“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.
——————-
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,
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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.
I’m a business user and I definitely want the iPhone -for business and personal use.
Greed will win in the end
Once these companies see that a switch to apple will mean BILLIONS LESS TO IT AND BILLIONS MORE TO THEIR BOTTOM LINE ( POCKETS )
this is the story never told
MS products take billions away from the bottom line
We just need a big boy to switch and watch the tower fall
Microsoft / blackberry / exchange COSTS TO MUCH TO RUN
IT IS A SCAM
Plug in iphone it works … no need for IT
Apple is going to school these MF so hard I love it
h ah ah ah ah ah ahahahahahahaha
I’m buying 2 more iPhones thanks to that FUD – I’ll give them to my nephews.
HAB
A quote from a mid 90’s video game character:
Lo Wang; “They are afraid”
With Apple’s announcement today that YouTube videos will be on the iPhone shows that they are firing on all cylinders and executing like a champ!
The FUD campaign is now going into overdrive to counter it.
They talk about Blackberry like it’s been around for a gazillion years… Well, it hasn’t. It was introduced in 1999, and you know what IT goons said about it then? Same sh|t… Keep it away from our sacred Microsoft networks. And now Blackberry is this unassailable protected device that can’t be challenged.
You just watch it happen.
Holy crap, where do they get these people? Now, we are still living in the U.S. of A., right? I’m sorry but this sounds like pure corporate fascism – Just ’cause some butt-kissing-ner-do-well in a monkey suite says so we’re all supposed to write off the iPhone? I think not.
Now back to AT&T – We’ve already got reports that sales reps are advising people not to buy the iPhone. I take it for granted that Apple is already proceeding with litigation against these stores, sales reps, and ATT.
What I don’t understand is why these people perceive any sort of change — potential or actual — as some world-ending threat. These so-called experts are like the prophets of Baal, always shooting off their mouths, but never getting anything right. Why would anyone listen to the Gartner group after their awful track record? It really does approach the level of unconscious satire (I think assuming that they’re creating anti-fud is far too generous). I wonder if future historians will look back upon our age as the age of Chicken Littles. Such blabbering fraidycats are everywhere, from middle east foreign policy, to technology, to education, to cars. I’m fed up.
” . . . 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.”
I’m more surprised at the level of communicative skills emanating from a festering pustule that someone cutely named Tony.
“Smell that? You smell that? It’s pure fear. Nothing else in the world smells like that.”
I disagree. It’s not surprisingly almost identical to the smell of Ballmer’s meter wide pit stains.
IT Guy: We need to keep these off our networks, IDC said so.
CEO: Well, I’m buying one, and I’m buying them for eveyone on the board, and my assistant wants one, and you work for me, jackhole.
Make it happen, or you’ll be changing register tapes at Wal*Mart.
IT Guy: Yes sir.
Wal*Mart just called.
They’re not accepting applications from any more former IT guys.
Something about bad attitudes, urine stains and a nasty stale cheese smell.
Either you “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” now, or “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” later…make your choice.
Boy, that was difficult to type, for some reason.
Yeah the small of fear is palpable.
The good news is; there are more iPhones available for real people because all those Windows IT guys are dropping bricks.
Steve better watch out, and keep away from hospitals. Last time it was “you have a cancer problem you knew nothing about and it could kill you in days unless we chop it out”, this time they might say he has a heart problem.
Forget the “drop your land line for a cellphone” concept. Instead, “drop your landline, internet connection, and laptop for an iPhone and a AT&T contract”.
No wonder Apple no longer has a focus on the Mac Mini, the iPhone is Apple’s solution to everyone’s request for a sub-$1000 computer.
This is news? Not to the world of enterprise information technology.
In the real world of corporate IT we found out long ago that Apple’s
products are just eye candy for artists and eccentrics in the graphic
arts department.
Macs are not even competitive candidates for the desktops of our
corporate organizations. Outlook exchange email? Not on Macs !
No serious enterprise IT professional is going to facilitate the
contamination of our enterprise intranets with iPhone and other
non-compatible toys from Apple.
Besides, the security concerns of letting products from Apple in
the corporate IT infrastructure would be a nightmare, as we know
that Mac systems are hijacked and hacked every day.
The real world of American corporate enterprise IT belongs to
Microsoft. Always have and always will.
When the CEO wants one, damn right the IT guys are going to support it.
Please be a stupid business-user and let the first iPhones to the normal consumers. Maybe later you can by one, when these lousy tech-analists have been proven wrong
These people talk as though “business” is a place on another planet populated by beings who are not human. The iPhone is (among many other things). . . surprise … a mobile phone! But it is a phone that takes a quantum leap over other mobile phones in terms of ease of use, technology and cool. In short, it makes it much easier for humans where using a mobile phone is concerned than ever before.
