THE NUMBER ONE question I’m hearing from people these days is “NOW can I use the iPhone with Notes?!?!”
The question comes on the heels of the WWDC event earlier this month and they are all wanting whatever-the-product-is that I’ve told them to “wait” for (Traveler, but they don’t care what the product is – they just want to use the iPhone in a Notes world). As a shurg my shoulders and begrudgingly say “no… not yet” I get a lot of disappointed and looks.
“But… but Apple announced a new phone! AND a new operating system! And… and they even talked about enterprise support… AND I SAW this…”
“… and ASSUMED that Lotus wouldn’t allow MICROSOFT to be mentioned without Lotus ALSO working with the product?!?!”
Now… in fairness, there are a lot of technologies at play here that are hidden within end-user comments about “Microsoft” and “Exchange” when they really are talking about stuff that’s a bit more complicated. At the same time, it doesn’t matter. Perception is reality and they have the perception that Apple and Microsoft are working well together while Lotus and Apple aren’t.
Damage control: I consistently remind people that IBM is a large company and that I’m sure they have no shortage of people working on the product. I remind them that its in beta testing at Greenhouse and that there’s a new release of Domino around the corner which, hopefully, will have support for the iPhone in it.
Still. It would have been nice to see “Lotus Notes/Domino” as the third bullet point to the slide above.
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:02 am
I get the same question, can’t wait until 8.5.1 is released…my fear is that by then everyone will have decided they want an Android and I’ll be back to waiting.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Kevin, you have asked questions like this before and become incensed when I have suggested that asking IBM about these questions was asking the wrong vendor in the equation. Perhaps the more you see IBM doing things like building Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1, or shipping Notes 8.5 at Macworld, you’ll see that IBM is willing to make the right decisions as a willing partner….but that there is obviously much more to the story than our actions.
June 24th, 2009 at 11:50 am
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June 24th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Ed, GREAT point. Rather than hiding the clarification this post deserves in the comments section, I’ve created an updated post.