“Gartner Inc. today upgraded its assessment of the iPhone based on the business-focused improvements in the 2.0 version to be launched in June, and it predicted IT groups will get a flood of requests for iPhone support from users,” Matt Hamblen reports for Computerworld.
“With iPhone 2.0, ‘Apple corrects the basic omissions of the first iPhone release, noted by Gartner early on, and [iPhone] becomes attractive to enterprises,’ the analyst firm said in a six-page research note,” Hamblen reports.
“Principal author Ken Dulaney said the improvements in the upcoming version ‘will open a huge volume of business users’ for Apple Inc. Still, he said, the iPhone won’t be ready for broad application development because IT shops have little experience with the iPhone and with the modified version of the OS X operating system that it runs on, Dulaney said in an e-mail,” Hamblen reports.
“In the report, Gartner briefly mentioned a range of ways IT shops can prepare for iPhone development and support, including hiring developers familiar with mobile OS X and even acquiring Macintosh computers and training for those developers,” Hamblen reports.
Full article here.
Gartner’s full report is available for US$95 here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]
No Gates can hold back the flood.
Just wait until the CxOs and the bean-counters finally realize that they don’t need massive <strike>Windows virus monitors</strike> IT staffs.
@ Ampar
Good one! I hear Ballmer is building an ark, and loading it with 2 of every kind of office chair.
@ChrissyOne
He’ll probably forget to build a door to his boat
Can’t wait have active sync at work and when I can sync iPhone woo-hoo. There’s a way around the IT Nazi’s
@ DogGone
Good.
Do I see full exchange support in Mail in June? I certainly do hope so.
“Do I see full exchange support in Mail in June?”
It looks possible. But I’d bet a whole dollar that it will appear in Mail long before Entourage. The MS Mac BU has more important things to do like plugging vulnerabilities and making newer, shinier icons for Messenger.
I second (or maybe third by now) freefromdesign’s comment.
I would imagine mail app for the iPhone and Leopard are similar. So it should be relatively easy to have exchange work for both.
“Still, he said, the iPhone won’t be ready for broad application development because IT shops have little experience with the iPhone and with the modified version of the OS X operating system that it runs on, Dulaney said in an e-mail,” Hamblen reports.
“In the report, Gartner briefly mentioned a range of ways IT shops can prepare for iPhone development and support, including hiring developers familiar with mobile OS X and even acquiring Macintosh computers and training for those developers,” Hamblen reports.”
Yes, Unix (OS X) *IS* a mystery to most corporate IT drones. But does Hamblen *NOT* understand that the iPhone runs the full version of OS X under the iPhone GUI? Did he miss the developers’ kit keynote?
Gartner Group has got to be one of the worst predictors of IT Trends. Here they are just jumping on the band wagon. I wouldn’t put 2 cents into there opinion. But in this case they know they are right…because they are just following everyone else. How can you go wrong with iPhone, just too strong of a product!!!!!
Yes, but Balmer’s ark will run on a Windows based navigation system and will soon founder, becalmed at sea.
Maybe Ballmer can ride his pony on his boat.
1. Ballmer has to get Microsoft to build something that floats- other than its software.
2. They have to get their immunization before getting on the boat.
3. Attempt to weather the onslaught of virus’.
4. Have Apple’s corporate number to their sea bottom headquarters as they ride out the storm in serene comfort!
Ballmer has to get Microsoft to build something that floats- other than its software. They have to get their immunization before getting on the boat. Attempt to weather the onslaught of virus’. Have Apple’s corporate number to their sea bottom headquarters as they ride out the storm in serene comfort!
Simple for Microsoft- prepare for doom!
I think these articles should make it more clear that 2.0 is a free software upgrade and not a new piece of hardware.
Sorry to distract from all the Ballmer talk. Carry on.
Oh yeah. Ballmer sucks.