What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) For Business 253
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."
Email capabilities (Score:5, Insightful)
What F'd up sadistic moron would push the junk mail filtering, message rules, and flagging down to the client? Wouldn't that mean that each client would be configured separately? I always set up that stuff so the user can configure it at the server level so that their laptop, desktop, phone, etc all are seeing the same exact mailstore. These are probably the same people that considering having "Sent Items" only stored on the actual device that did the sending be the way to go.
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I'm not sure thats how it is set up. I can't imagine connecting an iPhone to my gmail account and having my junkmail filters not apply.
I think the reason why the iOS4 might "fail to deliver" those email capabilities is BECAUSE they are handled by the email server. Perhaps the issue is that the iPhone cannot change those settings from the device, but thats not to say the settings aren't still there. After all, any phone I've ever heard of phone just requests the headers of your inbox, and then when you choos
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The iPhone does not have client filters, client spam management, or client-based flagging. Of those three, the only one that actually makes sense on the client is flagging.
Filtering at the client level only makes sense if you only have one client, are using POP3, and are storing the messages on the client. That's really not a good idea with a phone - you'll have synchronization collisions, you'll find that some mail is missing on your phone that was present on your laptop/desktop, etc. If you're using a pho
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The junkmail filters on the server continue to apply. The complaint is that you cant set up filters on the phone. Kind of silly though since you want the messages filtered out before they are shipped down to the device. Why pay for wireless bandwidth for spam?
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If you're the user and your server isn't doing a good enough job filtering junk mail, then you'll want junk filtering in the client. And regardless of that, you may want support for configuring your junk mail options in the client, such as marking messages as junk for bayesian analysis. Same basic idea for the rest of this stuff.
Part of the problem is that email itself isn't very well designed for how most of us currently use email. It's simple, which is nice, but it's not built to address complex filte
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You know, we have all these fancy filtering and tagging things but outside of IT, I don't think I've ever seen a single one used.
The only thing I have seen used is folders, but then the end-user almost invariably moves email into folders by hand.
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I've seen plenty of people use Outlook's "Rules", even some relatively non-technical people. One of the problems there is that mail servers (excepting Exchange) don't usually have good server-side filtering along with client-side configuration of that filtering.
I don't bother setting up client-side filtering on my personal email account because it only works if that client, and I don't always check my email from the same client.
I don't bother tagging my email because it's not something that's handled con
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I see the exact opposite. I rarely use any filters or tags on my emails. I sort them the old fashioned way with folders for each category and a whole slew of rules to filter them on arrival. On the other hand whenever I visit various executive assistants workstations, they seem to have everything filtered and categorized and tagged up the wazoo. It seems to functionality that is appreciated.
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If you're the user and your server isn't doing a good enough job filtering junk mail, then you'll want a better configured server. In alternative, I'd set up a relay server to fetch the messages from the main server, filter them and then serve them to the client(s).
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Nice if you're the IT guy and not just the user. Savvy users might still do something like have Gmail fetch their mail from another service, but not everyone is going to be eager to do that.
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What moron wants to open a zipped file attachment on his PHONE. I want to see the email is there, then I open my laptop and grab the full email and do what I want.
I keep hearing this red-herring about attachments and zipped attachments on email on phones, and can not find one person that actually truely needs or would use this. What complete fool is gonna open a zip, open the spreadsheet and then edit it on his fricking phone? None. you see it's there, drop into the nearest coffee shop, whip open that
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I agree with 66% of your message.
It's actually very handy being able to flag a message in my inbox from my mobile device (as well as complete the flag or clear it), assuming of course that it is sync'd back to the server (which is what happens with Exchange 2010).
So when I see an email come in (on my mobile or my workstation) that is very important, I can flag it.
Then whenever I'm looking at my inbox on my mobile it will stand out, and likely remind me to take care of it. And after I have, I can flag it co
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You are a moron, use 4 accounts and 1 phone. Thankfully the company I work in IT is what makes the bucks.
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Please give me the name of the company you work for, as well as the address of the location you're at. I want to make sure I never deal with them.
I get a sense the feeling would be mutual and appreciated.
He probably has four separate phones because he has four separate phone numbers, and needs to be able to at least accept voicemail messages if more than one of his major clients call at the same time.
