Posts by Frank N. Stein

I'd like to see Blackberry claw it's way back. There are too many Enterprise MDM users stuck on the iPhone 4S and iPads. It's time for a different choice. BB needs to develop a stronger partnership with AirWatch, to insure that their products and services are compatible and offer remote control options that the other platforms don't offer.

Let's see if losses widen or lessen over the next three quarters.

So much for all of the rumors and such about the S5. Won't be till the end of the year that we see what the Note 4 will be like. THAT is the one I'm waiting to hear about.

I am waiting for someone to root an XL and tell us what version of Cyanogenmod will be running on it. It was complete lunacy for Nokia to fork Android and replace Google's services on it in favor of Nokia or Microsoft services. Any developers rushing to port their apps to NokiaDroid?

It's hard to argue with success, regardless of personal agreement or lack thereof, when it comes to products that Ive has designed for Apple. He worked his way up head of both hardware and software design, and millions of customers buy products that he's had a hand in designing.

Simon, you're my hero. You have no idea (or, perhaps, you do) how much the users in your blogs sound like the real users that we face out here in the wild, particularly when it comes to Enterprise MDM Helpdesk. It's amazing to see how either the users, their PC Support Group, and/or the domain admins can screw things up so badly. And it's even more frightening how many executives who lack technical skill to operate even iOS devices, will put their assistant up to calling us when technical support is needed. Of course, she's often less skilled than her boss. These people find very interesting ways to screw up easy to use technology and say things like, "My iPad doesn't work", after which, we naturally have to ask what specifically isn't working on their iPad. Naturally, that infuriates them and rather than own up to having weak communication skills, they claim that we just "don't understand" what they are saying. HA!!! Then of course, there are the liars who claim that an icon somehow just vanished from their home screen, but probing questions always find what they did to cause that nonsense. My personal favorites are the ones who claim something is wrong with their iPhone 4S so that we'll RMA it, but naturally, they ask if they can get an upgrade to an iPhone 5 and are disappointed to learn that they will receive an iPhone 4S, just like what they had previously. These geniuses will brake them once a week, for weeks on end, thinking frequent failures will result in an upgrade to an iPhone 5? No can do on that, sir/madame. You get like for like, no matter how many times you brake it, unless you'd prefer to pay the $750 full price for an iPhone 5. That suddenly reduces the number of times they brake their iPhone 4S. :-D

Facebook stock trending downward after this Whatsapp purchase news? I'm not paying any "nominal fee" for a chat service that I've been using for free, any more than I'd pay Facebook to promote my posts.

Really, Samsung? It's highly unlikely that Dyson's filing against you "damaged your reputation" as a vacuum cleaner manufacturer. Has anyone here ever seen a Samsung Vacuum cleaner? Perhaps in Korea. Not in the USA, for sure. Not to worry, Sammy. Apple will sue you over the Galaxy S5.

It's not a good idea for anyone located anywhere to publicly refer to themselves in Social Media, as a "hacker". But a "transgender hacker"? What has the world come to?

Glad I'm not the only one dealing with "the crazy" in these women. LOL!!!

Why? Why bog an iPhone down with a stuttering, stumbling Android OS? If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

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What about pumped up roid monsters who are on PEDs? Won't those PED's widen their heads a bit?

Sounds like sour grapes from some hater who isn't down with Nadella being CEO. Too bad. Get over it.

Dell denies impending culling. Anyone surprised? Of course, they don't want their staff to know the actual sack numbers. Of course, they'll deny it till it's done. But whether it's 15,000 or 10,000, they're still people, and it's just about guaranteed that a majority of those sacks won't be in upper management. Want to save some real money? Cull management. Save them more money than sacking the bottom half.

Glad I abandoned Android and Facebook for Android. I didn't add my phone number to my FB account and don't require two step authentication. These blokes can't be trusted with personal info.

Blackberry has a chance to regain their footing in the Enterprise. Most of the customers that we support are using iPhone 4S and Android Phones that are 3 years old. Windows Phone has very little presence in AirWatch MDM deployments, at the moment. As someone else noted, the Z30 is definitely looking good.

Apple payment system? Bring it!! It has to be better than the craptastic Paypal. I hope it succeeds wildly and buries PayPal.

"Our strategy is a multi-year initiative"- So, Dell is planning a multi- year employee sacking initiative. Right-Oh!!

Maybe some of those "tough decisions" could "affect" upper management personnel and help the company to save "resources" that are often squandered are useless management personnel?

Whether it was some sort of ill conceived practical joke or these two suspects lack the balance of sanity, Their unlikely to repeat this action in the future.

Hmmm...

Interesting. But this seems more aimed at software developers who Microsoft needs in order to fill the Windows App Store, rather than a move aimed at consumer fanbois/fangirls. What consumer customer needs to have 81 Windows devices? That's a business customer scenario. But I give credit to Microsoft for allowing a customer to have 81 devices under one user ID. That encourages adoption of more devices and that is certainly good for Microsoft.

Sales and marketing is only of real value if you're selling something that people are buying. It's still possible that other platform owners may be interested in hiring these people, particularly those that seek to gain ground in the enterprise mobile device management market.

It doesn't matter what's in the Surface Tablets if they screw up the price point. That's the primary reason why they didn't sell. No one is willing to over pay for a Microsoft Surface Tablets. By pricing them above Apple iPads, this guaranteed no one would buy them. Even without a bluetooth keyboard, the iPad mini sells. Surface needs to be priced lower than Apple in order to even attract interest, much less sell in any quantities. Why do you think Microsoft finally started ad campaigns comparing the price of Acer Windows 8 Tablets to iPad minis? They need to lower the price of the Surface from the start, or they will not sell.

Price it right or it won't sell

Hopefully, Microsoft finally learned the pricing lesson. If they don't price it right, it will not sell. That's a simply fact that's already been proven.

Maybe Apple won't announce the 5C on Tuesday at the Apple Campus event. Perhaps it will be launched at the Being event.

Glad I didn't accept that Dell tech support job now. It wouldn't have lasted long.

Really?

REALLY??

Sure that this isn't just some sort of media stunt to inspire some odd form of sympathy? The dude is a man, so it's pretty stupid to refer to him as a "She" or "Her", regardless of him losing his mind after losing his freedom and deciding he wants to be a "she". This isn't going to take the focus off him passing classified documents to a third party, breaking the law, and being convicted for it. And really, you're going to get the military to pay for hormone therapy after they've de-ranked you and made you forfeit your pay? That amounts to THE PUBLIC paying for your hormone therapy with tax dollars, through the military. Personally, I don't think the public should have to pay for some convicted felon's hormone therapy because he's "changed his mind" about what gender he wants to be. You're still going to a man's prison. What do you think is going to happen to you there, whether you get hormone therapy or not??

Really??

A thousand more Bradly Mannings? I think not. Who is going to want to risk being charged and convicted for 135 years with espianage to be a Whistleblower now? At least not while remaining identifiable. Anonymously? Perhaps.

Privacy?

Get over it. Your life is an open book. Google, MS, AOL, Yahoo, et al can all read and analyse your e-mail, cloud storage, phone, PC, tablet, and a$$ and you can't do a dam thing about it. So just swallow before the next one shoves it on your mouth and get use to it.

Really?

Put another way, Executives at Cisco want to continue making their fat salaries. The only way to insure that happens is to swing the axe to 4,000 staffers to insure that they take the financial hit, rather than the execs. Welcome to Gordon Gecko's philosophy. GREED IS GOOD!!