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Apple and IBM Introduce Ten Business-Focused 'IBM MobileFirst' iOS Apps
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If consumer is so good... What happened to Nokia?
Hahahahaha love it.
Gotcha. Love the analogy as well.
Yeah wouldn't mind the Pro gear focusing more on specs. Maxwell nVidia cards please, for the 2015 rMBPs.
Currently using a variety of "best of class" systems that don't play well together.
Oracle ERP is our primary system. That's my area, and it really won't go away soon.
Why? Just for Apple to gain marketshare in the enterprise arena and decide to scale back in the consumer market?
Also, if enterprise is so good... What happened to Blackberry?
Why the wink about Blackberry? They were comatose / so asleep at the switch - they did not keep up with what was going on all around them. A physical keyboard and security were hardly viable barriers to new competition in the "Enterprise" market.
Apple/IBM combination always stirred up my blood. Come on guys, when should I expect the new Powerbook (as for now, it would bear the name of "PowerBook 8")?
Moreover, it's a partnership. IBM sell into the enterprise space, Apple provide the hardware. This is the point at which Microsoft should get seriously worried.
Why? IBM software hasn't exactly killed Microsoft in the enterprise. This won't either. And IBM being onboard won't suddenly make the people in charge of the money go away from laptops that cost either the same or less than an iPad without a keyboard.
The bottom line shouldn't always be about money. Obviously it's important, but it's not the most important or only thing.
Yes thanks to that awesome iOS MDM service known as iEnterprise. Blows BES12 out of the water man!
And now did you see this new plane app they just put out? Like OMG how pilots could have ever flown with out, I mean how did they know how much fuel they have? Now they don't have to guesstimate anymore they have an app for that while they are flying in their cockpits.
Also, if enterprise is so good... What happened to Blackberry?
Blackberry had other issues - they lost their way.
I know Siebel, it used to be the leader in crm market, dropped to number 3 after oracle bought Siebel. Gotta tell you, salesforce marketing is incredible, their system is great but is incredibly expensive. They are starting to show their age, just like Siebel did in 2002-2003.
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If your mobility device embarrasses you perhaps you should look at moving to a different platform. PM me and I'll make you an offer on that iPad Air 2...
Blackberry didn't really "lose their way." They never "found their way."
The idea that BB was some visionary company that just lost their way is a fallacy. They had one killer product: Secure, push email. They were mediocre, at best in every other area of their business. Their hardware was meh. The PIM functionality was pretty bad, compared to others in the industry. Palm was a much, much better PIM platform. But they could never get their act together on push email.
Once the iPhone came to market, and offered reliable, secure enterprise push email that didn't require a massive reinvestment in architecture for businesses, on top of a platform that was much more user friendly, BB was trailing from the front.
When BB finally understood that their golden goose (the BES/BIS infrastructure) was no longer impervious to competition they started working hard to try to save their business by trying to build more consumer friendly devices. But by then they were being totally outclassed by Apple, and some Android handset makers.
Four or five years after Apple had introduced the iPhone RIM/BB was still trying to get people to buy into two-inch screens, with WAP browsers.
The BES 10 environment is not a bad one, and some of their newer hardware is decent. Not as good as the iPhone, IMO. But better than most Android phones. But by the time BB came out with BES 10 and hardware that could compete, most enterprises had moved on. Although they were offering low cost upgrades to BES 10 for customers on the BES 7 system, companies decided that they didn't want to invest the time and effort to implement and maintain a dying technology. If BB had been able to offer BES 10 in the cloud on day one they might have slowed some of the bleeding.
If your mobility device embarrasses you perhaps you should look at moving to a different platform. PM me and I'll make you an offer on that iPad Air 2...
I love the iPad Air 2, it's easily may favorite Apple device, you can see me other devices in my signature. Just frustrating how apple does zero to optimize iOS for the iPad
If it's to be mobile first, then OS X: I hope Apple can demonstrate more sense than was demonstrated with Yosemite.