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3 months ago
in CIO’s Say ‘No’ To iPhone - Call It Non-Business And Say Touchscreen Keyboard Is Impossible on TechMiso
You love Apple so much it hurt to read this.
Consider -- just for a second, please -- that these people might actually have a hard time using an iPhone. You don't (whooptidoo!) but you're not responsible for making purchasing decisions in a major company.
Consider that the people saying these things have actually done the research inside their respective companies. Consider that they might actually be using real data to try and explain that they find the keyboard an issue... Rather than your survey-of-one.
And while I'm at it, where, in any of these reports (or their quotes) do they call it a `toy`?! A "nice to have" means a luxury. Like a hot tub. Doesn't help you do any extra work but it's a nice thing to have in your office.
Tip time: If you want to do tech reporting well, you have to be a little less sensational when somebody says something mildly disparaging against something you'd like to marry one day. This is just hackery. At its worse.
Consider -- just for a second, please -- that these people might actually have a hard time using an iPhone. You don't (whooptidoo!) but you're not responsible for making purchasing decisions in a major company.
Consider that the people saying these things have actually done the research inside their respective companies. Consider that they might actually be using real data to try and explain that they find the keyboard an issue... Rather than your survey-of-one.
And while I'm at it, where, in any of these reports (or their quotes) do they call it a `toy`?! A "nice to have" means a luxury. Like a hot tub. Doesn't help you do any extra work but it's a nice thing to have in your office.
Tip time: If you want to do tech reporting well, you have to be a little less sensational when somebody says something mildly disparaging against something you'd like to marry one day. This is just hackery. At its worse.
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4 months ago
in Serving Django via CherryPy behind cherokee on yml's blog
Why run it through cherrypy? (Serious question)
I run my django sites through the built-in SCGI server into cherokee's built-in SCGI handler. Seems like less effort and each site is only consuming about 20megs of RAM.
I run my django sites through the built-in SCGI server into cherokee's built-in SCGI handler. Seems like less effort and each site is only consuming about 20megs of RAM.
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Ahto
I'd also like to know this. I was planning on deploying cherokee as load balancer for plain django SCGI instances.
I only decided on the iPhone after putting a QWERTY device through its paces. You could say I had an unbiased position when making the choice between Apple's touchscreen and a QWERTY.
And, you're right, I wouldn't call my company 'major', but IT procurements in my agency are in fact my call -- not a bunch of cash, but near a million USD/year -- give or take a $100K depending on capital purchases and the YEN/USD conversion.
Back to your comment: More of what I read/hear from IT management folks out there is heavy-leaning in the RIM/QWERTY direction. Maybe those folks 'have' researched the iPhone, maybe they haven't. Frankly, what I saw was very little research and more off-the-cuff opinions of the iPhone and its 'perceived' typing limitations.
Here's a 'toy' quote for you:
Ken Davis, IT director over at TV Channel Five--
"It's an interesting *toy* from a personal viewpoint..." Kudos for Ken though because he goes on to say he would consider the iPhone if Apple made improvements to its hardware and software -- he however only specified Microsoft Exchange as one of those required improvements -- which is in fact now supported on the iPhone....
*pacificIT <http://www.pacificit.ca/>* puts it spot-on in his comment
[above]--
"On behalf of entrepreneurs already using it and those now playing catchup for Apple on the backend network security side, my money's on Apple. Sorry dinosaurs. Sorry RIM."
And as for your 'tip time' on 'reporting well' -- Thanks, but no thanks. My point still stands: smart companies are the ones that give the iPhone a serious look now or get left behind.
Have a great UK day!