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| Re: Hey thad, check this out for a laugh [message #94958 is a reply to message #94953] |
Sun, 20 January 2008 12:11  |
TCB
Messages: 1261
Registered: July 2007
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This is a great example of what blows my mind about Apple. I understand they
want to be a boutique, nichy kind of company. Their add campaigns scream
this, hip, relaxed Mac user is $350 designer jeans in contrasted with balding,
portly, half wit in an ill fitting brown suit. Apple has zero chance in the
big iron in corporate America. It's all Unix/MS Server 200X at the OS level,
Oracle/MS SQL Server for databases, and IBM/Sun/HP/Dell hardware. And, of
course Exchange for mail.
But again, what blows my mind is it seems that Apple actively _antagonizes_
corporate users. Sure, they don't want to be 'tainted' by the fat guy in
the brown suit, but hell, my money is as good as the money in the pocket
in the designer jeans, and if I want to spend it on an iPhone why make so
bloody difficult to get it and use it with our gear?
This all might be moot soon, of course. Exchange 2007, while being a typical
toad of a M$oft 'upgrade,' has a _stunning_ web mail client. It's so good
I wonder if we're going to install desktop Outlook clients when we make the
leap. It's really that good.
TCB
P.S. As an aside, I have met some stunningly beautiful, stylish, interesting
women working in the finance racket. I think it's proof that everyone likes
money, so this job isn't all fat guys in brown suits, though there certainly
are plenty of those as well.
"chuck duffy" <c@c.com> wrote:
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> http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArtic leBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9057718& taxonomyId=12&intsrc=kc_top
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>No exchange for the iPhone, but apparently its getting a notes client.
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>Anyway, here's HTCs attempt at some iPhone like features :-) I have last
>months HTC and it is pretty damn cool.
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>Chuck
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