“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
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?