[quote author=“xumbra”]
Idiots !

They have absolutely no clue. For instance, try selling an AS/400 without OS/400 - or a mainframe without an OS? Should this also apply to telephones, cars, and refrigerators? The problem with this think-tank is that it needs all real contact to the real world.

Should we donate a telepfune to them ?

Oh, thanks for the good laugh.

Your thesis is spot-on, too.

Private Rooms

macbidouille.com has a report that two radio stations (RTL2,Fun Radio) are getting a private room within itunes where people can buy what is being played on the radio - a bit similar to Starbucks - interesting trend to link in such a way to the old media and even more power with the labels.

I think we read exactly the same initial reaction in the US to this, from blow-hard IT managers too stuck up their own arses to see the light. They said the same thing about the Blackberry too

10:28 EDT AAPL
theflyonthewall.com:  Apple’s iPhone not an option for U.K. businesses-CNet.com
Last week, Apple (AAPL) revealed the details of the U.K. version of its iPhone, which will be available starting November 9. However, according to Silicon.com, 11 of the 12 members of a CIO Jury IT director panel said they would not offer the iPhone as a corporate option, citing the high price, the restriction of one network provider, and the lack of a “killer application.”

They’ll go the way of the dinosaurs eventually. In the meantime, the media might want to remember that this is a consumer device, targeted at the consumer, and bought chiefly by consumers. BUT IT managers will be forced to accommodate the iPhone not because they want to, but because their bosses want to. You want to try telling your CEO that you won’t enable your corporate network to allow him to get his email on his new iPhone? It sucks to be fired.

iPhone doesn’t need CIO’s so CIO’s don’t want iPhone.

Backdating FUD

Inside Apple’s board

Poop stirring FUD from Troy Wolverton:

  Inside Apple’s board

His Apple hatred is undying.

Re: Backdating FUD

[quote author=“MacProdigalSon”]Inside Apple’s board
Poop stirring FUD from Troy Wolverton:
  Inside Apple’s board
His Apple hatred is undying.

Well to be honest, all he’s doing this time is reporting on the ridiculous obsession these “retirement funds” have with Apple’s backdating issue. For crying out loud, the stock is up 2000%.. I guess that’s just not enough for them?

Re: Backdating FUD

[quote author=“MacProdigalSon”]Inside Apple’s board

Poop stirring FUD from Troy Wolverton:

  Inside Apple’s board

His Apple hatred is undying.

(the story is that Board and committee minutes from 1997 to the present day are to be released to a shareholder pension fund by court order).

I think that’s totally outrageous that a single shareholder should get access to all board and committee meetings from 1997 to the present day. This is like justice by lynch mob. It’s surely the SEC’s role to deal with such things.

The shareholder should be be banned from trading Apple stock or derivatives for five years, and not be permitted to retain copies of anything; only to have designated individual review the documents in the presence of a witness. The only possible “benefit” is insider information to enable dealing in the stock. The only possible nonzero outcome is that they discover, or think they discover, a bad thing, and then damage the interests of all other shareholders by using it to damage Apple’s reputation.

I’m almost convinced this is a scam by Apple’s competitors to get inside information. It is deeply undesirable, in that if it happens, companies will even more make decisions outside the formal committees. Formally made decisions could come back to bite them up to ten years later. Nothing by email; nothing by committee will make things worse for shareholders everywhere.

[quote author=“sleepygeek”]iPhone doesn’t need CIO’s so CIO’s don’t want iPhone.

We knew that from Mac experience.  Wonder how these guys are resisting Mac resurgence?  Recalled that since Mac requires less maintenance and last longer, we would see lower PC growth, lesser corporate IT consulting services required, ... ultimately lower pay for CIO.

Re: Backdating FUD

[quote author=“sleepygeek”](the story is that Board and committee minutes from 1997 to the present day are to be released to a shareholder pension fund by court order).

I think that’s totally outrageous that a single shareholder should get access to all board and committee meetings from 1997 to the present day. This is like justice by lynch mob. It’s surely the SEC’s role to deal with such things.

The shareholder should be be banned from trading Apple stock or derivatives for five years, and not be permitted to retain copies of anything; only to have designated individual review the documents in the presence of a witness. The only possible “benefit” is insider information to enable dealing in the stock. The only possible nonzero outcome is that they discover, or think they discover, a bad thing, and then damage the interests of all other shareholders by using it to damage Apple’s reputation.

I’m almost convinced this is a scam by Apple’s competitors to get inside information. It is deeply undesirable, in that if it happens, companies will even more make decisions outside the formal committees. Formally made decisions could come back to bite them up to ten years later. Nothing by email; nothing by committee will make things worse for shareholders everywhere.

This may not be anything to worry about.  I cannot speak to Apple practices, but we always assumed that anything in our company’s board minutes would one day be read by litigants, competitors, or the government.

As an aside, The San Jose Mercury News has devolved to a poorly written, ill-diguised Microsoft shill, yellow in color.

iPod Touch owners in search of a Map application need look no further.

AT&T to upgrade 3G service, iPhone must wait

AT&T has promised to unveil an upgrade to its mobile network with a six-fold upload increase, but those improvements won’t include Apple’s iPhone until the Cupertino-based company unveils a newer model with support for the carrier’s quicker service. AT&T wireless network services president Richard Burns told Reuters in an interview that the cellular carrier expects to perform most of its planned upgrades in October and November, ramping upload speeds to help meet higher bandwidth demand from customers. “The ability to upload is becoming more important,” Burns said. “Everybody in the street is becoming a reporter so the desire to be able to upload is growing. That’s become a much bigger part of consumer demand than it was just a few years ago.” The network upgrades will increase speeds to 500-800Kbps from the current 120Kbps, but Burns points to AT&T surveys that suggest iPhone owners are happy with their slower EDGE service.

A recent report hinted at a new 3G/GPS-enabled iPhone that uses AT&T’s faster service. The new model is allegedly due to arrive some time during the first quarter of next year, and would drastically increase internet connection speeds for iPhone owners who are not within range of a Wi-Fi network.

( CIO’s don’t want iPhone )

Some of the reasons given by CIO’s not to support iPhone are rather amusing:

- concerns over staff being targeted for theft of such a desirable object
- far too pricey

I have always been amazed by the laziness and self delusion of corporate buyers. They can’t even tell the difference between a subsidised price and the real price, and they don’t realise that with 80% fixed costs, and probably 10% per-contract costs, and 0.01% per-call costs, they ought to be able to drive the most incredible deals with cellular carriers. Apple’s actually making them pay for iPhones - boo hoo.