Joe2

iPhone Browsing Market Share Shows Importance of Usability

Yes, I agree on the usability argument. There's no comparison between the OS's either (and yes I use an iPhone too).

That said, we shouldn't forget that almost all of SAP users are people who work for large F500 companies (and this newly announced CRM module is a integrated to their large company ERP offering only anyway). These large company users use blackberrys not iPhones for work related stuff. iPhones don't work with Corporate exchange servers and VPN connections and so on. So it just seems like a very strange decision for SAP to FIRST support the iPhone BEFORE spporting the Blackberry... anyway time will tell it was a wise one or not.

iPhone Browsing Market Share Shows Importance of Usability

Carl - Blackberry usage in businesses is substantially higher than iPhone usage in businesses. SAP's move doesn't make sense given that most of it's CRM users are likely to be sales and marketing people - who tend to use Blackberrys are their primary work-related mobile device vs iPhone.

I don't get how you conclude your second paragraph from your first one. Can you please help connect the dots on why windows mobile and iPhone browsing behavior translates to SAP's decision to release CRM capability on iPhone AHEAD of Blackberry? Just because iPhone used more for web browsing than windows mobile devices?

Thanks,

Apple Joins Microsoft in Fear Factor; Look to Lenovo

I have Vista Home Premium (I think that's what it's called) running on Parallels on my Mac. Vista is the being piece of crap that I have seen in a while. I could write a book on flaws in this OS. The funny thing is, I worked in the product side of a large enterprise software company, and this company's products were routinely criticized as being ugly / unuseable / etc. When I used Vista, I realized that even this much maligned enterprise software company actually did quite well in terms of useability and robustness when compared with Vista! That's quite a statement...

To even somehow compare this to Apple's products and to assert that there is fear and loathing with Apple much like there is with Microsoft is absurd.

I, for one, am a thrilled Apple product user. And yes, I am completely aware of the restrictions that an Apple product set brings, but compared with the headaches that Vista brings, these restrictions are well worth it.