The next evolutionary step of the mobile device

iPhone, step aside, there is a new device in town.

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Enjoy! dv

Doom and Gloom for Windows?

Ran across this article today about the future of Microsoft. Gartner (a pretty respected company that analyses and reports on trends in IT) is claiming that Microsoft "faces serious competition that will make Windows moot unless the software developer acts". Interesting thing though. Linux doesn't seem to be picking up steam at the desktop level and, for a business, the Mac (although a beautiful work of art) is generally more expensive and incompatible with most client/server business software. So, who is the competition? The article brings up a good point in that there is not any competition in the enterprise space except for themselves (Microsoft). I would say that the SaaS space is where the competition is ultimately going to come from. When everything (or almost everything) becomes browser based, it won't matter what desktop OS you have, it just has to be compatible with the applications you are trying to run from wherever they may be on whatever you may have in your hand at the time (pc, phone, etc..).

Until later - Enjoy!

iPhone going corporate (or not?)

A friend sent me this article today about AT&T announcing a 'corporate' plan for the iPhone. Great title, but alas it is all smoke and mirrors. Apparently they have come up with a corporate pricing model and that makes it a 'corporate' ready device. Uhmm, yeah, about that... Sorry, but you can't get your email (unless your workplace has low security standards), can't connect with an exchange server for calendaring, tasks, notes, etc. (I mean without having to hook the device up to your computer - wasn't I doing that with my palm pilot back in the 90's?). Unfortunately, it isn't there yet and based on the 'big' (read - disappointing) Apple announcements last week, we may have to wait a little while longer for it to truly be corporate ready. The other hurdle they have to overcome will be the fact that it is solely available on AT&T. Is it just me, or does this type of proprietary shenanigans annoy anyone else? Everyone always beating up Microsoft for their supposed market domination, but then a company like Apple comes out and you have to run it on their hardware, over their network and people don't mind not having choices. Strange....

Anyway - enough for now - Peace.....