I assume he does not have four separate computers to deal with four clients - so why does he have four phones? There is no reason one phone cannot get calls for four numbers, each with separate voice-mail or even with one voicemail box with separate greetings. I get a feeling the guy is such an ass to his IT guys, they are probably betting on how much torture they can put the poor idiot through ("I bet we can get him to carry three phone...." "NO, ho
Re:Email capabilities (Score:4, Insightful)
I have four smartphones.
Really? Why? Please tell me you don't have four hip holsters.
Yes, I did read the rest of your post. No, it still doesn't make sense.
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If four different email views are critical to your operation, it sounds to me like your IT staff are the ones bringing in the money.
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I'm a hardware salesman.....
I have four smartphones........
.... 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.
Actually I believe he called your IT stuff "F'd up sadistic morons" - they are the ones inflicting this onto you. You are a salesman, nobody here expects you to understand these things...
-Em
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I bring in far more money to the company than you ever will.
Way to loose all credibility right there. Your IT staff is what keeps your entire sales force moving. They keep your production on line so you have things to sell, they make sure that you can communicate quickly and efficiently with your suppliers.
IT is central to most every business in this day and age and people who ignore that fact are fools. You like having those 4 phones? You like having email and calls routed to them? Thats IT. You can
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And meanwhile the rest of us think you are insane for carrying four seperate phones to do the job of one. Do you have four seperate computers to connect to each of the different servers too?
It's not a matter of money its a matter of efficiency and stupidy. Just because you don't know HOW to accomplish your goal of having four separate views in an intelligent manner and found a truly shoddy workaround doesn't mean you know what you are doing.
You are a hardware salesman, unless your specialty is communicati
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You are indeed an F'd up sadistic moron. Really. Do you carry four pair of pants with you at all times? One for general use and the other three for your major customers. Holy fuckin' shit.
That would be silly, there is no need for separate pants for each major customer.
But you do need a separate belt for each belt-clip on each phone... so each belt would need a separate pants.... oh, crap, I guess he does need separate pants ;-)
-Em
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Please don't try to make sensible posts on Slashdot, it might explode the fanboys heads in the basement.
"haha, Its funny cuz its true"
Junk Mail - not an issue (Score:2)
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Shouldn't (mass) junk be filtered at the server level (especially in an enterprise setting)?
Even in personal email, I rely on my provider to do most of the heavy lifting of SPAM removal for me.
Agreed.
Sure, some of it is going to get through... But it shouldn't be enough that managing junk mail should be a major feature on a smartphone.
If you've got that much junk mail coming through to your phone, you need to look at how it is (or isn't) being filtered at the server.
As a former Blackberry user... (Score:5, Interesting)
One thing I miss is the ability to do different notifications based on filters / profiles set up. The Blackberry can do this by flagging certain messages as a "Level 1 Notification" and then you can set normal messages to come in quietly, but Level 1 messages can vibrate, ring, whatever you configure it to do. It's great to get notified when your boss or superior email you, but let the other 200 emails a day just collect quietly.
The other feature I wish existed is when I reply to a message on my iPhone, that it shows up in Outlook as replied to (via the Exchange ActiveSync). Without it, there's sometimes confusion whether I've replied to this or not when reviewing the emails on my desktop.
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Not sure if this works on the iPhone, as I'm not sure what level of GMail Integration is present there, but if you happen to be using GMail, try the following:
Have the messages you don't want to bother you set to be moved to a label and immediately archived, via a filter... Gmail will then no longer notify for these messages, because it only notifies for things that actually land in the inbox. Since this works for Gtalk and Gmail notifier on the PC as well as on the Android GMail app, I'm presuming it'd wor
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I agree.
And Calendar appointments too. The default alarm is short, doesn't repeat and completely ineffective.
Some appointments are life-threatening if you miss them: Pick up the kids, tax audit, anniversary...
The mac (Score:3, Insightful)
'You know all the games for the Mac are great because you played them a PC three years ago'
The iPhone, with its quality touch screen and beautiful, lickable looks, continues to announce 'amazing new features' that have been available in Blackberrys (Blackberries?) for nearly a decade.
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>> The iPhone, with its quality touch screen and beautiful, lickable looks, continues to announce 'amazing new features' that have been available in Blackberrys (Blackberries?) for nearly a decade.
