FFS, who rattled the fanbois cages?
Please, can all the paranoid fanbois get off defcon1 and realise that Gartner are not calling their holyphone a piece of junk, they are just pointing out that it is not quite ready for enterprise big time. Blackberry was designed as an enterprise solution and has evolved over time into a very secure system, those are just basic facts. Win Mobile devices like the HTCs or iPAQs have long targeted the Blackberry and have also evolved over time from joke to reasonable enterprise solution. The iBone is still largely at the stage of bling toy, I'm sure given time and attention Apple will close the gap, but does it matter? If you are not using it in an enterprise setting then it will probably do what you want very well, just don't expect any professional setting to be overjoyed if you ask to use it at work.
For a start, the main hostility in many workplaces to iBones comes from the iPlod, where many moronic users would try and install iTunes on their work desktops and trying to download all day, using up company bandwidth and company resources for purposes definately not intended by the owners. I have seen workers genuinely confused as to why they were being fired after having been warned three times that doing so was against their contract terms. They just don't seem to understand that the company is not interested in underwriting their non-work activities which takes them away from the tasks the company is paying them to do.
We have decided not to add the iBone to our list of company-approved phones, and are looking at ways of detecting the Apple MAC address range and rejecting them for our comapny WiFi access points. If Apple make a more secure version which meets out criteria we'd allow it, though we'll probably keep on blocking iTunes. This is not because we hate Apple, it's a business decision. No need for fanboi rage, thanks.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
