[marcodave]

the original iPhone had no 3G (only Edge supported), no copy-paste, no app store (by design!), no MMS. Edit: and most likely no enterprise directory integration (Exchange et al)

BUT it felt the most futuristic piece of technology money could buy, and the high price point made it a luxury good that stood out of the Blackberries and Windows phones.

I like to think it was bought by CEOs and CTOs and executives who forced their IT dept. to support them because they were just so damn cool.

[blowski]

At the time, it felt to me like the first big iPhone user cohort was iPod power-users. I seem to remember business users dismissing it as a gimmick because of the lack of keyboard, wifi, and apps. That's only my personal recollection, though, I have no actual data.