There's a difference in philosophy here... Apple may be slow with some things like that, but when they do release it, they do it DAMN well (in most cases... at least). Quality and user experience rank much higher for them than simple feature list comparisons - and that's the single reason they have a highly
Re:The mac (Score:5, Interesting)
Yeah, I got kind of sold on the "it's even better than the iPhone" Android hype and got myself an HTC Incredible. Now obviously this is a matter of personal needs and personal preference, but I now consider that purchase to be a mistake.
For one thing, and this is only the most blatant problem, the damned thing crashes all the time. It's not too bad, but I feel it vibrate in my pocket, and when I check the phone, it's rebooting. But all in all, it's a pretty minor problem.
The bigger problem, though more subtle, is that the UI design is kind of a mess. I don't mean "the GUI is not pretty", but that the user interaction is unclear. For example, calendar events pop up in the notification area, but if you clear that notification, you have not dismissed it; it will pop up again in a couple minutes. Or there's a "favorites" widget for your favorite contacts that notifies you when those contacts' Facebook status has been updated, but if you press on that notification, it immediately calls that contact.
More generally, a lot of the user interaction is hidden in context menus and under the menu button. It's sometimes unclear what hitting a given button will actually do. I feel like I'm constantly jumping through hoops to get the damned thing to do what I want.
To my mind, it doesn't matter "who did it first". The question is, right now, what's the best phone you can buy. As far as I'm concerned, the iPhone is it.
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Not to diminish your experiences, but I've never felt the UI on my Droid was lacking. Whatever I need to do is in a place I'd expect to find it, I just go by intuition and it works.
I believe you when you say it doesn't work for you, of course. I just wanted to underscore your point, that it is a matter of personal preference.
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Re:The mac (Score:5, Insightful)
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Blackberrys (Blackberries?)
Crackberries. "Marion" for short.
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As a Californian, I have always found those berries imported from your state to be delicious.
If I can de-leak my Ford (heh heh) then I will be driving it up into the boonies of those environs to visit some people. I drove through it in a U-Haul once, but that's another story.
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Blackberrys (Blackberries?)
Corporate/Product words fall outside of normal English rules. You will often have words created which include letters from other alphabets, intentional misspellings, even numbers. An easy way to break it down is to treat trademarked names as adjectives attached to common nouns.
Pontiac Cars instead of Pontiacs.
Blackberry Phones instead of blackberries.
In a way, it provides a very crude metric for determining when these words fall into the vernacular. When people begin to treat
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My droid needs no lame protector, get a phone with a gorilla glass screen and STFU!
I also have both keyboard and touch screen. RIM man in the middles all your mail, plus whenever BES has an issue your mail stop working.
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I've known many people with busted iPhone screens, but guess what? The touchscreen element still works just peachy for them. Can't see a damn thing on the display from shattered glass, but it still works.
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I'm a senior engineer and wouldn't go back to a Pearl or other Blackberry from my iPhone if you paid me; the only way I would is if a company I worked for forced using a Blackberry, and t
Re:The mac (Score:4, Insightful)
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Honestly what Apple have done isn't so much listening to developer's requests as it is fulfilling those requests to the greatest extent possible *without compromising user experience*.
Not compromising user experience, even potentially, appears to be their guiding principle and it's served them well. Slashdot will never love Apple because they aren't the target market. I, like a lot of people who swear by the iPhone - actively want appliance computing when it comes to a smart phone. I actively want the walled gardens of the XBox 360, PS3, Appstore, Wii, and even Steam, because these things substantially reduce malware and/or cheaters. I understand that it is fundamental to the basic principals of a Turing machine that they can never eliminate these things (ie virtual machines, etc.), merely reduce to a level unlikely to affect me. But in practice that's all I need, much like how in practice I only *need* 256-bit TLS for securing online purchases.
The antagonism seen towards Apple on Slashdot is due to the fact that it's an explosively growing market segment that isn't targeted for the core Slashdot demographic. It implies that the world is moving on from them, and nobody likes to hear that.
--Ryv
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The only reason they didn't do multi-tasking was because the iPhones 1 and 3G weren't powerful enough to deliver a smooth experience. I don't recall anyone at apple claiming multi-tasking is bad.
