I didn’t think I’d ever use the words “lazysphere” and “gigaom” in the same sentence but thanks to a lazy journo at webworkderdaily who recycles the “Why corporate IT doesn’t want the iPhone” complaint, I am forced to.
I’ve refuted these points before. Shame on you, Gigaom!
A blatant cut and paste job with virtually no content contributed by the writer. And one that has been refuted may times not just by me but by a lot of people. The single biggest reason to maintain the iPhone in a corporate environment in my opinion is that it gives you a great reason to get rid of RIM. I’ve spent time this week and again last month troubleshooting problems with RIM’s software “not deleting messages properly” which causes a mailbox to get corrupted.
The fix, as passed on from Vodafone: Stop using our supplied Blackberry devices.
Fantastic.
Now tell me why corporate IT should pay for RIM services on top of their Blackberry devices for a service that doesn’t work properly when you can go with a standard IMAP server and any phone with hald a degree of smarts (never mind an iPhone?)
Do you REALLY need PUSH email that much? Can you stand to be without email for 15 minutes? If it’s that urgent why hasn’t your IT department installed an SMS Gateway so you can get instantaneous messaging? If it’s that important why are you relying on methods of delivery that are not guaranteed? You didn’t know that neither email nor SMS offer a “class of service” guarantee? Yes, I’m quite sure. Plus there are interoperable standards for this. Why on earth do we need to use proprietary methods? It’s 2008 for chrissakes. Next you’ll be recommending installing an Exchange server.
The real question you should be asking:
Considering how much I have paid for Exchange Servers, Blackberry devices and RIM’s messaging services, howcome Apple could produce a phone and in 6 months grab 19% of the smartphone market with a device that RIM, Palm and Microsoft are now scrabbling to mimic? What have you been doing with all of my money???