As it should be...Apple's iWork never really took off for real world application. Although Pages is nice for personal stuff and Keynote blows Powerpoint out of the water.
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Apple and IBM Introduce Ten Business-Focused 'IBM MobileFirst' iOS Apps
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As it should be...Apple's iWork never really took off for real world application. Although Pages is nice for personal stuff and Keynote blows Powerpoint out of the water.
Nokia on the consumer segment and Apple may follow (like Microsoft) the same if they don't understand this well! It is a cycle anyways!
Macs are already creeping slowly into my company, but I hope this accelerates it! These Dells they make people use are just gross.
This is great news, I'm not sure if I will use these apps yet, but its nice to see that we have more options. 
Generally agree with the sentiment, but as far as Mobile Device Management goes, there are third party options that resolve this. For example we use Good. I creates a container within the iphone that can be completely managed. Eliminates the need to manage the devise other than the container. As the name goes its good. It just not great.
Are you being facetious? Blackberry/BES has ceased being a serious competitor to Apple in enterprise for quite some time now.
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?
Latter-day Apple is adept at walking and chewing gum at the same time. They'll do well in both markets. Similarly, they do well as a cell phone manufacturer, media distributor, retailer, computer manufacturer, etc etc. Why doubt that they can find a way to succeed in consumer and enterprise computing markets, especially with as established a partner as IBM?
As to "what happened to Blackberry," it's pretty simple: they were blind to the disruption of their market that the iPhone represented. Dismissive, even. They are paying for that now.
In a way, Blackberry vs. iPhone is a great example of why "consumer" vs. "enterprise" is a false divide.
Keep in mind that Apple's way is to find something that sucks and upend it. If anything in computing is ripe for an Apple-class solution, it's the whole BYOD mess. That's what this is all about.
The alliance between Apple and IBM is one of the more momentous things to come of Apple in the past five years, and it has Tim Cook's fingerprints all over it. Small wonder, seeing as he's an ex-IBMer himself. I expect great things from this collaboration from both companies.
Not 3x3 and not 10"...you should be embarrassed.
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This notion that everything runs in cycles is exactly why so many don't really understand any of the technology industries. The only cycle is disruption...everything after that depends on how closely executives listen to those people trained that everything runs in a cycle - which then dooms them to follow that cycle downward.
Well, they're off to a roaring start. The iOS link IBM has on its site is broken:
http://www.ibm.com/mobilefirst/us/en/mobilefirst-for-ios-solutions.html
http://www.ibm.com/mobilefirst/us/en/mobilefirst-for-ios-solutions.html
i actually started to email them about it and they REQUIRE your phone number to contact them. smh...
good luck, IBM.
Wow someone who understands the concept of Disruptive Technology, you are exactly right there are no cycles, only disruption...
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?
I don't think you'll find too many people bemoaning the reinvigorated interest in enterprise and "professional" users of any type. If they start to re-cater to the pros in the way that many here imagined they did (whether or not it was quite a rosy as it appeared), you'll have many an exultation.
The enterprise market is overrated, in that it requires a huge amount of pre and post-sales support to address. For those that can do it, good for them.
The problem with the enterprise market is that everything only needs to be "good enough." Most UIs suck, most applications are hard to use. If IBM and Apple can bring good, easy to use apps at a reasonable cost (enterprise-reasonable), they'll make a killing.
People think they need desktop computers because their UIs suck. If you can make their experience push-button, they'll be happy to leave their PC behind.
That's what this first batch of stuff shows, hopefully.
The problem with the enterprise market is that everything only needs to be "good enough." Most UIs suck, most applications are hard to use. If IBM and Apple can bring good, easy to use apps at a reasonable cost (enterprise-reasonable), they'll make a killing.
People think they need desktop computers because their UIs suck. If you can make their experience push-button, they'll be happy to leave their PC behind.
That's what this first batch of stuff shows, hopefully.
The company I work for in moving heavily into Salesforce, including using custom iOS apps.
I'm really excited about this, because I know very little about Salesforce, and Apex. This means I can retire, as I won't be needed as much.
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?
Apple has the ability to do well at both, especially since the lines are increasingly blurred.
I'm not sure they were complacent. I think they felt they were pursuing a good strategy. They identified customers and tried to serve them. Turns out they were wrong.
Exactly. BB's strategy was pretty simple: the IT managed phone that carriers loved. Apple changed the game. The iPhone was a compelling device, and the upper management used it like crazy. IT couldn't do their "unsupported device" song-and-dance when the C-level dudes said "I want to use this, make it work."
That was an accident on Apple's part, I'm sure.
What's amusing is that the iPhone probably strengthened Microsoft's position as the mail/calendar/directory provider, since it was (and still is) a better solution than the sort of disparate pieces of technology that you need to replace it.
I'm curious, are they moving away from an existing CRM/SFA solution or is it their first take on CRM/SFA?