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Sep 30, 08 - 09:31 am Comment from: MacintoshSoftwareList.com

It looks like it will require the IT department to implement this because is it web based. This SUCKS!!! This should have been an app that you could login to with your email password. THIS SUCKS.

Sep 30, 08 - 09:38 am Comment from: jonahan

I've had this for about a week now. It's ok but I'd really like an actual app better.

Sep 30, 08 - 10:03 am Comment from: MobileAdmin

It's basically web based access Notes style. Users need to grasp that regardless of your mobile device, companies have concerns over their data (email) and we have a ton of regulatory issues to abide by. Functionality is not as critical as security

Until iphone proves whole device encryption, a way to effectively manage them (read itunes not required) and a way to audit SMS messages it will have a hard time being adopted regardless how cool it is. Not helping that all the latest ads just show games being played on it.

@ MobileAdmin

FYI:
The latest ads are showing the iPod Touch and are highlighting the games. Not the iPhone. Although I can see how the average consumer would confuse the two. (Not that you're an average consumer)

Sep 30, 08 - 11:07 am Comment from: macintosh16tx

They decide to come out with this, at the same time our company has almost finished the switch to Exchange... Wonderful.

Sep 30, 08 - 11:09 am Comment from: Jubei

Web based? Why?

Sep 30, 08 - 11:24 am Comment from: TheConfuzed1

Actually I noticed two different app store ads last night, during Heroes.

Each featured the iPhone, and only one featured a game. The game was Cro Mag Ralley (or whatever it's called), and the other app was an English to Mandarin translator.

In both cases, the ad ended with an incoming phone call.

--Web based? Why?--

Because as MobileAdmin explained, there's no way to control data otherwise.

Sep 30, 08 - 11:51 am Comment from: jtc

this is pointless... I've already been using the web bases inotes since I got the 3G iphone. The one problem I have is continually needing to login. So hopefully after IBMs servers stop getting slammed I can download this crap and see how it is. I hope I wont have to login to my email every time I want to check.. it gets annoying

As much as Safari crashes, I'd hate to rely on it for anything real important.

*begins to enter important business data*

*data entry sluggish; cursor stutters*

*can feel the crash coming!*

*black screen!!!*

*fail...*

Sep 30, 08 - 01:38 pm Comment from: jtc

@R2

are you speaking of the safari 4 beta? I have never seen my screen go black

Sep 30, 08 - 05:29 pm Comment from: Predrag

Web-based interface has serious limitations. This won't be the same as when using Mail with Exchange. Your mail, contacts, calendar, etc. remains on your iPhone. You can turn the radios off (on a plane) and still work with your messages, appointments, etc.

With web-based iNotes, you're stuck until the plane lands. I won't say this is useless, but it isn't much better than the existing web-mail; it doesn't merit such special plugging.

In order to effectively support iPhone, Lotus needs to deliver a real mobile client application. Considering that the desktop Notes (both Mac, as well as Win version) is a behemoth, I can't possibly imagine Lotus squeezing all desktop functionality into a mobile version. Even just messaging, calendaring, contacts and to-do would be a nightmare, mainly because the Notes client is just a runtime environment for Notes-based applications, and as such contains tons of libraries. IBM has painted itself into a corner with the Notes platform.

Let's hope GroupWise becomes available for iPhone soon. That would be the third big collaboration tool out there (after Exchange and Notes).

Lotus Notes sucks ass on the desktop. It is however very popular with large companies so it is a good thing for the iPhone