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Apple Throws The Gauntlet At Microsoft IE7

by Ronen Halevy on Jul 15th, 2008 at 12:59 am EST
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When Remzi told me about this I just knew I had to post it. I got a good belly laugh out of this one so just bear with me. It turns out that when you go to Apple’s new MobileMe service (www.me.com) from Internet Explorer 7 you will get the following message:

Mobileme

Sorry guys if you did not find this as funny as I did. I have just been waiting for ages for somebody to stick it to the man. It is interesting to see that Apple is promoting both their own Safari AND Firefox. Could you imagine Microsoft doing the same thing?

MobileMe is Apple’s answer to RIM’s BIS push email mixed with a few BES features. RIM really needs to start offering BIS customers more than just emails if they want to keep them from being tempted by the iPhone. I will leave it at that for now.

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13 Comments to “Apple Throws The Gauntlet At Microsoft IE7”

  1. Posted by: Randy R.
    July 15, 2008 at 1:48 am EST

    ROFL. The man in my opinion is losing power, Vista a Flop ,bringing back XP whats next.

  2. Posted by: muck
    July 15, 2008 at 2:37 am EST

    i dunno. if i have to pay rim $120aud a year for something like mobileme. i would be greatly disappointed.

  3. Posted by: DavidB
    July 15, 2008 at 8:45 am EST

    I wonder if it’s ANY IE, or just IE7? There are MILLIONS in corporate America that due to software baseline lockdowns are still forced to use IE6.

    I’ll agree that RIM’s BIS email support is poor at best. Come on, all this time and we STILL don’t have proper HTML email viewing (unless we use beta software or 3rd party apps). And even when we finally DO get HTML email viewing, there will still be no composing or replying in HTML? Is RIM TRYING to push customers (primarily consumers) away?

  4. Posted by: portorikan
    July 15, 2008 at 11:07 am EST

    That’s pretty neat, I’m glad they did that.

    Quite frankly, as soon as the iphone is freed from ATT, I’ll probably be switching over from my BB to an iphone. I’ll be patient until then, but mobile is great for me, besides being fully Mac compatible, which RIM certainly isn’t.

  5. Posted by: DavidB
    July 15, 2008 at 11:29 am EST

    @portorikan:
    What have you seen (and where) that leads you to think iPhone will ever be “freed” from ATT? Besides hacking it?

  6. Posted by: portorikan
    July 15, 2008 at 11:49 am EST

    @DavidB – well, the contract is/was apparently for ATT to have the iphone exclusively for 5 years. 4 more years to go.

    I would think that after 4 years Apple would be interested in selling their phone to other carriers in the US. We’ll see.

  7. Posted by: DavidB
    July 15, 2008 at 12:28 pm EST

    OH. I would think in 4 years from now there will be many far cooler devices out there than iPhone, but hey if ya don’t mind the wait… ;)

  8. Posted by: portorikan
    July 15, 2008 at 12:41 pm EST

    I’m sure there will be a lot cooler devices out there, but I’m also sure that in 4 more years the iphone will have continued to improve as well.

    I’m looking forward to the seemless integration of my phone with the rest of my digital life on my computer. Something not many folks but Apple seem to have figured out is important to users.

  9. Posted by: Luciano ES
    July 15, 2008 at 2:47 pm EST

    I’m also sure that in 4 more years the iphone will have continued to improve as well, but then the new improved iphone will be bound to a new contract, possibly still with AT&T. What are you going to do then? Wait another 4 years? But then, another 4 years later, the iphone will have continued to improve as well, but then the new improved iphone will be bound to a new contract, possibly… (infinite loop).
    There is a carrot they will never let you bite.

  10. Posted by: Luciano ES
    July 15, 2008 at 2:49 pm EST

    Oh, by the way: those are big words from a company that won’t you have copy and paste, MMS or decent Bluetooth.

  11. Posted by: portorikan
    July 15, 2008 at 2:55 pm EST

    That’s ok Luciano. I just won’t get it. I’m perfectly fine right now with my carrier and not interested in changing.

    What you say is all speculation, since non of us know. If it happens, then it happens. No big deal, I won’t get the iphone. What I’ve got now suffices for a phone.

  12. Posted by: DavidB
    July 15, 2008 at 3:23 pm EST

    @Luciano:
    Ja, I was shocked to find out iPhone (any version) does not support BT A2DP! That is hilarious from THE name in portable music devices!!!

  13. Posted by: TimC
    July 17, 2008 at 10:58 am EST

    Well Opera is also blocked, but you can mask auth.apple.com as Firefox, and it will let you in.