- This is one thing I haven't heard debated much. Will the iPhone ever get any native spreadsheet and word doc apps? Will you be able to use Google docs with Safari (which IMO would probably be as good at least as Docs to Go, with plusses and minuses on both platforms).
This seems like a necessary item for business success. Being locked out of all attachment viewing you receive in Mail would make a laptop a necessity on otherwise very light business trips. Sometimes I have little flights where all I needed was my Palm because I could bring all my docs with me, reference them, and easily havd them off to others.
Maybe Keynote will make it to the iPhone?06-19-2007 02:31 PMLike 0 -
Maybe Google could make a Google Apps attachment handler widget to automate this? Or Apple has the Automator tool in OS X, if they could ise that to create a script to automate this it would help. Basically something mre elegant.06-19-2007 02:40 PMLike 0 - This seems like a necessary item for business success. Being locked out of all attachment viewing you receive in Mail would make a laptop a necessity on otherwise very light business trips. Sometimes I have little flights where all I needed was my Palm because I could bring all my docs with me, reference them, and easily havd them off to others.
Yet, another false dichotomy
If there is any integrity to the questions you pose, you must be consciously aware that they cannot and will not be effectively answered until the device is released plus time to fully exhaust its possibilities. Otherwise, this is just another innuendo and rumor thread. The internet needs more of those, right?06-19-2007 03:26 PMLike 0 -
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Blackberry has been out for how many years and generations of OS and the Contacts database still cannot correlate with the Calendar to schedule appointments. Talk about fundamentals.
Will iPhone grow into an enterprise-class email machine, assuming further development? Maybe, but no one's crystal-ball can predict the future ... which leaves nothing but speculation and rumor at this point.06-19-2007 04:59 PMLike 0 - Per Apple's marketing: "a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email"
So to me desktop-class email means attachment support.
This isn't a BB, which initially had a very specific focus and never claimed to be a media player. And this isn't an attack on the iPhone, but again a legitimate question. No false dichotomy or ulterior motives for the question. No need to question the integrity of the question. It's just a question.06-19-2007 05:15 PMLike 0 -
OS X
All the power and sophistication of the world’s most advanced operating system — OS X — is now available on a small, handheld device that gives you access to true desktop-class applications and software, including rich HTML email , full-featured web browsing, and applications such as widgets, Safari, calendar, text messaging, Notes, and Address Book. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background. This software completely redefines what you can do with a mobile phone.
Without a specific claim of attachment support, you haven't been misled. One's definition can differ from another.06-19-2007 05:21 PMLike 0 - Who said there was no attachment support? Point is, without a specific claim of format support, any response to your question is out on a limb. And, until either reviews are published and/or iPhones get into our collective hands, it's all speculation until then. Wish it was otherwise, but ...06-19-2007 05:37 PMLike 0
- C201, your point is well taken that we don't know until we know.
But in defense of braj, his question is more or less: "Does anyone know if the iPhone can handle office docs?" It's obviously an indirect question meaning: does anyone know/has anyone heard/did I miss the scoop?
Sometimes people can't keep on the dozens of iphone stories and leaks out there and posting here is one way to cut threw to the answer.
A more resonable response would have been: "I haven't heard this answered yet." and left it at that...06-19-2007 06:59 PMLike 0 - I think one of the posters in this thread turned a simple question into an argument for no reason. :shake:06-19-2007 08:38 PMLike 0
- braj made a legit questions.
CR01 decided to try to front.
Stupid and petty.
Now back the questions.
Attachment support should be in a docs2go client app of some sort. It cannot just be "load it via google apps and safari"....um you are not always connected, and need to be able to work offline.
Rich HTML email != attachment support. Two completely different things.
I dunno what it will have..but we will know in several days.06-19-2007 09:25 PMLike 0 -
- But you have argued unnecessarily also. You're quite condescending to others. You can state a point without all that!06-19-2007 10:57 PMLike 0
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