Will the iPhone Flop in Business like Gartner predicts or will It make a great tool for some?

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June 21, 2007
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macmanager (not verified) | June 21, 2007 - 10:07am

Closed platform and no access to corporate email will definitely keep me from purchasing one. Not interested at this time. Now where's my Blackberry..... :)

Jorge Pérez (not verified) | June 24, 2007 - 11:01am

I don't need corporate email access. I already have a company laptop for that. I want the iPhone for me not corporate use. Corporations that need their people to be connected at all times, will provide the devices. I want the iPhone to access my Gmail, Yahoo and Mail email accounts.

Ferdinand (not verified) | June 21, 2007 - 5:23pm

As long as iPhone does not offer a pushmail service it will no match for Blackberry addicts. Therefore I predict, that the iPhone will only cause a moderate dent in Blackberry sales.

macmanager (not verified) | June 22, 2007 - 11:40am

I believe that the iPhone will be a bigger success than the ipod for the simple fact that Mr. Jobs along with just about all of his colleagues and employees have been using this limited, semi usable devises, PDA's & so-called smartphones and struggling with every function for just as long as the rest of us. They on the other hand do not believe that it is our destiny to have to suffer for the want of something better (which is what Microsoft and many of their partners seem to have been successful at convincing 90% of the technology world to believing) and finally, after running the numbers I'm sure :), Mr. Jobs said hey, we can do this the right way.

BTW, with all the blubbery that's been circulating about the touchscreen and no click keys yada, yada, yada, did anyone think about the fact that Apple has created a devise with "NO HHARDWARE LIMITATIONS"! Basically, any fuction that anyone can think of at this time can be added with an update through the operating system. I guess they were just lucky on that one Huh!

I don't just hand my money over to anyone unless it's for something that I need, it enhances my life greatly (business or personal), and it usually goes the company that shows me that they had "me" in mind when the designed the product. I think everyone is scarambling right now because Apple is showing them what it is for a company to "EARN" a customers trust, spending $, and therefore their loyalty.

I guess I'm just a little tired of listening to gripes of a bunch of wash women with nothing to write about (they can thank Microsoft for that)! Me? I like things that just work!

Tom

shiltsy (not verified) | June 24, 2007 - 6:02am

Ditto. The lack of push email and current requirement to open up imap to the outside world will make iPhone a non-starter for me (TRUST ME, I'd love to make it work!).

jlperez67 (not verified) | June 24, 2007 - 11:08am

If my company needs me to be connected at all times, they will provide the device. I want the iPhone for me. I want to access my Apple Mail, Gmail and Yahoo accounts on the go. It is not a device intended for Corporations.

Mart (not verified) | June 24, 2007 - 1:12pm

Gartner is widely recognized as not knowing their butts from their elbows.

iamwm (not verified) | June 26, 2007 - 1:57am

Push email? Got that. Proprietary? Like blackberry isn't.

I've helped setup the Blackberry software on an exchange server and no only is it really expensive when only the CEOs have blackberries, but you don't get push email except from an exchange server, so that's 2 very proprietary companies having to work together.

Apple is just starting in cell phones, so I think they're off to a great start. Google and Yahoo.

Connect to any IMAP or POP3 server, and Yahoo Push Mail. Calendar can syncs with Outlook if that's your thing. Oh, and it has WiFi G built in with a desktop class web browser for ALL your websites (except those that require MS Windows which you won't get on any other cell phone either {PocketPC/WindowsCE does't count according to MS}) and rumor has it VPN is already included. Blackberry business minded enough to have VPN on a phone?

Macs have shared files with Windows since I was in High School at least (late 80s), and VPN means you could read files right off your corporate file servers if you have a fast enough connection (even in a town of 800 in SW Montana I can get 1Mb on Free WiFi {Sheridan MT} so that should do).

You know it's going to be hacked quick so you can do crazy things like maybe even run Windows or Linux in Parallels. The thing is as powerful as a desktop computer from only a couple years ago and it runs the same OS as all current Macs. Sure they don't have GarageBand with it's 2 Gigs of Audio Loops, or much of the rest of iLife; But you probably could across a WiFi connection if you could find a way to launch it.

I'm looking forward to GPS features. If they're not already built in, then via 3rd party add ons, or in the next release. Pictures that have the GPS data embedded. Hope they have a compass too so you know where and which direction. Maybe even another sensor for gravity angle to tell if the pic is up, down or level. And directions/amenities based on where you currently are (not just where you think you are).

Wm