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But, but, but the iPhone is not a business phone....

Aug 15, 08 - 04:18 pm Comment from: Jubei

A couple of more firmware updates and the iPhone will be the best business smartphone out there.

Aug 15, 08 - 05:08 pm Comment from: Spark

"Oracle Business Indicators was developed for 3G iPhone users..."

Any reason to believe this software wouldn't work on 1st gen iPhones using 2.0 software? Wouldn't think so.

But Windows Mobile App store has 18,000 apps for windows mobile... of course no body downloaded any app from there...

Too much for a handheld with "no Plastic keyboard" is it Steve Ballmer?

SO they download it a bunch of times. Doesnt matter if they end up just throwing the iphone away does it? a lot of real business people are just throeing their iphones way, they cant even sell them they are so useless. guess Steve Jobztard doesnt care since he still made the sale.

BAck to the litle leagues Apple.

Aug 15, 08 - 06:00 pm Comment from: occams razor

throeing WTF!!

I am one of the UK downloaders of Oracle indicators. I run it on my iPod Touch which is on the wifi in house and gives me status updates of critical factors as and when I need them. Got a gen 1 iPhone as well but still have that jb'd on 1.1.4 only. Tend to use that mainly as a phone and as I do a lot of travelling use sims from 8 or 9 countries rather than roam. The iPod Touch is more of a pocket computer rather than an iPod though I do keep some music on it.

I also have it on good authority that a well know OSX project management software author is working on an iPhone version that will allow full creation and maintenance of plans that can be synced back to the desktop version. Cool.... Can't wait.

If you stop to think about it the iPhone and Touch are as powerful as the average desktop of ten years ago.

Aug 15, 08 - 06:31 pm Comment from: AAPLguy

@huh

Throwing then away....really?

If they ARE throwing them away they are stupider than you are. iPhone 3Gs are selling for upwards of 700.00 on ebay.

Aug 15, 08 - 06:41 pm Comment from: Cubert

@Viktor,

"But Windows Mobile App store has 18,000 apps for windows mobile... of course no body downloaded any app from there..."

And, of course, if you want to burn an image of tiny pixelated icons into your retina, you can download some Winblows Mobile apps.

http://www.getjar.com/software/universal/all

Aug 15, 08 - 07:42 pm Comment from: cogitoergomac

@Huh: you are patheirc if you actually believe what you wrote.

Hey he is Rob Enderle so of course he knows what he is talking about lol.

Aug 16, 08 - 09:12 am Comment from: HMCIV

@Huh

Jobztard?

In the category of creative abuse you receive zero points.
In the category of believable story you receive zero points.
In the category of self deprecating post, you receive 10 points.
And in the category of SUCK IT you receive 2 points.

Your final score after taxes, inflation and urine tests is 7 Zune Marketplace points.

This should be much bigger space for the iPhone. The problem is with most enterprise software admin or manager apps. Most RDBMS, app servers, corporate email, and network apps, have a web interface but usually built with so much bloat (frames, popups, JSP or ASP.NET) that they are impossible to use on most mobiles, and still buggy and difficult even on the iPhone. Now if they follow Apple's guidelines and build them more elegantly (and easier to use) on the iPhone, there's no reason why every sys admin/dba would not make his company give him one. And trust me, whatever the sysadm/dba wants, the sysadm/dba gets.

Aug 16, 08 - 04:14 pm Comment from: Macromancer

"a lot of real business people are just throeing their iphones way,"

Evidence please. And "I know a guy who bought it and gave it away" doesn't count. Let's see some real evidence Sport, then I'll believe you.

It's about time they produced an app for the Bi community..

Aug 18, 08 - 02:21 pm Comment from: Mel Gross

Well @Huh is just trolling for responses.

The more annoyed he thinks we are, the happier he is.

You know the expression - "Don't feed the troll."

Om nom nom nom.

Burp!

(Nobody could take Huh seriously. Wintrolls now parody themselves, as they come around to the world of OS X, desktop, laptop, and mobile flavors alike.)