Forbes: What kind of technology or gadget are you most in love with in your personal life today? What is making your life easier, not just in terms of your job in IT?
Ravi Naik: This won’t surprise you. I use an iPhone extensively. I am pretty much connected to everything that’s going on at work almost on a 24/7 basis. I get e-mails. I get my phone calls. I get network outages. I get flash reports that the executives get–that the CEO gets–on a daily basis, all on my iPhone. The iPhone is the single most powerful device that I use right now.
Forbes: This used to be BlackBerry territory. Does it sound like the iPhone is starting to replace the BlackBerry in at least your business?
Naik: Interestingly, I actually have been a BlackBerry user, a Samsung BlackJack user and a Palm user in the past. I do find the iPhone to be a pretty powerful tool. I do see that, with the whole network of developers, etc., on the net, I think it’s just going to be great from here on. So yes, it’s a very powerful tool.
Forbes: That’s really interesting. A lot of IT people hear iPhone and think “headache.” It seems like you guys are kind of on the other side of that.
Naik: I do believe that it’s a great productivity tool. I keep telling most of my leadership team that we should–we are not completely on the iPhone yet; the whole company hasn’t adopted it. But I do believe it’s a great productivity tool.
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He gets it
…and this is a surprise because…?
iPhone use more flash storage
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Nice example when one extricates their head from their ass to breathe fresh air and see new things.
‘A lot of IT people hear iPhone and think “headache.” “
A lot of IT people have been far too lazy and don’t get anything beyond MSFT and RIM, that’s the truth.
“Forbes: That’s really interesting. A lot of IT people hear iPhone and think “headache.” It seems like you guys are kind of on the other side of that.”
in IT speak: Damn, I will have to find work to do or hide a lot. This makes my life work! Will they lay me off?!
but according to the droid fanboys the iPhone is just a status device….ha ha
Wow a big IT VEEP gets it, really gets it. More of those in the industry should be more open minded like Ravi.
And there you have your answer to the “Analysts” who say “iPhone won’t be coming to “enterprise” any time soon – it already has.
Well, I work for a public agency with about 8,000 employees. I’ve been an iPhone user since the first generation (i.e. my personal phone). My corporate device was a Blackberry in part because we were stuck in the past with Domino and Lotus notes.
We made the move to the Exchange Server and after much prodding, I finally convinced our IT folks to look at the iPhone. My BB Bold was replaced with the 32 GB 3Gs and now it is being rolled out organization-wide.
Bear in mind, we had already invested years ago in the BB Enterprise Server. Now, the IT folks are discovering that there is less work that goes into managing the iPhone. Really, it is a slam dunk. Everything from folder management on the device is easier on the iPhone than on the BB. There are some diehard BB users who complain about the lack of the physical keyboard. The vast majority, however, love the iPhone. And for now, it’s an option.
“I get flash reports”
I thought flash does not work on iPhone. And the other “flashing” apps are not approved by Apple…
The iPhone is the lord of the phones! The one phone that will rule them all.
SanDisk is Apple’s leading competitor in the PMP market; still this SanDisk VP gets it.