Mr Johnson is similarly ignorant of modern email systems, by suggesting that the undocumented, proprietary (ActiveSync) Exchange protocol is inherently more secure than standards-based IMAP email systems. This is certainly NOT the case. Modern IMAP and POP servers are configurable for use over SSL tunnels (GMail, for example, uses POP over SSL; this is more secure than Exchange by default.) SOX compliance does not prohibit IMAP access; SOX could be met simply by putting IMAP access behind the firewall (requiring a VPN tunnel) or making it IMAP+SSL. And yes, the iPhone speaks IMAP+SSL and POP+SSL (as well as SMTP+SSL so that your *outgoing* messages are secure, too).

I’m not planning on buying an iPhone (it doesn’t have a feature that I need in a phone, so this may be a temporary rejection) when it becomes available in Canada (where I now reside), but the reasons provided are, by and large, bogus and ill-informed.

Otherwise, I’ve bought some songs from Yahoo! and Walmart to burn for my kids and my wife has taken it upon herself to fill-out our physical CD collection. As for myself, I generally turn-on the local NPR affiliate or Clear Channel’s “Smooth Jazz” in the car and when I’m at home, I generally listen to theclassicalstation[dot]org, something from my “dial” which I’ve built from the site that I’ve recoded my name to link, or I used to keep Pipeline in a corner of the screen before they shutdown.

I guess when you get old and live in a place without good radio, your musical choices could easily become a source for derision.

as for everyone else, i just remembered an article in the WSJ published on B1 june 19th: “Companies Hang Up on Apple’s iPhone” that is worth a read for those interested in this thread.

the deal is that if you can pull off a patch to get iPhones onto your blackberry, microsoft or motorola messaging systems, doing so will put another hole in the system that hackers can try to exploit. if you are a publicly traded company and your mail systems fall under the draconian sarbanes oxley controls, it is not worth the extreme angst to even try it. most exchange admins turned off automatic forwarding and open relays long ago to thwart spammers. iPhones can connect via IMAP protocol, which is just about as bad as POP.

tele - Latin for “far off” + phone - Latin for “sound”

That is so 1885.

I propose combining mundi, Latin for “world, or mankind,” with nectare, Latin for “to bind together, to connect.”

Mundinectare, as in…

“I really like your mundinectare ringtone!”

“Why thank you! I was leaning toward La Cucaracha but decided to go with Dixie as my mundinectare ringtone.”

“Can you read the Chron on your mundinectare?”

“My mundinectare will actually read the Chron outloud, using the Gilbert Gottfried voicebot!”

“If you hooked a lanyard to your mundinectare and hung it around your neck, would you call it a monkey necktie?”

“yes”

I’m sorry, back to work.

http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/14/the-real-cost-of-an-iphone-1300-2000-in-year-one/

i pay for blackberries because our employees need to be there when we need them and the expense is well worth it. that same expense for entertainment and communications on a personal level is pushing it.

@Brock: i would argue that apple has stayed alive for years by focusing on one particular niche of the enterprise: designers. macs dominate the professional creative world.

2) It’s a shallow analysis that considers the enterprise customer the most important customer. When has Apple ever focused substantial marketing and product development on the enterprise?

3) Much of the article focuses on product naming. Who cares? You like KRZR or RZR or LG 2000399 better? Who care? The a name allows you to instantly understand what it is and why you want it.