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The Enterprise, The iPhone, and the Role of Silverlight

With its recent announcement to support ActiveSync on the iPhone , Apple is clearly going after the enterprise user. The problem, as Colin puts it, is that the decisions that consumers make decisions on a radically different set of criteria than organizations . Lack of Exchange support was surely holding...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-27-2008
How to buy an unlocked iPhone (and thoughts on the iPod Touch)

Go to Germany and bring $1,500 with you (well, more if the dollar keeps slipping and you don't go soon). T-Mobile will be selling an unlocked, contract-less iPhone as a result of a German court ruling . T-Mobile said Wednesday that it will sell the iPhone in Germany without a contract, complying...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2007
What exactly is an iPhone application?

Scoble mentions 3 new iPhone apps today from Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google. It's interesting that companies keep saying they are doing "iPhone development", when really these are nothing more than sites skinned to look more natural on the iPhone. The iPhone is the only mobile phone that...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-24-2007
The iPhone is a game-changer

I recently wrote a piece for the TechDirt Insight Community about the impact of the iPhone and how the other carriers and device manufacturers can respond to the iPhone. I've come to realize that the iPhone has indeed changed the game, but maybe not for the obvious reasons. Yes, the iPhone is "making...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-05-2007
iPhone impressions

Alex has an iPhone (two, actually) and posted his first impressions (but not until he shared his activation woes ). In talking to Alex and reading other reviews, the general consensus is that the iPhone is very good, but underneath it all it's still the same old carrier BS. I did have a chance to play...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-02-2007
Windows Home Server

One of the more exciting announcements that many may have been missed in the iPhone haze last week was Windows Home Server . It's a headless Windows 2003 appliance that 1) backs up data from all computers on a network, 2) streams media, and 3) provides remote access to documents over the Internet. Alex...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-14-2007
I don't want an iPhone

No, I'm not entirely crazy. There's no denying that this is a sweet device. The people and markets have spoken and most seem to be in love - or at least in lust - with it. As a device, I think that it's a game changer - but there there are some practical issues I need to get past before I can bring myself...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-10-2007
A look at Apple and Microsoft strategies

I've been thinking about some of the interesting strategic decisions that Microsoft has made lately. I already discussed their curious IP licensing strategy , and their choices with Zune and Windows Media Player have me similarly baffled. In many ways, these moves have been something I expect more from...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-01-2007
Podcast support in Windows Media Player 11

There is one other issue I need to deal with before I can totally switch to Windows Media Player 11 - podcast support. Microsoft made the head-scratching decision not to include native podcast support - one area where iTunes really excelled. Someone wrote a plugin over the summer , but it doesn't work...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-28-2006
dopisp adds iPod support in WMP 11

Like most people, I would prefer to use a single media player to manage my library. I like Windows Media Player 11 more than iTunes 7 , and this is especially true since I've subscribed to the Urge subscription service . (I really wish Apple would provide a subscription-based service for the iPod). The...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-28-2006

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