“The new iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software that comes installed on the 3G phone and is also available for the first-generation devices [means that] the iPhone is a now a bona fide software platform,” Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director for the personal technology and access and custom research groups at JupiterResearch, writes for Computerworld.
“One of the most important things that will make it much easier for Apple to get the iPhone into business users’ hands is support for Exchange. I had no problems syncing my Exchange data to the iPhone. A lot of folks are dependent on Exchange, so this new ability has made the iPhone a first-class corporate citizen,” Gartenberg writes.
“Apple also released tools to let IT managers remotely configure and control iPhones on their networks. In combination with Exchange syncing, that should allow Apple to make new inroads into the enterprise, with the iPhone acting as a Trojan horse for other Apple devices and services,” Gartenberg writes.
Full article here.
Trojan on a horse? = Big threat.
Gartenberg is obviously unaware of Dell’s powerful new weapon under development:
The Bold and Loud Enderlean Consumer Handheld
trojan horse?
thats a lot of rubber
Shame the 2.0 software is buggy as hell. Just about to perform my 4th DFU Restore since I bought this iPhone 3G only 2 weeks ago.
Is every penis, including the one on a horse, a big threat to you?
Check your firmware version, Jamie. If it’s 5A345, update it to 5A347.
Yeth!
Already have done, as soon as I bought it I updated to 5A347.
It seems I’m not the only one having serious problems:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1600894&tstart=75
This is ironic since MS-DOS was the original trojan horse into the enterprise back in 1981, then Windows 3.1 in 1986 and later Windows 95. The enterprise IT guys ran around in panic as these insecure ‘toy’ PCs took over more than just terminal entry and our mainframe section reduced in personnel as the microcomputer section increased.
Interesting to see history repeat itself twenty years later… But the reason for moving from terminals to PCs back then was more compelling than moving from PCs to Macs now. Maybe the iPhone, MultiTouch and the Cloud will become compelling enough.
Interesting…
Could the iPhone have the same ‘halo effect’ on the enterprise as the iPod did for the consumer?
Workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day but will instead be granted the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr.
Now this is a Trojan Horse of a different color.
http://www.tyson.com/Corporate/CustomerService.aspx
Did Microsoft decide to let Exchange be on the iPhone, or did they have no choice?
I’d thought Microsoft say no to Exchange being on the iPhone, as it’s competition to Windows Mobile.
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Must be a Windows guy. We call “a Trojan horse for other Apple devices and services” a halo.
“But the reason for moving from terminals to PCs back then was more compelling than moving from PCs to Macs now.”
Please. Back then PCs were buggy, slow, difficult to use and network. Now they’re buggy, difficult to use, and highly insecure. Good reasons to switch now and poor reasons to install them then.
ron,
This was instigated by the union, not management. Apparently 20% of workers at this one plant are Muslim. I’m curious to know if these are American born converts or immigrants.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d05_1217706550
Yet another reminder of what a daily horror show it must be to labour at an “enterprise”. Makes me glad I work for a company instead, one that uses proper open standards instead of this wretched Exchange crapware.
Master Bates, they were mostly Somalis, invited in by President Clinton.
Like it or not Exchange controls like 60% of corporate email, Lotus Notes taking the next chunk (which there is no Iphone support yet) and then Groupwise and a handful of smaller products.
Exchange installations are not going to just be replaced .. some of these systems have been installed for years and work as needed. With SEC/SoX etc not many other products meet the level of record keeping we are REQUIRED to provide and retain. Does Apple have a mail server platform I’m not aware of?
Apple had no choice but to license the ActiveSync API, which is not even the FULL API, just a smaller subset that gets you the controls we know have. The other choice would be to license Blackberry Connect or Good which if I were Apple .. buy Good off Motorola .. they’d then be able to go head to head with what Blackberry does best – secure management of mobile devices. For now ActiveSync is basic and will get smaller companies to consider Iphone but enterprise need a heck of a lot more then enforce password / remote wipe.
As much as MDN and readers would like to see Iphone be a “trojan horse” it’s a pipedream.
Why always a Trojan horse and not a Lifestyles horse?
ron,
“Master Bates”
I had a teacher who referred to me with that name once.
Just once. So smile when ya say that mister.
We have a fairly large Somali community in our state capital too. I just found out recently we have a local group from Rwanda. Well okay, but we won’t take the Irish.
“Legal immigration to the U.S. increased from 250,000 in the 1930s, 2.5 million in the 1950s, 4.5 million in the 1970s, and 7.3 million in the 1980s to about 10 million in the 1990s.[11] Since 2000, legal immigrants to the United States number approximately 1,000,000 per year, of whom about 600,000 are Change of Status immigrants who already are in the U.S. Legal immigrants to the United States now are at their highest level ever at over 37,000,000 legal immigrants. Illegal immigration may be as high as 1,500,000 per year with a net of at least 700,000 illegal immigrants arriving each year to join the 12,000,000 to 20,000,000 that are already there.”
Cubert,
I heard that Lifestyles makes a protective cover for the Zune, but it’s defective and can’t contain the ‘squirt’. They just aren’t up to the task.
Sir Gil, I was smiling. Well, actually – laughing.
I’m an immigrant. I paid my $10 and came here legally in the 50’s.
Cubert
As a Greek-American, its taken a LONG time for me to accept and trust Trojans.
It’s really asking a lot for me to deal with different Lifestyles
…and for those who are unfamiliar… and </Pun> are understood…
Bluefin,
“It’s really asking a lot for me to deal with different Lifestyles”
If you are going to try a different Lifestyle, you sure better learn to trust those Trojans!