David on Apple

ANDROID :: T-Mobile comes out with something Tuesday

I have not nor will I own an iPhone, with that said, I have been a long time Apple supporter and have in my house right now 2 Power Macs, 2 Mac Book Pros, 1 iBook, and 1 MacSE. I am no stranger to Mac or Apple. It’s not that I don’t think the iPhone is neat or super, it does not fit a need for me and that’s about it, I still want one but I don’t need one. I have no purpose for an iPhone and I would submit that over 50% of the people who have them don’t have a need for them either, it’s more of a want or a must be seen with, kind of thing.

Apple for more than 10 years has completely missed the Corporate IT boat and they have again missed it. I just don’t think they are thinking about it properly. Google on the other hand is going after small and large IT with reckless abandon and I think it’s grand. Google about a year ago released ANDROID, and phone based Open OS, and an SDK that exceed anything Apple was doing with the iPhone and xCode’s SDK. They both have strong points, but I think ANDROID is a bit more platform independent than iPhones seeing as how it runs on anything that will support Eclipse.

Well to keep this short, TMOBILE is going to release something tommarow using the ANDROID platform, and I can’t wait. They might not have a Blackberry shim for it yet but I am sure there will be a day real soon that the ANDROID platform is BES compliant.

LINK :: C-NET Story about ANDROID and TMOBILE

MacOSX Server :: Top Ten Myths and Misconceptions About Mac OS X Server

So what is the IBM i guy doing talking about MacOSX, when I happen to like MacOSX and I happen to think that OSX Server is rock’n!

Link :: Top Ten Myths and Misconceptions About Mac OS X Server

Sync your Mac & your iPhone all with Lotus Notes - PocketMac

So you are a Mac user, and for that you’re smart, then you are being told to use Lotus Notes and as a Mac user that makes you crazy for all the right reasons. You can’t use Spotlight to search and I again know your pain. But the problem is you’re still on a Mac, you have Lotus Notes and your trusty iPhone is lost since you can’t sync the iPhone to anything in Lotus Notes, until now!

You need PocketMac GoBetween for Lotus Notes

You can also sync a few other devices other than your iPhone. So you are not limited to just the iPhone, there is a very heavy list of what you can sync with.

IBM may be moving to Apple for Desktops & Laptops

Oh me? I have never been a big supporter of Windows, that is clear. I have a long history of not liking Windows. I have also been very vocal with IBM telling them they can tell us how much they hate Windows and then force the user community they have to use it. It’s just not right. Plus all of their internal employees are mostly forced to use Windows as well. The most funny thing is IBM has a person, who shall remain nameless, that is the most vocal Open Sourced Linux fanatic/evangelist working all over the world spreading the good news up Linux, PHP and MySQL on POWER and his desktop is of course a Windows desktop. How insane is that?

I think this is a positive move in the right direction by I do recall a press release from IBM in 2003 that said in the next 3 -4 years most internal desktops would move to Linux and we see where that has gotten….no where.

Link to the Post

“Long-time Microsoft Windows supporter IBM has recently initiated an internal pilot program to study the possibility of moving a significant number of its employees to Apple’s Mac platform, leaked company documents show.”

I also found this link while doing more reading. 

With good result and comments like these I think this is a very positive thing for IBM and Apple.

“I have been a true PC stalwart for 2+ decades, but after trying Vista, I’m ready for a change.”

“Getting wireless running was a piece of cake on the Mac, much simpler than the PC.”

But then again for all the Mac people out there you already knew what IBM is finding out today!

Sharing - How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong

I am a fan of Apple and know they have problems but I just wanted to share this interesting article with all of you and hope you all learn something from Apple’s Years of Doing things wrong! —> Link