaselli]

Am I the only one who thinks there is no such thing as a business phone?

Sent from mTalk on a 535.

It is not about the phone itself but the way you sell it. They will sell big quantity to companies that will give it to their employee, Often with specific apps built for the specific job, and accessory specifially designed for a work task. Also these companies often pay a monthly amount and receive loan devices, assistance and services. Think about big companies with thousands of employee, governments, school, hospitals, police departments ecc;

 

[kaktus1389]

They wanted to make it funny but they failed. It's not that I think they want to say anything bad about MS, to me they only seem desperate to get attention.

 

[BenIsCool]

Why so serious man