iPhone and work
Mar. 7th, 2008 07:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
connaticI 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.
