Today in iPhone, item number 17. We have 37 listener emails, 32 voicemails, 27 delicious items,

a couple of rants for me, and zero chance getting through it all.

Welcome to today and iPhone. I like it a lot. Today, iPhone.

Hey, Gawley! Oh, yeah.

Zoom is getting some traction, and Steve Jobs goes to Macworld, and he pulls out this iPhone.

Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Rob, and this is a Today and iPhone podcast.

Before we get into today's show, I need to warn any IT managers out there.

If you are not planning on implementing

support for the iPhone, you can go ahead at the end of this sentence and just stop the show, go into iTunes

and unsubscribe from this podcast, because what I'm going to say here in the next little rant,

you're going to do it anyway. So it might as well save yourself the time and go ahead and unsubscribe now.

For all you IT managers that plan on supporting it, kudos to you and the next rant has nothing to do with you guys.

This rant comes out of three different articles that were recently put up.

One over at MacNN called iPhone may not mix well with corporations.

Another over at business2.com called The Coming Battle, Apple's iPhone

versus corporate IT departments. And then the third is from the day.com entitled Firm Set to Hang

Up on Apple's iPhone. What all of these articles are talking about is that certain IT managers

take it upon themselves to make corporate decisions on what products will and will not be supported in a company.

In other words, the IT managers are making decisions rather than carrying them out.

It's not the place of an IT department to make decisions.

It's a place of the IT department to carry decisions out. One of the quotes over

at the day.com really cracked me up. It was about a vice president of technical operations,

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