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for instance, you'd be forgiven, having read the mainstream media the last few days, for thinking they invented multi-tasking, when not long ago they were busy explaining why it was such a bad idea for mobile devices
No, you wouldn't be forgiven. Apple did not invent multitasking, and nobody with a brain or a clue says that they did. They also never claimed that it was a bad idea for mobile devices. They said the current implementations were bad for mobile devices in their opinion, and historically there has been support for those claims.
As is evident from copy/paste, multitasking, and several other features, Apple takes the time to get the implementation right and make the features more accessible to a wider audience,
A few related stories (Score:3, Informative)
Much to my surprise, there has been a lot of press coverage about the iOS 4 in the enterprise:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177830/iPhone_4_iOS_4_offer_deeper_enterprise_support [computerworld.com]
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/062110-five-ways-apples-ios-4.html [networkworld.com]
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/062110-iphone-ios4-apis-management.html [networkworld.com]
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/07/iphone-os-4-0-now-ios-is-here/ [mobilecrunch.com]
And no dialing location fields of meetings... (Score:2, Informative)
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Perhaps you mean a huge failure?
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You could also blame MS for making the bridge field really really really hard to find. I don't see why Apple can't just dial whatever is in the location field though.
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Can you copy-and-paste the 14-digit conference code + security code now? That's the one that kills me.
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A missing detail is a "huge fail"? Uh oh, someone's lost their sense of scale meter!
I dunno. Seems to me that a smartphone should let you dial pretty much anything that looks like a phone number from pretty much anywhere. It's just text, right? Add some ability to select it and automatically copy/paste the digits into the dialing interface. Doesn't seem that hard to me.
The alternative is to make people manually copy & paste those digits into the dialing interface, or write them out and dial them in manually - both of which seem more awkward than they should be.
Especially when it is
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Actually, the iPhone has had this feature since version 1.0 three years ago. Pretty much any number in an email message, web page, or SMS/text message can be tapped on and will dial automatically in the Phone application.
a lot of the features are already on the server (Score:2)
message rules are on the exchange server. junk mail is handled by the SMTP gateway.
BES does have an advantage since they have years of development lead time, but Apple/MS are catching up fairly fast. and the Apple/MS activesync solution is a lot cheaper and no server required. we've had a BES server for years and rarely used most of the management features. doesn't mean people don't use them, but a lot of organizations don't care to lock down people's cell phones. you can also write web apps with no itunes
Email design decisions (Score:3, Insightful)
I am surprised that all these capability are needed for a mobile client. In particular, i would think corporate would want to junk email filtering at the server, otherwise there would be risk that an individual user might overfilter.
Likewise zipped attachments are something that is used for desktop, but I don't know why anyone would use them on a mobile device, but then I don't see why i get memos in MS Word format instead of PDF. Sometimes the feature bloat drives the bad habits. I suppose that on some mobile devices application installation might happen through email.
I would also like to see message rule and flagging pushed back to the server. I might be using one of four machines to look at mail. Everything is stored on the server. Keeping the rules consistant on all machines can be a pain. It would be much better to be able to set up one server to check mail, then reroute, then all the other machines feed off that. When I used to one machines going all the time at home, this more or less happened.
In any case many of these complaints seem more about wanting to do things the old fashion way rather than genuine functionality. It is like complaining that Python does not have a traditional for...next loop. Get over it.
Unzipping actually would be nice (Score:5, Insightful)
Junk mail, rules, and filtering absolutely should happen at the server level if you are using Exchange or IMAP, and any business still using POP for email is just shooting themselves in the foot for not understanding their tech better.
However, unzipping would be kind of nice. People send attachments to each other all the time, and email servers have attachment limits. New iPhone users will also have limited data bandwidth. It would be nice if someone could send me that file zipped to 20-50% so I could save time. It takes less time to download files than it does to unzip them and in advanced situations with larger files every little bit helps. Granted, you may be correct in that there are better solutions than trying to email me a 250 MB spreadsheet on a device that probably can't display it in a sophisticated manner.
