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Posted on 03/19/2010 2:17:38 AM PDT by Swordmaker
SanDisk's Ravi Naik says business-ready iPhones are the future.
BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Nearly every consumer relies on SanDisk, the leader in flash memory cards that go into smart phones, computers and cameras. Forbes caught of up recently with Ravi Naik, SanDisk's vice president of IT, to discuss the iPhone's potential as a business tool.
Forbes: What kind of technology or gadget are you most in love with in your personal life today? What is making your life easier, not just in terms of your job in IT?
Ravi Naik: This won't surprise you. I use an iPhone extensively. I am pretty much connected to everything that's going on at work almost on a 24/7 basis. I get e-mails. I get my phone calls. I get network outages. I get flash reports that the executives get--that the CEO gets--on a daily basis, all on my iPhone. The iPhone is the single most powerful device that I use right now.
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Welcome back! Where were you?
As regards iPhones for business —
Right now I’m traveling with SalesGuys #1 and #2. One has an iPhone, one has a Blackberry.
I on the other hand have a retro clamshell phone for making and receiving calls. I don’t even “text”; I realize I’m the last working human being in the world that doesn’t “text”. (I have my laptop too, of course.)
I’m getting more done because I have less thoughtitis interruptus. Mr. Blackberry and Mr. Iphone get a *ping!* about every three seconds, it seems. And they HAVE TO LOOK! JUST LIKE PAVLOV’S DOG! They seem biologically incapable of ignoring that *ping!*. I think I even caught one of ‘em drooling when the *ping!* came in. :-)
Kind of comical, actually.
On a serious note, I can’t deny the sheer power of the iPhone. Maybe someday soon — looks like we’ll be developing some biz apps that would benefit.
Welcome back, Sword!!
Anxiously awaiting the Mac Pro long-lost updates!!
Ed
And, um, does the iPhone have an SDcard internal? Guess our boy wasn’t texting enough to make that happen.
Welcome back and I had heard you can use an iPhone to watch March Madness basketball games.
for a moment, I thought you were talking about the March madness in DC.
Both the basketball and the Congressional March Madness.
I turned off the audio alert on most notifications after about a week of owning my iPhone. As you note, way too distracting.
As a gezzer who recently swapped 3 land lines and 2 cell lines for two IPhones while maintaining the primary land line numbers, I can report success.
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I'M BACK!
And it is good to see you back and posting the Mac/Apple articles that our group loves to see. :-)
I hope your little get-away was restful and that it was a nice break...
Heh.
I took a break from posting. I was getting attacked too often by the anti-Mac luddites and being accused of being an Apple employee too many times... and being accused of what THEY do: using ad hominem attacks. I’d had it... so I took a break.
I needed it.
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