“So Microsoft is out there saying that the iPhone is useless and irrelevant to business or lacks business savvy,” AJ blogs for Marketcircle. “Maybe they need to be more clear and argue that the iPhone is irrelevant to the enterprise. I can buy that argument, but business in general, especially small business? I don’t and can’t buy that argument. My stance is that the iPhone is the best small business phone out there. The reason: It’s flipping easy to use!”
“iPhone has the multi-tasking Mac OS X at its core. Mac OS X already trumps Microsoft’s Desktop OS, never mind their mobile OS. You can already read MS Word documents with Mac OS X out of the box using TextEdit. As a developer, I can tell you the .doc reading capabilities are right in Cocoa. You can open PowerPoint documents in Keynote and I’m sure Apple has something up their sleeve for Excel documents,” AJ writes.
AJ writes, “The iPhone OS is plenty capable. I think it’s a matter of timing. Apple is releasing the most powerful OS a mobile device has ever seen. That in itself is a major challenge, never mind dealing with developer kits and whatnot. Let them get the basics right first.”
“We all know that there are more consumers and small business users than there are enterprise users,” AJ writes. “The iPhone has everything that a small business needs… When the time is right and the economics make sense, I’m willing to bet dollars to donuts that Apple will have a process of getting third party apps on the iPhone.”
“So again – why is the iPhone is the most important small business phone? Because more business users will use it because they want to use it, instead of being forced to use it,” AJ writes.
AJ writes, “Microsoft must be worried about Apple delivering a better OS on a device than they can on a desktop, otherwise why bother with all the FUD?”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Rainy Day” for the heads up.]
When all you have is FUD, FUD is all you have. One of our favorite lines: “Mac OS X already trumps Microsoft’s Desktop OS, never mind their mobile OS.”
For the record, I called way back when iPhone was announced, that iWork plus the spreadsheet would have mini-versions on iPhone that could read MS Office files.
I am the king. You heard it here first.
Thank you and goodnight.
iPhone will really suck. I mean, I spent hours editing Word documents on my cell phone every day…
wait a minute…
iPhone can access the web. If and when Google makes Google Docs usable with Safari, then what more do you really need in terms of business software? Doc files, spreadsheets and wouldnot…
Am I missing something?
Steve Ballmer kinda looks like a big ‘Elmer’ FUD.
@ ChrissyOne
“The knights who say Nay” actually say ‘Ni’
Just for the record, but had a good laugh thinking about that movie. Long time ago I saw it. Should still have it somewhere on a DVD.
Cheers
Luc
I know dahling… I know.
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hi i am anna i have a mac and i really want a mac book if i come to the apple store in columbia do i get a discount!?
I’m sorry, but who the fsck dials a phone while driving? Bluetooth and Contact lists, jackholes.
Some people make drinking water sound difficult when they don’t like the colour of the glass.