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Apple Allows Lotus On iPhone (After Banning Competitor)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stay-classy-apple dept.

ImNotAtWork writes "Apple is allowing IBM's Lotus to be installed on iPhones. Recently it killed a developer-submitted program that was deemed competitive with Apple's product."

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  1. But it is IBM, not a no name competitor by nomad63 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The inherent reason to allow lotus notes on the i-evil-phone is to penetrate into the corporate IT infrastructure to replace the crackberry. As most of the readers here know, IBM's Lotus Notes still hold a chunky size of enterprise messaging market, to the dismay of Redmond. By allowing Lotus notes, they are making the inroads.

    Also whoever thinks Lotus notes has a better UI than any mail app, is insane in my opinion. People use Lotus notes because they have to by corporate policy. When they add it to their i-phones, it is not going to replace the use of mailapp by no means, with the exception of 3 masochistic i-phone owners. Whereas the addition of a better functioning maill front end, might force Apple to revisit theor own mail app, which means money out of Steve the conman's pocket. It is intolerable...

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  2. Re:And the reason is... by norminator · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is no grounds for comparing the app that was banned (essentially a Gmail front end as an app) and "allowing" iNotes ultralite that is actually a web page on your Notes/Domino server. This is just bad journalism on behalf of NY Times and seconded here.

    Also - apple "allows" gmail web front end on iphone just exactly the same way it "allows" iNotes ultralite.

    Did you hear? I just found out that they are also allowing slashdot and digg! This is great!