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Is Apple shooting in the dark to fix iPhone 3G issues? {Engadget}
Aug 20th 2008 2:30PM @Jesse
You may be an "IT guy", but it doesn't look like you're a very good one. Or maybe you're letting the beautiful glass screen and curved backing cloud your professional judgement. Yes, the iPhone is amazing, and yes I love mine. But I'm tired of dealing with the bugs and false impressions that Apple has intentionally set for the Enterprise world.
Let's see:
* As previously mentioned, meeting invites accepted on other computers appear as "maybe" on the iPhone, which brings me to the next shortcoming:
* Users have no ability to *not* send an email reply when accepting or denying a meeting, so if you re-accept your invites on the iPhone because of the previously mentioned problem then you're automatically spamming the meeting creator.
* No ability to invite people to meetings because the invites list has no recognition of contacts at all, which points back to its hacky implementation (there shouldn't be an "invites list" in the first place).
* Unlike Safari and email, phone numbers within meeting invites are not linked to the phone app, so when you have a conference call event containing dial-in information there's a lot of required memorization. I suppose cut and paste might work around that bug, but oops, no cut and paste.
* Emails are not pushed to Inbox subfolders.
* No "out of office" configuration
* Push email absolutely kills the battery for anyone who gets a lot of email (like most Enterprise users), resulting in nightly recharges in the best case but multiple recharges per day for email-heavy users, especially on 3G.
* Emails cannot be flagged
* No way to block users from saving VPN credentials on the phone, which is a security risk especially if the iPhone uses the default Cisco encryption algorithm for stored passwords (which is documented all over the web)
There are many more missing features, and as an "IT guy" you should be the first to understand that business users do need these things, especially when they've become accustomed to them being available in their Blackberry.
Is Apple shooting in the dark to fix iPhone 3G issues? {Engadget}
Aug 19th 2008 9:53PM That's right Jubei. You found us out. Me and the other 75% of people on this forum reporting issues are all paid for by Microsoft. The iPhone does not, in fact, have any bugs in it and all of us "complainers" on every forum around the world are part of a grand anti-Apple conspiracy. Actually, since we're apparently not iPhone owners then I suppose we cannot confirm that it does not have bugs.
Guys, we've been found out. Let's call it a day and move on.
Is Apple shooting in the dark to fix iPhone 3G issues? {Engadget}
Aug 19th 2008 9:36PM @Jesse
I'd say Engadget has been very explicit in stating: "some iPhone 3G owners have experienced", "plagued a select group of handsets". Not sure why you think they're assuming everyone is having these problems.
They may be generalizing a bit when they state that it still feels like beta, and that's exactly where my comment comes in. It *does* feel like beta if you're a user who needs the features that have been confirmed either broken or in some cases not implemented (of course but nowhere is this mentioned). Not everyone has these particular problems because not everyone uses them. Though just about everyone who does use them is struggling with the issues.
Example: Enterprise users who are considering switching from a Blackberry to an iPhone might be interested in knowing that the Exchange integration is, at best, an okay first attempt beta quality .8 release. There are several areas where this is *confirmed* broken or incomplete.
Is Apple shooting in the dark to fix iPhone 3G issues? {Engadget}
Aug 19th 2008 9:11PM That's rich.
Apple: To work around this bug, you'll need to turn off the feature that we're charging you an extra $15/month for. Sorrybahbye!
Is Apple shooting in the dark to fix iPhone 3G issues? {Engadget}
Aug 19th 2008 9:03PM Uh, ok, try opening Contacts with several hundred entries (you know, like most enterprise users). Or try accepting a meeting invite on another computer and then see what it looks like in your iPhone invites list. Or try to invite someone to a meeting! Sorry, this is *very* beta for the enterprise crowd. And anyone who watched Stevie Jobs during the 3G launch knows that we're the ones he's heavily marketing to.
Can anyone actually list a single bug that 2.0.2 actually fixed? Do we have any confirmation that it actually fixed anything? Some say reception is better, some say it's worse. Some say keyboard lag is better, some say it's exactly the same. The configuration settings are exactly the same.
It's cute and dramatic how Apple likes to hide everything from everyone all the time and then roll things out in their cute theatrical style. But releasing patches in which no one can actually understand what was fixed, and refusing to list the bug fixes because then they'd be acknowledging that bugs exist in their product.....f*cking aggravating.
Pwnage 2.0.2 released, for reals this time {Engadget}
Aug 9th 2008 12:33PM @Applehater
I bought an iPhone primarily because of the browser and the UI, which are unparalleled IMO. But if you think it "doesn't work as well" then I'll wait for you to identify a better option. I spent a couple of years dealing with the daily crashes of Windows Mobile (and the horrid UI) and then a year or so with a Blackberry which couldn't load a real web page or render HTML emails. I'm not exactly sure what you mean when you imply the iphone doesn't work as well, but my experience has been anything but that.
HP responds to MediaSmart Server issues, offers no real solution at all {Engadget}
Jul 29th 2008 10:08PM @Ben
Yup, that's a nice Vista feature and would work nicely if you're a real roll-up-your-sleeves kind of person who doesn't need the bells and whistles ...... and all of your home's Windows machines are Vista Ultimate, Vista Business or Vista Enterprise.
HP responds to MediaSmart Server issues, offers no real solution at all {Engadget}
Jul 29th 2008 4:28PM The MediaSmart machines, especially with all their bloatware, do seem to suck.
However Windows Home Server is very very good. For Windows client backup it's hard to beat WHS, and AFAIK no Linux solution offers automatic incremental imaged backups of Windows clients.
My home-built WHS runs perfectly stable at an idle power consumption of 29 watts (measured from wall).
Power Pack 1 and HP's add-ons make Windows Home Server a real grouch {Engadget}
Jul 28th 2008 4:39PM Come on Andir3.0, just admit it. For a household of Windows machines, WHS is the superior solution.
No one here is "blaming" Linux for anything. We're just stating that in this case, WHS is superior to anything Linux has to offer. By the way, I have a WAMP server running on my WHS box and I'm regularly playing around with the latest distros (mostly out of interest and curiosity). I have nothing against Linux or OSS. But while it may seem that Linux would be a perfect solution for automatic backup, it's not. At least not for Windows clients.
By the way, I'd love to have a free open source solution that can do what WHS does. I'd gladly switch if/when a better solution pops up. But there's a big difference between imaged and non-imaged backups and I refuse to spend another full day (or longer) rebuilding a crashed machine with all my settings/applications/OS/etc.
Power Pack 1 and HP's add-ons make Windows Home Server a real grouch {Engadget}
Jul 28th 2008 2:09PM Nope, with WHS your failed client PC does not even need to boot into an OS.
WHS comes with a bootable CD whose sole purpose is to load the network drivers, and then find and connect to WHS over the network to perform a completely automatic network-based restore of the entire disk. Takes only as long as the files take to copy over the network. Backuppc cannot do this, at least not with Windows clients.
