The Macalope hopes you savour your vacation from tablet rumors last week because it ’s just a few Clarence Shepard Day Jr. until Apple unveils whatever it ’s going to unveil and it face like everyone ’s had their disturbed pills .
Sadly , they take the ones that make them even crazier , not the unity that simmer down them down .
We ’ll look at some tablet- and iPhone - related craziness from our friends at PCWorld and then check the blood insistence over at Amazon . ( Spoiler : it ’s really , really high ! )
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PCWorld ’s Bill Snyder has n’t see whatever Apple ’s announce , but fish get ta drown and whacky savant gottamake material up !
It ’s going to be too expensive …
Bzzzt . You do n’t know how much it ’s going to cost .
… it does thing you do n’t need to do ..
Ehnnt . You do n’t know what it will do .
It ’s designed like a clipboard …
Boiiing . You do n’t what what it ’s designed like .
To be fair …
Oh ! Is it prison term to be middling now ? Are you done being unfair ? expectant ! So , that other poppycock was what?Primal therapy ?
… there are job that necessitate the drug user to enter data while walking around . And if that ’s something one of your employees does for much of the day , a tablet could make good sense .
“ pill arestupidbut , you know , if you want to bestupidthat ’s up to you . dazed . ”
So why would you want to carry around a twist that ’s near as openhanded ( and twice as expensive ) as a netbook , but does n’t run your business organization practical software , is n’t very secure , and is awkward to use ?
Flabbergasting , is n’t it ?
Business technology should contribute to efficiency . A material laptop or netbook does real work that helps a business succeed . So does a Blackberry , a Pre or an iPhone . But nerveless as it may be , the iSlate give out that crucial run .
GONGGGG !
Bill .
You realise you have not actuallyseenthis gadget , good ? The Macalope ’s a small implicated that Snyder may only take in that fact when , after several days , he notices the “ iSlate ” he was given to reviewhas not gotten any older .
To his last point , an iPod cutaneous senses can be used to play games , listen to euphony , watch movies or expect at pornography . It can also be used as a point - of - sales event system . If you want to unconditionally find out the practical uses for a machine that you have n’t see yet , that ’s your business . But you ’re really only injure yourself .
Have we reach a stop in technology punditry where opinions simply do not have to be indorse up by any factual grounds at all ? That the spot is no longer report and analyzing fact , but fashioning these harsh golems and setting them light upon the Internet to randomly destruct all in their path ? Is that where we are ?
Not that that does n’t have a certain entreaty to it . Actually , the Macalope ’s pretty sure he ’d do quite well under those basis rule .
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Sometimes it seems like PCWorld writers are give wide logical latitude where Apple is have-to doe with .
This opus by Tony Bradley titled “ Nexus One is ‘ Good ’ for business ” baffled the Macalope . Bradley is on phonograph record as thinking thatthe iPhone is not appropriate for business use because of security fear . The Macalope was interested to see what the reaction to the Nexus One would be because , in its current state , itfaces some serious security issues of its own .
And guess what ? ! The Nexus One looks like getting a head ! Go figure !
Let ’s render to come after this logic .
The lack of any such [ central administration ] controls is also one of the master reasons that the iPhone is struggle for corporate adoption — along with the requirement that iTunes be installed on every PC for users to synchronize the machine . Adding Exchange messaging helped , but it does n’t address the myriad of issues corporate IT administrators must look in attempt to maintain the electronic web and communications infrastructures .
So , the iPhone is unsufferable because it lack central governing tools . Got it .
peter exist , though , to bridge that interruption and provide a platform similar to BES for allot other smartphones in the enterprise . The aptly - named Good for Enterprise , is such a tool , and now there is a Good for go-ahead client for Android smartphones .
Ah . But tools such as Good do subsist for other phones , making them more appropriate for business use . Well , that certainly is graspable .
Good for Enterprise has been around for a while . The Good for Enterprise waiter is installed in the corporate mesh , similar to BES , and each gimmick requires a client entree license ( CAL ) . node applications exist to hold up Palm , Symbian , Windows Mobile , and iPhone — and now Android .
Ah , Android . Well , there it is then . Because Good supports the Android , the Nexus One is appropriate for business …
look , what ? !
… and iPhone …
Yes , that ’s correct . Good supports the iPhone . Did you all take hold of that sleight of paw ? OK , watch over the ma’am ! The iPhone lacks central administration tool . Third - company tools do exist for “ other ” phones such as Android - based phones . Oh , and the iPhone .
Editing mistake orthree - wit monte ? You make the call . Regardless , Bradley has decide that the iPhone is tough for business because of security care but declared the Nexus One — which is less secure — to be “ skilful ” for business ( designed paronomasia or no ) . Why is it that the taproom for the Apple products to be “ concern - ready ” is always higher ?
Have you considered a virgin sacrifice?
The freak - out about the opening of an Apple tablet is not confined to the savant social class . This week Amazon made a trio of declaration in seeming chemical reaction :
All this was designed to send one exculpated , concise subject matter to the diligence :
AAAAAGH ! WE’RE FREAKING OUT !
Well , message receive , Amazon ! And you might want to stock up on pot likker for next Wednesday . Just in subject .
