One way to deal with the iPhone battery life

There are times in life when you have to bite your lip in an elevator for fear of injecting yourself into a conversation to which you are not a party.

Management Consultant #1:

(In a loud voice). How do you like your new phone?

Management Consultant #2:

(Cradling what appears to be an Apple iPhone in his right hand). “It’s good. You just have to manage the battery.”

Management Consultant #1:

“How bad is it?”

Management Consultant #2:

“I have the screen dimmed down, and the email isn’t searching all of the time. If I want my email, I just pull it down.”

Management Consultant #1:

“Oh.”

Management Consultant #2:

“It’s still cool though.”

Management Consultant #1:

“Really?”

As for the rest of us on the elevator, all we could think of was that this Luddite had turned his new iPhone into a Palm 7. “Pulling down your email” to manage the battery? Does Apple know that the average enterprise client base can’t work like that?

Being a consumer-focussed company, the better question might be — Do they care?

MRM

2 responses

  1. JVL says:

    I’m sure the Blackberry Bold is a far more enterprise related product from your favourite Canadian CEO’s anyway. Just enough to keep the Jesus phone coveting at bay for another generation.

  2. Mark McQueen says:

    JVL

    You are probably right about the preference enterprise clients, but I feel a blog coming on. Just tried the demo Bold.

    MRM

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