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I use zip files all the time on my phone, they're useful for all kinds of reasons, such as to get around email servers aggresively blocking things like .js files, or when someone needs to preserve a directory hierarchy in a bunch of emailed files (i.e. they need me to debug some web code). Some devices might put all downloads into one directory, in which case if someone's emailing me fifty icons to approve, I'd rather they sent them as a zip that I can easily locate and move to my desired directory than hav
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The point is every business user has different needs, and an organization can contain hundreds of different subsets of "needs." It may be multiple ways to get the same thing done, but what works for one may not work for another.
Apple is used to telling its users what they want, but that won't fly with the corporate market. The business market already has many other options willing to take it in the ass for a contract. Anecdotal evidence on usage means nothing.
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One of my clients has automated scripts that zip any file over 20k. Every spreadsheet gets zipped... not being able to access the archives is quite a PITA.
Junk mail filtering (Score:2)
The lack of filtering on mail is my biggest complaint (iPhone and iPad too)... it makes using mail frustrating to say the least. I really don't understand how difficult that would be!!!
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Why not have your network operator do that?
Multitasking as defined by Apple (Score:2, Insightful)
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Can my app be performing tasks in the background while I'm using another application?
Yes. Apple has made it so that your entire application won't continue to run in the background, but that you can still have your application "performing tasks" (so long as it fits within the supported background "tasks").
From what I understand, Android does something similar. It's not crazy. It actually makes a whole hell of a lot of sense. If I'm reading an ebook, for example, I don't need to have my iPhone's system resources taken up trying to display a particular page that won't be displayed anyway because it's in the background. On a device with limited resources, it's better to suspend that whole application to free up resources.
So similarly with a browser, you don't need your browser actually trying to display web pages that aren't being displayed. All you need to do is enable background downloading. Downloading is pretty much the only thing that you actually want a browser to do in the background. Pretty much the only thing you want Skype to do in the background is receive calls. Pretty much the only thing you want Pandora to do in the background is download streaming audio and output it to the headphones-- you don't need Pandora to try to render album art that won't be displayed.
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The problem lies wherein you want an app to do something in the background, and Apple doesn't.
Re:Multitasking as defined by Apple (Score:4, Interesting)
The problem lies wherein you want an API to do something, and it doesn't.
FTFY. This isn't in any way a new problem. Witness Hildon/Maemo, and Android. They all have approaches for handling multiple user-interfacing applications and how they interact with power management. Apple has chosen an approach, and it looks good enough for 99% of use cases. Everyone who is still complaining at this point will continue to do so until they get real preemptive multithreading, which is not necessarily wise to allow for arbitrary apps on a mobile platform.
Even more generally than all that: An API does something, but you want it to do something else? Name me an API that *doesn't* have that problem. Combating feature creep and having a consistent and sensible development paradigm is really *hard*, and it looks like Apple is serious about it.
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Yes. Apple has made it so that your entire application won't continue to run in the background, but that you can still have your application "performing tasks" (so long as it fits within the supported background "tasks").
From what I understand, Android does something similar.
It does, but it also does proper background threads. They are complementary techniques, and the former is not a proper replacement for the latter.
Re:Multitasking as defined by Apple (Score:5, Informative)
If your app plays audio (for whatever reason) it WILL run in the background. (audio background mode)
If your VoIP app needs to maintain a network connection with a backend system so it can be told of incoming calls it WILL run in the background but only when network traffic is incoming or at a time you designate so you can keep your network connection alive. (voip background mode)
If your app needs to track your location it WILL run in the background with the level of location accuracy you designate. (location background mode)
(you can combine any combination of the above modes)
If your app needs to finish an active task, one that is not easily paused, it WILL run in the background.
If your application needs to do things at predetermined time you can schedule it and your app WILL run in the background.
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/BackgroundExecution/BackgroundExecution.html [apple.com]
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...clearly a temporary reality. Developers will update apps or release new apps utilizing these features (and the many others now available in iOS 4) over the coming months... or be faced with a competitor coming in with a better app. Several of the most popular apps that would benefit from multi-tasking are either already updated or in the approval process.
Learn what's defined by Apple (Score:2)
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Actually iOS multitasking works in exactly the same way as Android (i.e. when you switch away from an app its state is saved, and then it may be killed at any point).
The difference is that Android allows arbitrary 'Services' to run as well that aren't killed. Your app has to use these if you want 'true multitasking'. Apple seems to allow something like this, but with some kind of restrictions. I have no idea how they are enforced though.
