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By: pa

pa — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:25:16 +0000

@Schotanus,

I have no idea what you mean. However, interesting name.

By: stefn

stefn — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:47:42 +0000

@Berend
Good post. Reminds me of the saying that it’s easy to be Christian in a Communist country.

By: JasonBelec

JasonBelec — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:01:01 +0000

If everyone would just stop using Exchange, the issues would go away. No excuse under the sun repeals the fact that MS has left so many open doors and bent so many rules in the corporate infrastructure as to make one wonder why people bother to claim ’secure’!

By: SteveS

SteveS — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:49:31 +0000

@Galen,
I’m glad you took the time to read articles like this that take you to task on what you’ve written. While I agree with your sentiment in that Daniel’s posts are often equally opinionated rants (which almost always seem to unnecessarily bring politics in to the discussion), etc. I have to point out here that Dan’s assessment and rebuttal to your post were right on the money.

After reading your post on Macworld, I was honestly embarrassed for you. It’s obvious that you experienced frustration and you wrote that article as a means of venting. However, it’s quite clear that you didn’t know what you were talking about. Worse, I know that you’re a long time Mac user and reading empty threats of switching to Palm, etc. was very much akin to a child throwing a temper tantrum. While attempting to discredit Apple’s enterprise possibilities, you’ve only discredited yourself as a journalist. To that end, I strongly suggest you do a follow up article, after doing some research of course, to set the matter right and hope to gain back some of the trust from those who once admired your work.

By: duckie

duckie — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:45:34 +0000

Perhaps a simpler way of expressing this issue is “Exchange Server still agrees to sync with devices that have no knowledge of policy settings that are supposedly mandatory. This is a security hole perpetuated by Microsoft in order to preserve backwards compatibility with older Windows Mobile devices that do just what older iPhone OS versions do, and unlike the iPhone, can’t be upgraded. So now you know who to blame.”

By: Berend Schotanus

Berend Schotanus — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:47:50 +0000

You discovered that “Exchange support” isn’t a binary thing.

Love and hate, good and evil, are binary ways of presenting the real world. But the real world isn’t binary either.
As a small challenger company it was relatively easy (but still an achievement) for Apple to represent the absolute good for a dedicated herd of fanboys. Apple is no longer a small company and as a large company it is confronted with real world tensions.
There is a natural tension between big corporations and their employees. Corporations tend to search excessive control over their employees. Employees tend to neglect the security interests of their employers. When you’re trying to get friends with the corporation, the employees aren’t gonna like you and vice versa. When you’re trying to get friends with both you’re inevitably get hurt somewhere.
When you’re a large company you’ll inevitably have many stakeholders and also conflict of interest between stakeholders. Still it’s good Apple is becoming a big company. Still it’s good to explain what’s going on. But in the process something irreversible got lost: the binary “good” that Apple used to have when it was still a small company.

By: august

august — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:54:26 +0000

@deardeveloper The Confederate flag was a symbol of the Confederacy in the Civil War which they fought for the right to have slaves in the new territories and for their white supremacist way of life. You can’t get around that anyway you look at it. It’s like saying ‘niger’ is just Latin for ‘black’ so we should be able to say it with impunity.