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Information Technology News There's no business like iPhone business - at all
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| by David M Williams | |
| Thursday, 10 July 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 I asked Peter about this and he told me Telstra expected to have a NextG BlackBerry available next month. He talked it up, and I absolutely agree with him the NextG BlackBerry will be a delight to hold. Yet, this simply reinforces the soup Nazi message: “no iPhone for you!The root cause is nothing more, in my opinion, than the Apple demand to have a share in the call charges being levied. I have been given no other reason for the lack of concern for the large-spending enterprise customers than this. Well, unless you count Peter’s view that corporations and governments ought not to be early adopters of technology – but really, I have to ask, how long must a device be out before you can legitimately trial it without being considered a traitor to the perceived way of a CIO? Still, much of what I say could be moot. After all, Telstra – and all the telcos – have been cagey on the details they spill. All may change tomorrow, July 11th, when the full details of Telstra’s plans are known. I won’t be the only one watching the news: the last word from my Telstra rep today was “I keep getting conflicting info from internal Telstra... tomorrow all should be revealed to us and I’ll let you know.” Until then, however, the message to people like me – to those who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on telecommunications and IT infrastructure – is clear. “No iPhone for you.” And the message back to Apple is "no push e-mail for you." After all, who do they think will be using it?
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