usatoday.com— USA Today Q&A with Steve Jobs and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson elude to corporate email support as a software update! w00t!
Jun 28, 2007View in Crawl 4
At my last job we had an X-Server... the thing crashed at least twice a day, and corrupted our data frequently... So I wouldn't be particularly surprised if it's market wasn't that large, or strong. It's a terrible product.
Uh, no, it'd take more than that. Unless your company was already tied to ATT you'd have to get out of your existing contracts. Even at a medium sized company such as mine, we have 50 lines of service, most with 2 yr contracts. To break those contracts and purchase new devices would cost a ton. Not to mention if you've already made an investment in BES for your blackberry.
I do not know, but I suspect they were focusing on the core product. After all, they have several application and service initiatives in the back-burners as iPhone firmware updates for the coming months.Either way, if they do intend to target a business market segment aggressively, a delay of only a few weeks will not effect the overall outcome, whether that is success or failure.
You're obviously not actually IN a corporate IT environment, or have the foggiest idea about the iPhone.Guess what, it supports MS Exchange servers! *GASP* Guess what, it also supports traditional unix networking applications! Oh my, you don't have to deploy an xserve to run the iPhone with your office? That must be crazy talk! Apple licensed Microsoft server technology specifically to integrate with existing corporate networks?? For shame! More than that, the web applications, such as the web-based LDAP app demoed on the iPhone only requires ANY server that can serve HTML and Javascript?? Have I blown your mind yet, or at least convinced you to actually do research before commenting?the iPhone does all of these, because as great as Apple is at marketing, they realize that this isn't a game of othello where you try to flip all the white pieces over to black; they NEED to integrate and support other companies protocols to survive.But wait... a company that isn't following Microsoft's vendor-lockin strategy... You mean there are other business models in the tech sector?*Watches joerao's head explode*
fredfredricksonJun 29, 2007
At my last job we had an X-Server... the thing crashed at least twice a day, and corrupted our data frequently... So I wouldn't be particularly surprised if it's market wasn't that large, or strong. It's a terrible product.
ichazJun 29, 2007
at least it's apple and not an unreliable other company who'd probably just drop the "promise" a "few months" later.
Closed AccountJun 29, 2007
Uh, no, it'd take more than that. Unless your company was already tied to ATT you'd have to get out of your existing contracts. Even at a medium sized company such as mine, we have 50 lines of service, most with 2 yr contracts. To break those contracts and purchase new devices would cost a ton. Not to mention if you've already made an investment in BES for your blackberry.
Closed AccountJun 29, 2007
You will. Oh you will.
diggumjonezJun 29, 2007
I didn't RTFA but I can certainly envision the two of them eluding to support for corporate email, just as easily as alluding to it.
robotsuJun 30, 2007
I do not know, but I suspect they were focusing on the core product. After all, they have several application and service initiatives in the back-burners as iPhone firmware updates for the coming months.Either way, if they do intend to target a business market segment aggressively, a delay of only a few weeks will not effect the overall outcome, whether that is success or failure.
robotsuJun 30, 2007
You're obviously not actually IN a corporate IT environment, or have the foggiest idea about the iPhone.Guess what, it supports MS Exchange servers! *GASP* Guess what, it also supports traditional unix networking applications! Oh my, you don't have to deploy an xserve to run the iPhone with your office? That must be crazy talk! Apple licensed Microsoft server technology specifically to integrate with existing corporate networks?? For shame! More than that, the web applications, such as the web-based LDAP app demoed on the iPhone only requires ANY server that can serve HTML and Javascript?? Have I blown your mind yet, or at least convinced you to actually do research before commenting?the iPhone does all of these, because as great as Apple is at marketing, they realize that this isn't a game of othello where you try to flip all the white pieces over to black; they NEED to integrate and support other companies protocols to survive.But wait... a company that isn't following Microsoft's vendor-lockin strategy... You mean there are other business models in the tech sector?*Watches joerao's head explode*
ericgiguereMar 19, 2009
If you want Lotus Domino/Notes support (or are looking for better Microsoft Exchange support) then take a look at Sybase iAnywhere Mobile Office, which just went live with iPhone support in the App Store:<a class="user" href="http://www.sybase.com/products/mobileenterprise/iphone" rel="nofollow">http://www.sybase.com/products/mobileenterprise/ip ...</a>