Apr 29
This week Stu, Chris, Billy and Jack hop onto TalkShoe to talk about all the latest Mac, iPhone and Apple News. We’d like to thank HDSlayer (Jack) for coming and joining us on the phones!
Hope you enjoy the episode
Show Notes & Links
- New iMac specs due next week - story from Engadget
- Apple updates Bootcamp to 2.1
- Psystar offers video of operations
- Apple says 20,000 iPhone developers to date
- Sun still want Java on the iPhone
- 3G iPhone to have GPS and be a thicker design?
- Nike + Apple + Leeds Students
- Apple to stop ‘grey’ UK eStores from selling iPods?
- Apple’s Q2 Results
April 29th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Just Listened to your podcast and really enjoyed it, thanks. Just thought I’d mention Blackberry data plans are circa £20 for Corporates and nowhere £60! As regards iPhones on MS Exchange bear in mind mail admins may have to enable a ’service’ at the Exchange end, and chances are many won’t if they already have a BES (the Blackberry Enterprise Server bolt on to Exchange) as it’l be something else to go wrong.
Also, Blackberry is a VERY mature and established product which has a heck of lead, not unlike the old VHS verses Beta story, Vodafone Corporate and 02 have invested millions in Blackberry support depts so there is already a very powerful support infrastructure in place that won’t go away any day soon. Blackberries typically have 3-5 day battery life where as I’d be lucky to get day out of my own iPhone if I’m using data, not to mention how much more robust most Blackberries are .
Personally I doubt RIM are too worried, most business users are already locked into Blackberry, not unlike the Windows verse Linux choice in commercial environment, at the end of the day it often comes down to support availability and costs rather than bells and whistles. The decision will be taken by IT Directors looking to control supports costs, not some Sales Johny who fancies a new gadget!
Something else I can’t understand is why people rattle on about 3G, we have various 3G devices and they tend to EAT batteries not mention it’s pretty flakey on the move! Edge is fine for email and web browsing, in fact to be honest GPRS is fine for email, look at Blackerry’s absurd success, I don’t know what percentage of the corporate mobile device they have but I’ll bet it’s around 70-80%.
What would be far more interesting is to see RIM produce a Blackberry Client like they did for the P900 and some of the Nokias, now that WOULD be a serious jaw dropper……
April 30th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Phil,
Thanks for the great comment, glad you enjoyed the show and hope you will continue to enjoy what we’re doing with BUMP and our new project International Mac Podcast (www.impodcast.tv)
I really get what you’re saying about the Blackberry, yeah I got the data plan prices wrong - oops! I think the main thing that would make the iPhone come out on top is a company that has Windows Mobile deployed, which uses ActiveSync already, they would have to do very little to switch to the iPhone.
One thing I’ve noticed about the Blackberry (my father has one for work) is that it’s still a very business based mobile OS, whereas the iPhone OS is, in my opinion at least, much more user friendly.
We will see what happens, I could see RIM developing a BlackBerry client for the iPhone, maybe?
Take care
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Hay Thanks For Metioning Me
HD Out