Since “business” is also populated by humans who, I’m sure, are also constantly looking for progressive solutions, why would the “business world” shut it out?
“IT Expert”
That was a beautifully written troll piece!
Do you get a bonus pudding cup after nap time now?
Real World Enterprise and Corporate IT Expert:
Anytime anyone starts tossing around absolutes like “always have and always will” about anything in the technology sector, they’re talking out of their ass no matter how many loaded words like “contaminate” and “hijacked” you throw in there to over compensate your weak position.
Talk to us next year this time when it actually will mean something.
Yeah that misperception about macs being more secure is just a conspiracy.
Guess what happens when you tell someone (especially someone with money to spend and in a position of power) that he or she can’t have something?
You only get one guess.
DJ Fred: I don’t think he can hear you. He had to take a time out for sassing back at the nanny. Something about his Flintstones phone not having Exchange support.
It is definitely fear. The guy likes his blackberry’s keyboard and scroll ball, and service. Yet, has he even tried the iPhone? Of course, the answer is no he has not. So it must be fear that is driving him to this conclusion…because it sure isn’t a side by side comparison.
“Anytime anyone starts tossing around absolutes like “always have and always will” about anything in the technology sector”
ah come on, you know that isn’t true. everything lasts forever in tech!
that is why netscape dominates the browser market and netware runs 99% of all servers….
@”realworld”
yeah, right…
i was there when inhouse programmed unix variants phased out for netware…
….and when netware died off to be replaced by NT
…and now that NT is being replaced by linux.
and you think today will last?
my wife is the head of audit for a fortune bank. she wants an iphone. if she can’t get her work email on it, i predict an audit of the mail servers.
wanna place bets on how long it takes her to get her email?
how about this scenario?
The 2nd Gen iPhone is announced 6 MONTHS after the 1st Gen Debuts… It has GPS, supports Flash, works in 3G and works with Exchange server. Those who bought the 1st Gen phone can trade them in for 70% of the value of their original purchase. Apple then resells the first gen to consumers at a refurb price
$399
and Business gets hit by a huge wave of iPhones.
> appears to be a great consumer device but has no redeeming qualities from the perspective of a business user
The personal computer also had no “redeeming qualities” for a business user… until it did.
And to say it has “no redeeming qualities.” That’s a insane statement. At the very least, it’s a mobile phone. Isn’t that a “redeeming quality”?
MDN is right about the fear. These FUD articles are purely for the purpose of making people and businesses delay their iPhone purchase. Why would these so-called “analysts” publish such crazy sounding pieces (and destroy their credibility) unless they were being paid to do it by the “fearful.” But the sheer number of them and their increasing hysteria undercut their value (no one believes them). They only succeed at doing is give Apple more free publicity. And I’m sure that was part of Apple’s plan.
“wanna place bets on how long it takes her to get her email?”
As fast as a doughnut vanishes anywhere near Rob Glaser?
Real World Enterprise and Corporate IT Expert
Alias: Microshaft employee
You can tell my posts are
pre-fab cut-and-paste jobs
because of the carriage re-
turns that make the format-
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That way I can post them
easily on any discussion
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Yeah, I thought so.
I head up IT for the second fastest growing company in Canada. I can honestly say that my Blackberry is terrible. The scroll ball is terrible and doesn’t work half the time. They keyboard is terrible. The interface is beyond terrible. Most users can’t even change their profile ring tones let alone view business docs. My Pearl has crashed multiple times just trying to set up my Blackberry internet account.
MDN is right. Fear. Trust me, the iPhone will have it’s share of critics once it launches. Many will be the same people that are spreading the FUD now. The good journalists will be the ones that come forward and say, “I was wrong. After using the iPhone for a week the iPhone beats the competition in ‘X’ categories”. I love people that admit when they have made a mistake. It takes courage to do that. The guys that keep spreading lies because they had taken an early hard stance are the ones that should be fired.
I certainly can take criticism on Apple products where it is due and in the context of other products out in the market…if those arguments can be backed up. The problem is: there just aren’t many (if any) products out there currently better than Apples’.
The one exception may currently lie with iWork. While for the general consumer Pages is awesome, it does have trouble with some numbering and formatting issues. Keynote is pretty solid. A spreadsheet is lacking. All will be addressed over time but I can understand the need for businesses to use Office or another Office compatible suite.
Mail and iCal also have limitations fitting into a Windows IT world and as much as I stick up for them, if they integrated much more smoothly with Exchange server. I’d move a lot of people over to Macs immediately. I require Windows for MS Reporting Services and some other IE only functions requiring ActiveX. I spend all my day on the Mac side using Parallels to use XP as needed. Tried Vista but it crashed more than XP.
