“The analyst firm Gartner will tell IT executives to keep Apple’s iPhone away from their networks, in a research report to be released within a week,” Jon Brodkin reports for Network World.
“The iPhone, scheduled to ship in the United States on June 29, appears to be a great consumer device but has no redeeming qualities from the perspective of a business user, Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney says,” Brodkin reports.
“Businesses have little, if any interest in the iPhone and Apple isn’t marketing it to the business sector anyway, says Randy Giusto, who leads IDC’s analysis of mobile devices, computing and computer markets,” Brodkin reports. “‘The iPhone is not positioned at all for the IT world,’ he says. ‘It’s a very personal device. Most corporations are probably not going to support the iPhone on their networks.'”
Brodkin reports, “Apple may not be making a direct appeal to enterprises, but AT&T is betting that business users will want the iPhone, the IDG News Service reported in April. AT&T plans to market the iPhone to business users and is making sure its backend enterprise billing and support systems will accommodate the device, the report stated.”
“A 451 Group analyst agrees the iPhone has no place in a business, and thinks the new product won’t even live up to its hype as a consumer device. Tony Rizzo, director of mobile technology research at the analyst firm, doubts Apple’s assurance that the iPhone’s battery will provide up to eight hours of talk time, six hours of Internet use, seven hours of video, and 24 hours of music playback,” Brodkin reports. “‘It doesn’t have any features that would make it successful as a business tool. The other question, is it even going to be successful as a consumer device?’ Rizzo says. ‘I’m not giving up my BlackBerry. I like the keyboard, I like the trackball and I like the service.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
Smell that? You smell that? It’s pure fear. Nothing else in the world smells like that. We love the smell of fear in the morning. Smells like… victory.
The reason for such a campaign against iPhone? Money. Lots and lots of money and the fear of losing a good portion of it to Apple… The other phone makers, the other mobile device makers, and the other makers of so-called “smartphone” software understand the massive threat Apple’s iPhone poses. They have no recourse but to start up the FUD campaign, desperately hoping to slow Apple’s assault on the market. There is so much money at stake that things will get very nasty, very quickly. The chits will be called in and the articles will get written… The real Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt is being felt by all of the companies that Apple [has] humiliated… They are very scared and rightfully so. – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, January 10, 2007
Wow, I can’t wait to email these bozos in a year and see what they have to say about these FUD articles then.
Ex-cellent!
MW: office — the iPhone will dominate the office.
We put the F in FUD.
Wow what a blatant hit piece this is.
This hit piece sponsored by ____________ (fill in with any CE company’s name)
Tipping point. =)
Ken Dulaney: “The iPhone… appears to be a great consumer device but has no redeeming qualities from the perspective of a business user”
Except that its far better than any other business oriented smart phone out there with more capabilities and more promise than all the rest combined.
It’s business oriented shortcomings will all be overcome in time, possibly sooner than later. It already surpasses the rest of them in many areas, including many that relate to businesses.
For example you could load up a slide show and run it from your iPhone with a proper cable. What other smart phone could do that?
…..doubts Apple’s assurance that the iPhone’s battery will provide up to eight hours of talk time, six hours of Internet use, seven hours of video, and 24 hours of music playback.
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The iPhone battery WILL NOT handle all of these estimated times combined..
It is either 8 hours of talk OR 6 hours internet, OR 7 hours video OR 24 hours of music.
While I am not getting one (the wife has denied that purchase request) I know FOR SURE if I wanted to use it on my company’s Exchange server, I could do it… wanna know why?
I’m the guy who makes that happen. It’s my Exchange Server… security problems? Yeah, like all the other security problems I have with my fleets of Macs on my network.
Again… I am what IT Douchebags fear… I speak both PC/Mac
This story is FUD… pure and simple.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
“‘It doesn’t have any features that would make it successful as a business tool.” WTF? Are these guys high? The maps, mail, weather widget, contact organization, the way it handles voicemail, stocks widget and web access alone make this thing a fantastic business tool. This piece just reads as “I’m a blackberry drone, so iPhone is automatically bad and I must try and detract from it!”. Anyone who can’t see how fantastic a business tool the iPhone could be shouldn’t be doing business in the first place and is probably poor.
Helicopters on the horizon….
Ignorance is bliss. Irrational statements are for/from morons.
Let them be stuck in the backward world of psuedo technology with their blackberry, when it works.
Doesn’t appeal to businesses huh? Odd, considering I work for a Fortune 100 company whose CTO ordered 10 of them to evaluate.
The more these “talking” heads naysay a device that’s NOT EVEN OUT YET, the more I WANT IT.
This is what I hate about “business” IT people have been placed in a position where they can dictate what technology a business needs to run and what is or isn’t suitable for them. I struggle with this attitude each and every day in my business and more often than not I have to use their shitty Microsoft based solutions. I try to use Thunderbird, Firefox and so on where I can but I’m just one person and I get to the point where I need to get my work done so have to give in. Unfortunately I need some of these companies more than the need me. I’ll be damned if some IT twats are gonna tell me what phone I want and is suitable for me.
Keeping iPhones out of businesses will be like keeping cops from their donuts!
I use my blackberry for one thing… email. And honestly, I think it’s a pretty shitty device. The UI is horrible — and I’d think with the way the Blackberry Enterprise Server talks to the Exchange Server you’d have WAY more potentional for security issues — luckly we’ve been lucky.
I’d love to throw that POS Blackberry in the river.
Resistance is futile. (^_^)
MW: appear — the tide appears to be turning….
Until the iPhone supports push e-mail from Notes, Exchange or both it’s a joke for corporate use.
This is cleverly manufatured anti-fud. Read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. They praise with faint damnation. Watch for more.
-c
MW: ‘faith’
I’d liek to hear what AT&T has to say about that. Lil’ ol’ Apple isn’t so little, or so alone anymore.
M$ and goons are out in full force. It’s amazing. I love this security argument– what exactly have they been using that’s been so secure until now? ALL security issues have come from the status quo!
Yea, it’s really interesting how they are focusing on business when this product was never intended for that to begin with. The media always tries to focus on the negative with Apple. It’s amazing.
But like MDN’s says, there’s fear in them words because they know the iPhone is going to be BIG, VERY BIG.
TB2,
How did your CTO order 10, exactly? Is Apple taking early orders from bigshots? Or did your CTO simply authorize a p.o. to be placed after the 29th?
You guys have already said it, but I want in on the fun too, so here goes!!
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“Brodkin reports. “‘It doesn’t have any features that would make it successful as a business tool. ” YEP thats right, it has NO key board and does not support Microsoft mobile, and it is missing all the really rotten features of my Blackberry! So there!!
Chuckle.!!
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Later,
en
I love how all these “experts” keep coming out and saying that the iPhone will fail because it’s insecure, and not fit for business use, etc., etc., etc.
First of all, none of these pinheads has ever even touched one. They don’t know anything more about how it’s going to work than you or I.
Second of all, they never give any actual reasons why it’s supposedly insecure, we’re just supposed to take their word on it. If nothing else, security should be the absolute last worry here because it’s running OS X, the most secure OS in the world.
I’d be willing to bet that the Redmond Monster is behind all the hit pieces. Microsoft Henchmen ‘R’ Us is doing a booming business right now.