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What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) For Business
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman investigates what businesses can expect from Apple's new iOS 4. Multitasking, the biggest new capability, is for now simply a promise, as apps will need to be retrofitted to make use of the capability. The other big new capability for IT, a set of APIs that allow BlackBerry-like management of the iPhone, such as auditing of policies and apps, over-the-air provisioning of apps without iTunes, and over-the-air configuration and policy management, also remains in the realm of promise, as the various mobile management tools that have been reworked to take advantage of the new iOS 4 capabilities won't be available until July or later. And despite the fact that email works more as it does on the desktop, iOS 4 still fails to deliver several email capabilities key to business users, including zipped attachment management, junk mail filtering, message rules, and message flagging."
No serious business users use iPhones or iPads. Those devices are merely entertainment devices. They don't boost business productivity at all.
I'm a hardware salesman, and I hate working with system admins with your attitude. You think you know better than I do about how I want to manage my communication? No, you don't.
I have four smartphones. One is for general use, and the other three are dedicated to major customers. I use one email account, but I want four different "views" of my email, depending on which phone I'm using. That's why I have separate rules set up on each phone, and that's why I don't want server-side rules, or other crap like that.
I bring in far more money to the company than you ever will. Call me a "F'd up sadistic moron" all you want. That doesn't change the fact that you're short-sighted and ignorant about how your users use their email and other communication methods.
Wow. -1 Troll to you my friend.
You obviously haven't seen what retailers are doing with these devices.
Mike @ The Geek Pub. Let's Make Stuff!
And how's your warranty looking these days? It shouldn't be expected behaviour that you have to invalidate a warranty that you've paid for just to be able to use the device to its full.
mac faggot alert! mod him -1 or slashdot will become 100 percent gay!
You mean owners of long since broken down, warranty expired, 1st generation iPods...
OH! sorry...*blerg* you said iPhone not iPod...my bad...i thought that sounded weird considering the topic...
Ok, let me reiterate;
You mean owners of soon to be broken down, warranty expired, 1st generation iPhones.
My -1 Troll is actually a +1 funny. And my -1 flame is actually a +1 insightfull.
Spot on. The iPhone is marketed as a toy, not a business tool. Why would people expect anything different? Get a Blackberry.