Back on topic, there are a lot of scared people out there….scared at what the iPhone is going to do. I hope the next iPod (less phone functionality) has all the same WiFi features. I’d love to get my hands on one up here in Canada.
Cheers!
Security is one thing, but these statements by “analysts” are just plain weird. Tell me there is no conspiracy to kill this product. If the iPhone has no place in business, why does any portable phone?
This is the epitome of absurdity.
My guess is that back in the horse and buggy days, many buggy manufacturers discouraged the population from buying the first automobile.
Blackberry = horse and buggy
iPhone = Model T
Current smart phone manufacturers….your time is coming to an end.
ROFLMFAO!
IMHO, U R A NOOB!
The iPhone being considered by Gartner is like a handful of pearls cast before the swine. Those pigs have no taste, absolutely no taste.
Real World Enterprise and Corporate IT Expert,
You have blinders on for one reason…your retirement.
You blind clueless idiot…typical ride the myth entrenched M$ bent over sheep.
Pal, a rude awakening is coming your way.
What a pathetic “pre-hatchet” job!
Bad enough that they’ll report the same story twice (once now, and next week when the report is released), but since Gartner has no issue with the iPhone at the consumer level, they had to bring in Tony Rizzo to slam it at that level as well:
Why wait? Computerworld does iPhone hatchet job now
Real World Enterprise and Corporate IT Expert,
You have blinders on for one reason…your retirement.
You blind biased clueless doofus…a typical ride the myth entrenched M$ bent over sheep.
Pal, a rude awakening is coming your way. If we don’t wake you up, your smart CEO, soon to be successor, or kids will. Extremely typical and predictable 3rd party glued together IT attitude. We feel sorry for you longterm. Do your homework!
@ Real World Enterprise and Corporate IT Expert
Tiny pen1s?
Sigh… it’s just not worth getting worked up. He’ll be outdated soon enough.
IT dBags… nothing more.
A comment posted on Dulaney’s article tells why the iPhone is a brilliant choice for business:
There is virtually no corporate data risk. The iPhone does not provide for device-resident data or apps.
It provides a streamlined development model. Web-based custom apps can be almost totally device-independent — a huge cost-saver and speedup factor.
It offers vastly higher productivity for expensive employees who spend their time on voicemail, plain voice, and web apps.
Its iChat feature provides 2-way communications that are quicker-than-email.
Businesses only need to turn on the IMAP option in Exchange in order to get the iPhone connected to the company’s email. A third party email vendor is not needed.
This article is not mere FUD; it is a goddamn bald-faced lie!!
The iPhone has a fully functional browser. My work has exchange web mail. Now I can “integrate” with my work email and calendar by just entering in the URL. Wow, that wasn’t so challenging.
@Mr. Peabody….nope we are not still living in the U.S. of A. Some of us actually live elsewhere….
Until the iPhone supports:
incomprehensible error messages, inexplicable restarts or the blue screen of death, it’s a joke for corporate use.
I like my rotary dial phone. I like the textile feel and sound of watching the dial spin around after each number. I ain’t changin’ nuthin’!
Windows NT rocks! Never upgrading to nuthin’ else!
-19th Century IT guy
Here are some bold statements from Gartner at the ITxpo 2007 few months ago in San Francisco:
Consumerization will be the most significant trend affecting IT during the next 10 years (0.8 probability).
Through 2012, the majority of new IT technologies that enterprises adopt will have their roots in the consumer market (0.8 probability).
Through 2011, enterprises which can balance the opportunities from combining consumer IT with established systems and processes will achieve significant rewards in cost containment and productivity (0.7 probability).
Enterprises should consider proactively managing the transition toward consumer-based technology in order to avoid traumatic and disruptive change.
By 2012, at least one of the following will win new standing in the enterprise market: Sony, Apple, Motorola, Nokia, Google, eBay and Samsung (0.6 probability).
Gartner’s Conclusion and Recommendations to IT (by Steve Prentice and Tom Austin)
Get out of denial. Recognize the reality of the impact of consumer IT in all aspects of enterprise IT and infrastructure. The status quo is going to change.
Don’t try to stop it. You will fail. But you can manage it with education and a realistic and pragmatic approach.
A proactive approach to relieve pressures as they build will be better than waiting for tectonic shifts.
Keep an open mind, and watch consumer activities and technologies carefully. Watch and listen to your children if necessary.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. This trend is still in its infancy. Prepare for the ride of your life.
P.S. I have nothing else to say.
Re: Real World Enterprise and Corporate IT Expert
Uh, I thought it was painfully obvious that the original post was satire, even if one did not know that there used to be a poster here that would call himself a “real IT expert”. Apparently, not even the carriage return post made it clear to everyone.
