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Should Your IT Department Support the IPhone

Posted by tom.altman on January 25th, 2010
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Here is a post I found last week but didn’t get to it until this morning…this is a great post.  It is from cio.com – “Should Your IT Department Support the IPhone”

When the iPhone was first launched in June 2007, it was generally panned by IT managers and systems administrators. It didn’t support any encryption of user data, could not have any enforced security policies and offered no way to remotely wipe data if it were lost or stolen. At the time, a lot of companies weren’t prepared to accept those security gaps. Perhaps more importantly, the iPhone didn’t yet support any third-party applications or interact with most office suites.

Another good point is budgets.  At my company many of the perks (cell phones, internet service at home and others) were cut out of the budget the last few years.  This meant IT geeks like myself would have to provide their own phone.  Many went for the iPhone.  Now we’re being asked to “plug in” on our own dime and our own time – but I say too, on my iPhone (or Android).  I’m not planning on giving up my smart phone for a blackberry – no thanks.

It will be itneresting to see how rumors of a new iPhone 4G and new models of Google’s Andriod will affect these interesting times for IT and support of personal equipment.

When the iPhone was first launched in June 2007, it was generally panned by IT managers and systems administrators. It didn’t support any encryption of user data, could not have any enforced security policies and offered no way to remotely wipe data if it were lost or stolen. At the time, a lot of companies weren’t prepared to accept those security gaps. Perhaps more importantly, the iPhone didn’t yet support any third-party applications or interact with most office suites.

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Apps trump hardware – by Fred Wilson

Posted by tom.altman on January 14th, 2010
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Fred Wilson is  a cool VC in New York who I have been following and enjoying his comments and stories.  This is a great one – he basically explains how he solves his remotes issues with a iPhone Touch.

Of course, for this to work you’ll need to have a $200 iTouch handy. But honestly, I could have spent $200 on the iTouch and added $2 for the Air Mouse and it would not have been much more than what I spent on the keyboard and mouse.

Here’s a link to the post.

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iPhone apps go HTML5?

Posted by tom.altman on December 18th, 2009
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There are some good points here:

Lately I’ve noticed that some developers are avoiding building apps and, instead, are building custom web pages that are designed specifically for the iPhone.

And in a post I did back in November.

Also – these are cross-platform.  Which will definitely come into play as more players enter the game.

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Posted by tom.altman on December 7th, 2009

Mobile is the new hot hot hot.  Everyone is looking at your site on a handheld of some sort.

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At WPtap, we offer comprehensive mobile theme solutions for your WordPress website. Tailored to iPhone’s design specs and Safari browser, WPtap makes your WordPress website looks amazing on an iPhone and loads lightening fast, all accomplished without interfering with your regular theme for PC.

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iPhone webapps to kick the AppStore habit

Posted by tom.altman on November 30th, 2009
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I love my iPhone.  I hate the AppStore.

I have not built my own iPhone app – partially because I haven’t found something I couldn;t already buy.  But partly because it seems complicated.  That’s probably why I don’t build desktop apps.  I came across a post by John Gruber called “iPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store” whih points to an article by Peter-Paul Koch “Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid.” and they reaffirmed what I was thinking.

from Peter-Paul
“The fundamental problem on the iPhone is not Apple’s App Store approval policies, but the iPhone developers’ arrogant disdain for Web technologies.”

“Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. Their problems with the App Store approval process are entirely their own fault and they deserve no commiseration.”

Yea.  This is the exact arugment I’ve been having the desktop developers for 10 years – why hadn’t I connected the dots.

Although Peter-Paul has been “put in his place” and written a rebuttal – I think the issues will also be “fixed” with the competition with Android.

So – if you’re so inclined to write the iPhone app:

But the best proof is what I pointed out above: Apple itself created almost no iPhone web apps. Successful iPhone developers don’t just want to write software that works on the iPhone. They want to write software for the iPhone that’s just as good as Apple’s. Today that means using Cocoa Touch and the native SDK.

When you write a Cocoa Touch app for the iPhone, you’re not starting from scratch. You’re starting with the Cocoa Touch framework. As Faruk Ateş astutely points out in his response to Koch, to discount the framework is to discount everything that sets the iPhone apart as a development platform. Not only are native iPhone apps faster and more capable than their web-app equivalents, but they’re easier to write.

Nothing will be solved today – but as Android continues to spread in it’s open and loving ways…we’re be waiting with our web code ready to spring into action.

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The Best Camera Is The One You Have With You: The Art of iPhoneography – MultimediaShooter

Posted by tom.altman on November 19th, 2009

This is a cool little post – and I can tell you, since my iPhone, I have taken more photos and videos than ever.

The Best Camera Is The One You Have With You

The Best Camera Is The One You Have With You: The Art of iPhoneography – MultimediaShooter.

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Woah – real time video overlay

Posted by tom.altman on July 7th, 2009

How cool is this – realtime video overlay/GPS-ish mashup.  This is very cool.  (Only for the iPhone 3GS)

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Want an iPhone 3G S? Already have an iPhone 3G? Be prepared to pay $700 to upgrade [Updated]

Posted by tom.altman on June 11th, 2009

Want an iPhone 3G S? Already have an iPhone 3G? Be prepared to pay $700 to upgrade [Updated].

OUCH!

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AT&T – big, bad and high tech

Posted by tom.altman on May 10th, 2009
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After reading my CEO’s blog today – it made me think about my “call” with AT&T on Saturday.  I’ve recently signed up for an iPhone from AT&T.

Onto the story – I took a motorcycle ride on Saturday to meet a friend’s son for lunch.  When we arrived at the restaurant, I checked the and had two voice messages.  One was a friend and the other was AT&T.  I had not set-up my payments on my online billpay yet, so I had not made a payment.  I was basically behind.  Not intentionally – but I really just not gotten around to it.

So I called the 800 number and 2:31 (two minutes – thirty second later, I checked) I was done.  I had made a bank transfer of funds.  Now some will get a bit freaked out – but I’m saying thank you.

Firstly – you can take the iPhone when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.  The iPhone is awesome.  Seriously – 10x better than any other phone I’ve used.  Secondly – 2:31 seconds for me to pay my bill – COME ON!

Now – what does that have to do with newspapers and media?  Well – it goes back to what Chuck said in the blog post.

I do not believe that human nature is changing. However, we are learning new behaviors, using new tools.

Exactly.  I felt too busy to pay the phone bill.  I could have, but just chose not to.  But AT&T was cool with that and changed their behavior to adapt to my crappy ways.

So – what have we (as media companies) done to change what we do for people?  Do we even know who the people are?  What they do? What they want?  We have no clue what our people want or desire.

Just think what we could do if we knew the audience.  We have tens of sites, if we had all that data – plus the TV station, plus the newspaper and it was all available.  We could really know who they are and what they do and why they do what they do and that they may want you to let them pay the bill over a text message.

That would be good…but we don’t.  And we need to figure that out too.

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The State of the Smartphone: iPhone is Way, Way Ahead – ReadWriteWeb

Posted by tom.altman on April 20th, 2009

The State of the Smartphone: iPhone is Way, Way Ahead – ReadWriteWeb.

I would have probably argued with this article not that long ago.  I made a huge mistake and bought a touch about 1.5 months ago.

I was hooked and grabbed the iPhone shortly after – and there is no lookingback.

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