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Microsoft Employees Love Their iPhones
portscan writes "There is an entertaining and telling article in the Wall Street Journal about iPhone use by Microsoft employees. Apparently, despite it being frowned upon by senior management, iPhone use is rampant among the Redmond rank and file. The head of Microsoft's mobile division tried to explain it away as employees wanting 'to better understand the competition,' although few believe this. Nowhere does the article mention attempts by the company to understand why the iPhone is more attractive to much of Microsoft's tech-savvy workforce than the company's own products."
Can we tag that "duh"? I mean, if anyone knows the quality of MS Mobile phones, it's the people making them. So do they use them?
Well, duh.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The iPhone is really the ultimate phone IMO - you can make it look and behave exactly as you want (within it's very wide limits).
And here, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call an Apple fanboy. Not so subtle one, either.
It's a pretty slick entertainment device, but absolutely sucks as a business phone. I've been given one by the office, to replace my paid-for-by-myself unlocked Nokia E61. I keep dropping calls because I inadvertently press the end call big huge button that's right where I pick up the phone, I can't snooze meeting reminders so keep missing meetings, the touch keyboard sucks so much I gave up typing SMS's and emails on it, the silent button keeps being activated when I take it out of my pocket, and don't get me started on the locked down platform. To stop music play when I use the iPod takes a number of clicks, whereas with my standalone iPod it's one click. I honestly don't understand why people like it. Ok. I'm lying - I saw "Idiocracy", so I know exactly why people like it ;).
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iPhone does not matter.