Apple and IBM join forces in landmark push for iOS in enterprise

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  • Reply 21 of 249
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member
    WOW.

    This is a BIG deal. iOS already dominates enterprise use (for mobile) over Android, BB and MS. Now they're adding an 800lb gorilla to fill in the gaps and round out their enterprise offerings.

    I'm also surprised that IBM is going to exclusively sell iOS devices to their enterprise customers.

    I'm curious to know who all inside Apple has been involved with this. From what I saw on IBM's website a lot of these applications were co-designed by Apple and IBM. Plus it sounds like some of this stuff will be announced this fall. Maybe we will hear about it at an Apple event announcing an "iPad Pro". Hmm...
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  • Reply 22 of 249
    jexusjexus Posts: 373member

    Poor poor Blackberry....can't catch a break.

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  • Reply 23 of 249
    sockrolidsockrolid Posts: 2,789member

    Originally Posted by AppleInsider View Post

    Aside from the tailor-made software, IBM will also offer services like mass device management, security, analytics and mobile integration.

     

    Microsoft's future just snapped into focus for me.  Because now they have something to copy, and not just in terms of OS look-and-feel.  Now Microsoft has an enterprise competitor to mimic.  And if the IBM + Apple partnership is successful, Microsoft is sure to attempt something just like it.

     

    Except for one thing.  Apple is now officially "taken" in the enterprise space.  Who can Microsoft team up with on the mobile hardware side?  Nokia?  Nope.  Already own Nokia.  Plus there's the whole death-spiral thing.  BlackBerry?  Nope.  Death-spiral too.  Oh well.  Microsoft can just write apps for iOS devices, like they already are.  And they can handle the whole enterprise management, analytics, and mobile integration all by themselves.  But, of course, it's too late anyway.  iOS devices already dominate enterprise mobile.  Game over except for the battle for distant second.

     

    We'll see who Satya Nadella lays off.  My guess is that most or all of the hardware division will go (some of Surface, most of Nokia) and maybe some or or all of the Windows Phone and/or Windows RT software division(s) will go.  Best to cut your losses and mimic another successful competitor in your newly refocused market.  And that would be IBM.  They dumped all their hardware long ago, even the CNET-darling ThinkPad line.  (But maybe Microsoft will keep Xbox, just because it's finally breaking even and they can point to it as a "hardware success.")

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  • Reply 24 of 249
    wurm5150wurm5150 Posts: 763member
    Hell has frozen over.. Crows have turned white.. And Steve Jobs is rolling over his grave.
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  • Reply 25 of 249
    waybacmacwaybacmac Posts: 309member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by DeeGee48 View Post



    Maybe now, Apple will finally have the lion's share of the enterprise market, like Windows of old! It's about time!



    Be careful what you wish for. I prefer Apple stays the underdog. It keeps them true to SJ's vision.

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  • Reply 26 of 249
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    gtr wrote: »
    You mean iBM.

    Yes. That's a lowercase "i". ;)

    LOL Good one.

    This is huge news!
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  • Reply 27 of 249
    lkrupplkrupp Posts: 10,557member

    Bbbbwwwwuh?... but, but, but you can only do real work on a PC. Macs and iOS are toys for consuming videos and playing dinky mobile games. I’ve heard this so many times it just has to be true, doesn’t it? Why would almighty enterprise want to use toys in business? What is becoming of American business?

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  • Reply 28 of 249
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    waybacmac wrote: »
    Be careful what you wish for. I prefer Apple stays the underdog. It keeps them true to SJ's vision.

    I don't think Steve's vision was to remain an underdog.
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  • Reply 29 of 249
    adonissmuadonissmu Posts: 1,776member

    Ohh WOW! I'm stunned. 

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  • Reply 30 of 249
    rcfarcfa Posts: 1,124member
    Hope this is not a rerun of the OpenStep partnership between IBM and NeXT which then was ditched in favor of OS/2 just for IBM to deservedly be back stabbed in return by M$.
    Of course it could also be a rerun of the SUN NeXT OpenStep partnership which ended with SUN halfassedly stealing the concepts of OpenStep to cough up half-baked Java and then ditching OpenStep. Or in a better scenario it would end up just fizzling out like the PPC consortium or Taligent...

    ...all I'm saying: don't count the chickens before they hatch ;)
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  • Reply 31 of 249
    coolfactorcoolfactor Posts: 2,407member
    Editor: The video won't play. Giving all kinds of JavaScript errors.
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  • Reply 32 of 249
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by rcfa View Post



    ...all I'm saying: don't count the chickens before they hatch image

    I'm liking this deal even less than Beats.

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  • Reply 33 of 249
    gtrgtr Posts: 3,231member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Jexus View Post

     

    Poor poor Blackberry....can't catch a break.


     

    Oh, it's a break!

     

    Compound fracture, I'd say...

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  • Reply 34 of 249
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member
    wurm5150 wrote: »
    Hell has frozen over.. Crows have turned white.. And Steve Jobs is rolling over his grave.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC
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  • Reply 35 of 249
    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member

    Nice.

     

    Tomorrow should be very, very interesting for AAPL.

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  • Reply 36 of 249
    apple ][apple ][ Posts: 9,233member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by SpamSandwich View Post

     

    Nice.

     

    Tomorrow should be very, very interesting for AAPL.


    Tomorrow?

     

    Why wait until tomorrow?

     

    Look at AAPL now. Up nicely in AH.

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  • Reply 37 of 249
    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Apple ][ View Post

     

    Tomorrow?

     

    Why wait until tomorrow?

     

    Look at AAPL now. Up nicely in AH.


     

    Oh, yes it is. Woe unto the shorts.

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  • Reply 38 of 249
    timmymantimmyman Posts: 31member
    rcfa wrote: »
    Hope this is not a rerun of the OpenStep partnership between IBM and NeXT which then was ditched in favor of OS/2 just for IBM to deservedly be back stabbed in return by M$.

    1) IBM was never involved in OpenStep.
    2) OS/2 came out in 1987 while OpenStep came out in 1994.

    So what you talk about never happened to begin with.
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  • Reply 39 of 249

    Wow, this is a BIG deal! Apple has already managed to get a very strong foot hold into enterprises by virtue of consumer choice for iOS devices (I still smile a bit at the articles I read several years ago, of CEO's and higher up's demanding their IT guys to work with their iPhones)… but this is going to solidify their position. 

     

    And it's incredibly cool how Apple can find common ground with former sworn enemies to competitive advantage: Apple teaming with MS on search, patent licensing, etc, and notably of course, IBM. Hopefully it's not lost on anyone here that long ago, Apple was in for the fight of their life when the Macintosh debuted, and Steve Jobs questioned whether Big Blue would dominate the computer industry. FF 30 years later, now they have a strategic partnership. What could happen next??

     

    "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!" :D

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  • Reply 40 of 249
    herbapouherbapou Posts: 2,228member
    Wonder if this will extend to macs too.
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