MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

is much more at ease with buttons they can spin round and round

i guess that's our $700B at work.

Congress has a pecking order. Therefore, the top dudes get iPhones and the littler dudes get blackberry's and the freshman get micro$oft phones.

Oct 28, 08 - 03:26 pm Comment from: Cubert

The tires will be kicked and a massive purchase will be placed.

M$ will pay, for them NOT to choose iPhones! By Balmer's SAKE!

Oct 28, 08 - 03:55 pm Comment from: MobileAdmin

Result will be the same every other Fortune 100 company concludes:

Nice device, great for internet.

Lacking in security / management.

Unless Apple addresses those concerns Iphone will never get full deployment in any company that has regulations / security concerns.

Blackberry is a Canadian company. Buying American would make too much sense. There is a reason this congress has such a high approval rating.

....I'm sure the Canadian Parliament uses iPhones.
http://www.rim.com

There is a reason why the iphone is not an open platform. If they scan every piece of software that goes into the IPhone then the risk of malware is minimal. In this respect the IPhone is more secure than the BBs.

I guess I am of three minds about this:

1. Congress is populated by such a group of bozos that anything that would improve their communications and efficiency and lessen their potential to do damage to the country should probably be discouraged.

2. On the other hand, they are such a bunch of bozos that even iphones won't help much, so they might as well have shiny toys when they hang out in airport lavatories.

3. If any entity, public or private, ought to be buying 'murcain, one would think it oughta be the congress.

Oct 28, 08 - 04:26 pm Comment from: Spudly

I could see Obama & the whole Hill with iPhones...

McCain, of course, will still prefer his tin cans & a string.

"McCain, of course, will still prefer his tin cans & a string."

Absolute rubbish. McCain's inadequacies with technology have to do with an injury he sustained.

Therefore, McCain is waiting for the return of Mabel, the operator. Remember when you picked up the phone and Mabel was on the other end? Ah, the good ol' days...

Oct 28, 08 - 05:06 pm Comment from: Big Al

You young fools.

I remember when you picked up The Phone and Alexander himself was on the other end.

Folks,

Not even the iPhone could get today's Congress in touch with reality.

Congress and Windows Mobile would be an ideal match.

Unless Apple addresses those concerns Iphone will never get full deployment in any company that has regulations / security concerns.

Wasn't OS X cleared for, and being adopted into, military and "sensitive" applications?
Couldn't the same be applied to the iPhone?

Perhaps Congress should take a look at how the Pentagon does their mobile communications.
Heh Congress should do that anyway, seeing how they're the ones who approve the budgets!!

That reminded me that the IPhone is being used by the Army. So if its used by the Army, it should be safe enough for accepting illegal contributions.