Thanks Jonathan, I am sure you are right….BUT, allowing Apple a foot into the Enterprise arena will be a great thing for our company….Hitting on all cylinders is better than just a few….and hopefully this will bring attention to developers such as yourself as these make industry press and your clients may begin to ask for your help in developing for their firm….the Halo affect works wonders.
John > On May 22, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On May 22, 2015, at 10:08 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Next, IBM has jumped on board to developed a few business Apps for the Apple >> Watch. At this point functionality is in it’s infancy but within a short >> time the Watch will become very important in simplifying our lives. > > I had to weigh in on this, John, as I have been following the Apple-IBM app > news, being in the mobile app space myself. The apps that IBM has been > developing in cooperation with Apple will not impact the average user that > much. These are all apps that leverage IBM’s strength in big data and large > corporations. None of the apps that has surfaced in this project have much to > offer the consumer and the small business owner. > > I would be pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong, but they all seem to be > geared toward solutions that enable big companies to leverage large amounts > of data. That is, after all, the world that IBM lives in. IBM has never had > much to do with "the little people,” especially since they got out of the PC > space. I expect their efforts to only indirectly impact the common mobile > device user. > > Jonathan > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > [email protected] > > Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group > Next Meeting: 5/26/15 > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