Quality Control Issues (Score:2)
Message rules (Score:2)
Message rules belong on the server not in the client. The same goes for filtering of junkmail. Why in the world have a server then push all the work on the client?
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As long as you can filter on arbitrary header substrings then it's reasonable to offload all of that to the mailhost, which can also run a webserver exclusively for the manipulation of lists (or that can, of course, be separated.) Most filter solutions (including Spamassassin, of course) will tweak headers with spam scores so that the users can file them on the client end.
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No matter what you filter on, on a well designed system you can have the mailhost handle that.
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Poor Apple (Score:5, Funny)
They've only sold a few tens of millions of those things so far, and their new model took five whole hours to sell 600k units to regular customers, sight unseen. They'd better get their act together and start reaching out to the enterprise or that thing's gonna tank and take them with it.
Still fails to deliver? (Score:2, Insightful)
Bluetooth Audio? (Score:3, Informative)
Needs Profiles... and more (Score:2)
I wish Apple would build an update for profiles. I have a Jail broken phone and have a profiles add-on that allows me to set configurations for different things.
For example,
When I am at work my ringer turns off, vibrate goes on, WIFI turns off, 3G turns off, and notifications turn on.
When I get home, my WIFI turns back on, 3G turns back on, notifications turn off.
All that, and more happen based on time of day and GPS coordinates. It would also be great if they could make icons disappear based on profiles. W
Why iPhone vs Android is silly (Score:2)
I used to keep buying into the hype and rail against iPhone and for Android. Now having owned both, I recognize that the comparison itself is silly. Aside the "totalitarian regime" vs "pseudo-capitalism" difference in the platform philosophies, the products are like apples and oranges (pardon the pun). Its like comparing an old school word-processor and a computer(for fairness sake equally old-school) . This is not meant to belittle iPhone, but it is NOT a real smartphone. Its a really advanced feature pho
I could care less.... (Score:2)
about all the enterprise features they are putting or plan on putting in. I'm looking for the basics such as a VPN connection that will stay up longer than 5 minutes. Why doesn't it reconnect when it fails?
Yes we talked to Apple support and we couldn't get a resolution.
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And my 486 doesn't run Windows 7. As operating systems change, so do their system requirements.
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So What - Fixed (Score:2)
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This is not true. The warranty on the camaro for anything GM could not prove the chip did stays in place. This is a law that needs to apply to more than just cars.
I say this as someone who voided the warranty on his droid by flashing it.
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the problem is that if you could prove what the mod could do, you could also prove software to be bug free... and sadly thats simply not really possible... although frankly I'm inclined to believe that you shouldn't be able to do anything from software alone that should "brick the device" to the point where they couldn't restore it... Sorta like how your warranty on a desktop or a laptop isn't contingent upon you leaving windows installed on it... or even a macbook where you are free to remove OS X and inst
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I also found the comments about rules and filtering a bit odd, considering the iPhone uses IMAP for mail accounts if it's available. The filtering, and rules would be handled server side, not on the client software.
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Dunno about flamebait, but it sure is dumb. iOS 4's multitasking uses a pre-emptive scheduler (as it has since iPhone OS 1.0).
Talking about cooperative multitasking this way makes it pretty clear that you don't know what it means.
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Actually cooperative multitasking still has it's niche, and is still used by plenty of modern equipment; It is used heavily by DSPs and deeply embedded real time systems.
although, something like the iPhone probably should jettison it; it's treading dangerously close to a general-purpose computer, and it's environment isn't as tightly controlled as the real-time systems i mentioned earlier.
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Have you seen the stuff in the app store? They're not wrong.
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So you're saying that Android treats you that way too, since they are doing it exactly the same way as Android phones.
Don't let that get in the way of a good frothing Apple bash though.
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I've been using the HTC Desire for just about a month now and I can tell you that it's incredibly simple to use and the UI is fantastic (HTC's Sense UI is really nice, adding widgets and shortcuts to customise my various home screens). My GF is not technical at all, she is an iPhone user and she has no problems using my HTC, while I like the fact that I can dig deeper and do some more advanced stuff when I need to (and so far I've not done too much besides replace the standard input method with Swype, switc
Was the last time you checked in 2007? (Score:3, Informative)
You've been able to develop and push your own custom enterprise apps without apple store restrictions for years.