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Wow, I can't wait to email these bozos in a year and see what they have to say about these FUD articles then.

Ex-cellent!


MW: office -- the iPhone will dominate the office.

We put the F in FUD.

Wow what a blatant hit piece this is.

This hit piece sponsored by ____________ (fill in with any CE company's name)

Tipping point. =)

Ken Dulaney: "The iPhone... appears to be a great consumer device but has no redeeming qualities from the perspective of a business user"

Except that its far better than any other business oriented smart phone out there with more capabilities and more promise than all the rest combined.

It's business oriented shortcomings will all be overcome in time, possibly sooner than later. It already surpasses the rest of them in many areas, including many that relate to businesses.

For example you could load up a slide show and run it from your iPhone with a proper cable. What other smart phone could do that?

.....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.

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The iPhone battery WILL NOT handle all of these estimated times combined..

It is either 8 hours of talk OR 6 hours internet, OR 7 hours video OR 24 hours of music.

While I am not getting one (the wife has denied that purchase request) I know FOR SURE if I wanted to use it on my company's Exchange server, I could do it... wanna know why?

I'm the guy who makes that happen. It's my Exchange Server... security problems? Yeah, like all the other security problems I have with my fleets of Macs on my network.

Again... I am what IT Douchebags fear... I speak both PC/Mac

This story is FUD... pure and simple.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

"'It doesn’t have any features that would make it successful as a business tool." WTF? Are these guys high? The maps, mail, weather widget, contact organization, the way it handles voicemail, stocks widget and web access alone make this thing a fantastic business tool. This piece just reads as "I'm a blackberry drone, so iPhone is automatically bad and I must try and detract from it!". Anyone who can't see how fantastic a business tool the iPhone could be shouldn't be doing business in the first place and is probably poor.

Helicopters on the horizon....

Ignorance is bliss. Irrational statements are for/from morons.
Let them be stuck in the backward world of psuedo technology with their blackberry, when it works.

Doesn't appeal to businesses huh? Odd, considering I work for a Fortune 100 company whose CTO ordered 10 of them to evaluate.

The more these "talking" heads naysay a device that's NOT EVEN OUT YET, the more I WANT IT.

This is what I hate about "business" IT people have been placed in a position where they can dictate what technology a business needs to run and what is or isn't suitable for them. I struggle with this attitude each and every day in my business and more often than not I have to use their shitty Microsoft based solutions. I try to use Thunderbird, Firefox and so on where I can but I'm just one person and I get to the point where I need to get my work done so have to give in. Unfortunately I need some of these companies more than the need me. I'll be damned if some IT twats are gonna tell me what phone I want and is suitable for me.

Keeping iPhones out of businesses will be like keeping cops from their donuts!

I use my blackberry for one thing... email. And honestly, I think it's a pretty shitty device. The UI is horrible -- and I'd think with the way the Blackberry Enterprise Server talks to the Exchange Server you'd have WAY more potentional for security issues -- luckly we've been lucky.

I'd love to throw that POS Blackberry in the river.

Resistance is futile. (^_^)


MW: appear -- the tide appears to be turning....

Until the iPhone supports push e-mail from Notes, Exchange or both it's a joke for corporate use.

This is cleverly manufatured anti-fud. Read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. They praise with faint damnation. Watch for more.

-c

MW: 'faith'

I'd liek to hear what AT&T;has to say about that. Lil' ol' Apple isn't so little, or so alone anymore.

M$ and goons are out in full force. It's amazing. I love this security argument-- what exactly have they been using that's been so secure until now? ALL security issues have come from the status quo!

Yea, it's really interesting how they are focusing on business when this product was never intended for that to begin with. The media always tries to focus on the negative with Apple. It's amazing.
But like MDN's says, there's fear in them words because they know the iPhone is going to be BIG, VERY BIG.

TB2,

How did your CTO order 10, exactly? Is Apple taking early orders from bigshots? Or did your CTO simply authorize a p.o. to be placed after the 29th?

You guys have already said it, but I want in on the fun too, so here goes!!

"Brodkin reports. "'It doesn’t have any features that would make it successful as a business tool. " YEP thats right, it has NO key board and does not support Microsoft mobile, and it is missing all the really rotten features of my Blackberry! So there!!

Chuckle.!! I am going to take a break from the whole iPhone good vs bad thing for a while. I am overloading on humor and really stupid people. LOL So, I think that I will drop back into the iPhone , . . . say around the 15th of July. And then take a fresh look.

Later,
en

I love how all these "experts" keep coming out and saying that the iPhone will fail because it's insecure, and not fit for business use, etc., etc., etc.

First of all, none of these pinheads has ever even touched one. They don't know anything more about how it's going to work than you or I.

Second of all, they never give any actual reasons why it's supposedly insecure, we're just supposed to take their word on it. If nothing else, security should be the absolute last worry here because it's running OS X, the most secure OS in the world.

I'd be willing to bet that the Redmond Monster is behind all the hit pieces. Microsoft Henchmen 'R' Us is doing a booming business right now.

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?

how about this scenario?

The 2nd Gen iPhone is announced 6 MONTHS after the 1st Gen Debuts... It has GPS, supports Flash, works in 3G and works with Exchange server. Those who bought the 1st Gen phone can trade them in for 70% of the value of their original purchase. Apple then resells the first gen to consumers at a refurb price
$399

and Business gets hit by a huge wave of iPhones.