Mar. 7th, 2008
iPhone and work
Mar. 7th, 2008 07:19 amI got myself an iPhone two months ago and am generally loving it (pretty good iPod, pretty good PDA, nice web browser, great maps, acceptable phone, almost acceptable email, lousy camera). It's not supported at work and the reasons quoted were the lack of Exchange support and the lack of encryption/remote wiping if a phone gets lost.
Given that Exchange at work supports IMAP for all the Unix users (including myself), part of the reasons sounded fishy. But alright - I don't actually want to be tethered to work 24x7, so not having work email on it okay with me. Syncing calendars would have been nice though.
Yesterday's announcements eliminate most of the quoted reasons for not supporting the iPhone. Given our Exchange plant is run by Microsoft fanboyz, I'm pretty sure new reasons will crop up in the next two months why the iPhone won't be supported - so now it'll be up to sufficiently powerful users on the business side (i.e. investment bankers) to make the case. Let's hope they win, as I would like to see a CrackBerry to iPhone shift at work.
Given that Exchange at work supports IMAP for all the Unix users (including myself), part of the reasons sounded fishy. But alright - I don't actually want to be tethered to work 24x7, so not having work email on it okay with me. Syncing calendars would have been nice though.
Yesterday's announcements eliminate most of the quoted reasons for not supporting the iPhone. Given our Exchange plant is run by Microsoft fanboyz, I'm pretty sure new reasons will crop up in the next two months why the iPhone won't be supported - so now it'll be up to sufficiently powerful users on the business side (i.e. investment bankers) to make the case. Let's hope they win, as I would like to see a CrackBerry to iPhone shift at work.
I'm working from home today as we're expecting various deliveries; but it looks like I picked the tight day for it. They're expecting two to three inches of rain during today, with all the associated fun including flooding of the subways. The weather is nice now, but the evening commute would likely have been prolonged and painful.
Heidi takes the subway to work and the bus back home (she works on first avenue, so she can catch the uptown bus back home) so she should be fine.
I am glad we no longer live in the old apartment with its garden-level (half-basement) bedroom. The old apartment's bedroom was flooded twice in the last year we lived there, both on major rains; it's pretty sure to happen again today. Our current apartment is on the fifth floor of a building on the high end of a road that slopes down towards the park a block away, so rain is never an issue at the entrance, courtyard, stairs or apartment level.
Heidi takes the subway to work and the bus back home (she works on first avenue, so she can catch the uptown bus back home) so she should be fine.
I am glad we no longer live in the old apartment with its garden-level (half-basement) bedroom. The old apartment's bedroom was flooded twice in the last year we lived there, both on major rains; it's pretty sure to happen again today. Our current apartment is on the fifth floor of a building on the high end of a road that slopes down towards the park a block away, so rain is never an issue at the entrance, courtyard, stairs or apartment level.