New Print Ad Touts iPhone's Business Savvy

[ModerateFKR]

And a poor job at it as well, yeah.
Perspective of 3 percent, but all the text has 0 percent perspective.

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What on earth are you talking about?

It's clearly a shot taken using a small lens of a tabloid print page. The photo of the iPhone is at an angle - on the page! It and the text are printed as you'd expect it to be.

 

[cozmot]

...but mostly they care about reliability, longterm planning, and trustworthy communication. Not really Apple's strengths.

I have no idea what that means.

 

[cozmot]

I don't think I would use an iphone for any important business stuff... If my phone (and the data on it) is literally dependent on the one computer that it's effectively tethered too... no thanks. This should get better with icloud and ios 5 I suppose. But I can't have a device that is arbitrarily locked down to one computer. If that computer dies... then I can't sync anymore, basically. Having artificial constraints and liabilities on data is not acceptable, especially for business needs where my data is that much more important.

Your iPhone is dependent on one computer for one thing: updates. I use my iPhone for business and I get my email on it directly from my email providers, I have all of the documents I need on it (ReaddleDocs) or on the cloud (DropBox). When I'm not on a WiFi network I know I can trust, I use a VPN (WiTopia). I have all of my passwords securely stored (1Password) and if I need to get to that dreaded "one computer" remotely, I can do so easily (LogMeIn Ignition). I can even sign documents digitally and send documents to others to sign digitally (DocuSign), and I can make cheap international calls (Skype).

Meanwhile, my contacts and calendar sync (MobileMe, and it's going to get better) and I have a phone on top of all of that. If my computer dies, as all computers do at some time, or I replace it, I have everything backed up to an external drive, and in case something happens to that, I have my personal settings and email backed up to iDisk and all of my documents backed up to Amazon's S3 servers.

So what's going to change? You'll be able to do updates without tethering it to that one computer. A nice convenience that I look forward to, but hardly game changing. With a better cloud with lots of free storage thrown in, my iPhone -- already a great and essential business tool -- will become a little bit better.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

As a smartphone administrator for my place of business the iPhone is the SIMPLEST smartphone to get connected to an exchange server with the android trailing behind it by a hair and about neck and neck with Windows7 Phones. The phones I see the most problems with are without a doubt Blackberry phones. Constantly jumping on and off the bes, having synchronization problems, etc etc etc.

I'm glad you are able to get it working. My issue seems to be with IIS. I get "failed to read IISwebs table -2147024891" and "Failed to find web root" errors and the ActiveSync that I thought installed fails to install. I haven't been able to find a solution to the issue either. It appears to involve the Default Website in IIS but that's as far as I have been able to get. So no joy in it for me, yet...