Microsoft: The iPhone is irrelevant (to business)
Microsoft's Asia-Pacific head of smartphone strategy Chris Sorenson (presumably not a very busy man, then) has found time to criticise the iPhone as "irrelevant to business".
"It's a great music phone, and I'm sure it will be fantastic and have an interesting user interface. However, it's a closed device that you cannot install applications on, and there's no support for Office documents. If you're an enterprise and want to roll out line of business applications, it's just not an option. Even using it as a heavy messaging device will be a challenge."
Aha, so the main problem is that it doesn't have Microsoft Office on it. I would've thought that was an advantage, personally, as would a lot of Mac users.
Quite what the 'heavy messaging device' jibe is all about isn't clear - possibly a reference to its touchscreen-based keyboard.
Sorenson believes that people will want to use Windows Mobile on their devices - despite the fact that Symbian OS, BlackBerry OS, and to some extent Palm OS, are all major competitors.
"There's a growing trend towards smarter devices, and with WM6 we've tried to bring more of what you can do on a PC, onto the devices," he continued.
Yes - get bogged down in a crappy OS.
The whole point of the iPhone is that you can do much of what you can on a desktop Mac, on a smartphone. The iPhone.
"Manufacturers can innovate heavily in their designs, but keep that consistent [Windows] look and feel," he said.
Yep. Consistent. Consistently bad.
An Apple Australia spokesperson said that they were "not interested in commenting".
And quite right too. It's been a while since Microsoft have had a decent pop at Apple, but there's no need for us to be too concerned.
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