According to an interview on Bloomberg, a Ford spokesperson has confirmed that the company will be ditching Blackberry and instead switching to Apple in a 2 years rollout plan. The second-largest US car maker will switch around 3,300 employees by the end of this year to iPhones, with a larger rollout of about 6,000 more employees receiving the Apple smartphone next year.
“We are going to get everyone on iPhones – It meets the overall needs of the employees because it is able to serve both our business needs in a secure way and the needs we have in our personal lives with a single device.” Said Sara Tatchio, Ford spokeswoman.
Ford is also planning to recruit a mobile technology analyst who will watch over the “global deployment of corporate iPhones” for Ford. The company has close to 182,000 employees around the world. It’s not clear how many other employees will receive iPhones.
The deal comes after Apple and IBM sealed the deal on a new enterprise collaboration.
