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Apple and IBM Team Up For Major Enterprise Mobility Partnership

This should be a rather interesting partnership if its targeting the corporate world. Then again, the two of them have been in bed together before and that fell apart rather quickly.

From my POV, I would love to see facets of databases, Mainframe, email services enjoy what each has to offer as well as some security features.
 
Having worked in state/federal government enterprise IT as well as private companies contracting work from the state this is a HUGE move for Apple.

IBM is EVERYWHERE in state government with billions of dollars in secured multi-year deals. This will allow Apple products to flow through already established channels that don't need any further approvals for spending.
 
outback1313 said:
I would like Apple take on a partnership with Microsoft to take on Google and make them irreverent.

Yesterday I started using Bing instead of Google and I like it a lot. And I changed my e-mail from Gmail to Outlook.com. Not as good, but it get's the job done and I don't have to worry about Google having all my info.

Good bye Google!
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Going from Google to Bing is like going from Google to a slightly lesser Google. If you want to make a change that brings you privacy I recommend you switch from Bing to DuckDuckGo. That way you don't need to worry about Microsoft having all your info as well.
 
It's a great move for both companies. Apple get in to enterprise, IBM strengthen their reach into consumer software.

Corporations and employees win, and consumers potentially get better more powerful email and cloud services (amongst other benefits) across the board.

If you can't see the potential for Apple customers, you've got to be fairly oblivious to how things work in technology.
 
This is a very clever move.

iOS is making slow but good progress into the enterprise sector but its a real beast to crack.
IBM has huge connections all over the enterprise market. If IBM work with Apple to get iOS up to scratch for IBM it will be acceptable to 95% of other enterprises out there.

I think there is also the branding side which is not to be ignored. The fact is many people don't know who IBM are (proven by so many comments on this forum) Get rid of IBM and the world would grid to a halt while all the back end systems are updated to other software
 
apolloa said:
This story, of course, makes us workers all wish that one day, perhaps, we will ALL be using OSX products...

Have to say that as the current MS Office I have at work, on my Windows 7 terminal, I HATE the layout of the menus etc.. And it's locked down so you can't change it, not that I think you can change the menus layouts?

Anyway.. one day...
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Late quote I know but sad to say you can break Mac OSX the same way. Worked at a place where the central IT office had locked down OSX so hard it literately broke the Disk Image Mounter. Which caused all kinds of cascading issues all the way through to critical Adobe security updates. Things like Flash and Acrobat Reader were not getting updates because the DMG files used as the updates Adobe pushes couldn't open without Admin level authorization. Every day people were complaining about a pop-up asking for the admin password.

Lesson: You can royally screw up any OS (Mac or otherwise) if you screw it down hard enough.
 
Rogifan said:
Watson isn't innovative? Or is that not considered a product?
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Watson is a pure research project and not a product. IBM has a long history of coming up with great ideas only to license themto other companies while sitting back on royalties. Sometimes they buy the outfit if it bear fruit.
 
This can be great!

This can be a great partnership.

Apple brings its upscale hardware (e.g., iPad) and software (iOS and some apps). IBM brings its Enterprise consulting and services experience, loads of big data analytics and other skills as articulated in the press release(*), software (more apps) and the enterprise contacts.

One would hope IBM puts a spark and inspired user interface on their apps to keep the Apple-y flavor in the apps (that is, anti Lotus Notes in terms of UI). The only way they can fail is if they have Big Boring User Interfaces to excellent underlying software engines that no end user likes to use.

* http://www.apple.com/pr/library/201...nership-to-Transform-Enterprise-Mobility.html

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Disclosure: I own Apple stock and options. In the after hours market both IBM and Apple are up 2%+ and 1.8%+ (4:30AM ET). It would be interesting to see what the wider market things when the market opens.
 
RobertMartens said:
I don't buy that baby name story

His company was called SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center

Stanford Research Institute.

Don't that look a lot like SIRI to you?
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hey I'm just going on what the man himself said. If you want to call him a liar feel free but I'm not joining in.
 
darkslide29 said:
“In ‘84, we were competitors. In 2014, I don’t think you can find two more complementary companies,” said Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook.
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"It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy."
-- Steve Jobs

Guess who he was talking about back then.
 
It takes the best of Apple and the best of IBM and it puts those together


This reminds me of PowerMac G5 promovideo..
 
Winni said:
"It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy."
-- Steve Jobs

Guess who he was talking about back then.
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Those comparisons are kind of ridiculous. At the time, the launch of the IBM PC was a major competitor to the Mac. Then the cloning on general purpose hardware made Microsoft "the navy". Today, 30 years later, the comparison doesn't even make sense any more.
 
attila said:
Apple VS Ye Olde Enemy

Victorious!
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That's like saying Britain's "arch enemy" is France.

LOL

Yes, in older eras, the English and French have been at war for hundreds of years, dating back to late Middle Ages. But the last conflict was around 1815, Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. They have not been "enemies" (a military threat to each other) for nearly 200 years now.

Likewise, it's been many years since Apple and IBM have been direct competitors against each other, in any sort of product.
 
This can be.....

a game changer, if this succeed.....Maybe even mark a new era for Apple in the enterprise. Altough not the same issue and situation, bring to me memories about when the PowerPC consortium come to light, that fostered new generations of Mac hardware, revitalize the company and put some years of life into Apple.....:D

Some goals are best attained based in team efforts. And teams work best when players complement each other. So it is a good day both for Apple and IBM. We will see how good they go. Hope they can hit a blast...!

:):apple:
 
outback1313 said:
IBM was Apple's first enemy.

Then Microsoft was the enemy.

Today Google is the enemy.

Any idea on who their next enemy will be?
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It's a testament to how resilient Apple has been throughout the years. They've lasted this long when analysts kept predicting their demise. Sort of like Castro in Cuba as the face of his enemy (US Presidents) have come and gone. As for the IBM/APPLE partnership it's nothing new but now IBM will provide the apps while Apple provides the hardware.
 
IBM + Apple = Private cloud, private apps, private email, private messaging, private data. An NSA damage limitation exercise.

Since the Snowden revelations, IBM servers (they're already selling off their hardware to Lenovo) are starting to be replaced by Inspur and Huawei in China. Brazil, Russia, Germany will all start to look for their own solutions.

Apple has just been labelled a danger to national security in China. They've just got to stop sending data back to America.
 
JAQ said:
I would pay money to see Bill Gates' face and hear his honest reaction upon hearing this.
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You would be wasting your money!

He might be amused that Apple is finally trying to fix it cloud services, and wondering why its taken them so long.

Apple is not entering Enterprise again, they left that sector long long ago.

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Schizoid said:
They've been working on the Powerbook G5 all this time!
great news!
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Lol...... I wish! ;)
 
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