Well, even if 25% of what the analysts are saying is true, there will be a number of IT departments that will have iPhone jammed down their throat by execs that want the fancy new toy. Sure, there are businesses where the IT dept can overrule, but there are also companies where they cannot.
Google will most likely be the one that provides Office tools for the iPhone via Safari. Google will probably pay a lot more attention to Safari because it runs in Windows now. No more Microsoft rode blocks with IE. Google in partnering with Apple and this symbiotic relationship can not help but undermine Microsoft at it’s core, Office Suite of applications. Apple is dumping a bucket of water on the entire industry, yet their are those that claim they wont get wet.
If the amount of iPhone-FUD of last week is proportional to the future succes of the iPhone, then you should buy AAPL-stock now…
Sometimes I think you guys have been drinking too much of the ole koolaid… but OMG this IS fear. FEAR. Amazingly obvious fear.
I mean, what, if you love your Crackberry then why do you even CARE about the iPhone??? And the only reasonable answer is, you don’t but SOMEONE behind the curtain is soiling their underwear.
Me, I’m okay with my cheap crappy phone and my beautiful 80 G iPod… ‘specially since I’m a developer and I can’t play with the hardware (no sdk). iPhone is “maybe someday” not “must have”.
But the absolute level of FEAR out there tells me not to sell my AAPL.
Though I should remind myself that they don’t really know anything. Or do they?
“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.
Really? And where are the polls and data to suggest this? Oh right, from out of his a$$.
Really. Why are these people so desperate to slag a product, the predecessors to have already permeated every level of corporate and business interests? It’s bizarre.
Real World Enterprise and Corporate IT Expert – hilarious!
People missed the humour in this one….
“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.”
Apart from the fact that it doesn’t offer any features that a business user needs, you’re right.
“wanna place bets on how long it takes her to get her email?”
I bet she’ll get it about 1 day after she goes down on the CTO.
Please! Do it!
Give everything to us!
This may have been an early draft. “The iPhone… appears to be a great consumer device but has no redeeming qualities from the perspective of a consumer gauger uh, business user”
RW, the original, substitutions may be made.
Rizzo is right and that’s why I’m not giving up my soup cans with string. Why? I like the price, I like the service and I like the soup. Until the iPhone can dispense hot, delicious soup I see no place for it in enterprise.
Real World
Apart from the fact that it doesn’t offer any features that a business user needs, you’re right.
Who are these mythical “businessmen” who don’t make phone calls, don’t get voice mail, don’t want to be able to surf the actual internet on a handy WiFi device, don’t want to have a few tunes with them, don’t want to be able to use Google maps almost anywhere, don’t want software and firmware updates as close as the nearest cradle and iTunes install, don’t want a slick user friendly interface…
Man, they would have to all Federal Employees to be that fscking boring.
Everybody just shut up for a few minutes and realize you all have a lot of knowledge in certain areas, and others have knowledge where you don’t!
1. Everybody ignores where there are cellphone laws and dials while driving anyway. Where’s the tactile feedback? There isn’t any, you have to look at the dial pad and not at the road. Nobody’s got all their #’s in Contacts.
2. Software for business isn’t there. Jobs knows, he apologized at D for this – “We would like to solve this problem and if you could just be a little more patient with us, we’ll do it.”
3. The push email standard is Blackberry, NOBODY can dispute that, with over 180 enterprise data controls. This device cannot replace a fully managed Blackberry for email. You can’t even open Powerpoint.
4. There is no replaceable battery!
5. There’s no wireless sync! It’s all wired. Who wants to go back to docking handhelds every 5 minutes?
6. Walt, chat is better than email, you’re right. Try working in any regulated industry like finance or pharma. All chat must be recorded like email for discovery. How’s iPhone do that?
7. How do I run Siebel Mobile, SAP mobile, etc etc on this phone? I can with Windows Mobile. So what do I tell my Sales Force? Use a web app? On Edge? On international roaming? Yeah, right.
8. Exactly what do I use for enterprise device management? Assuming I can even password protect the unit, the end user calls the helpdesk and says ‘I forgot my password, would you please send the unlock command?’ or ‘can you give me a temporary password’?
9. I lost my iPhone. No problem, I’ll just go and get another one at the store, call the helpdesk and have them do an over-the-air activation. Yeah, right.
I could go on all day here folks, try talking to your IT department and security people first before blogging…… that is if you really are talking large enterprise. Again, I fully support this will work for SMB…
“my wife is the head of audit for a fortune bank. she wants an iphone. if she can’t get her work email on it, i predict an audit of the mail servers.
wanna place bets on how long it takes her to get her email?”
A very long time, from the unemployment line if she starts blackmailing people at her company.
Her granting of sexual favors to the decision makers seems like a better plan.