In reading some iPhone “news” articles from Google, I saw comments on several different pages about iPhailure.com AKA iphonemobilesolutions.com. All of this site’s comments about the iPhone are negative.
Well, a WHOIS lookup shows iPhailure.com, written by “Jordan Corning,” is owned by his company: “ITR Group, Inc.” The ITR Group web site says on the home page that they are a “management consulting and technology services company;” on their services page they say they offer “mobility solutions” to automate processes and “[b]y extending specific functionality to handheld computing devices like tablets, PDAs, or Smartphones.”
So, this group has a definite interest in Microsoft, they work a lot with portable devices and presumably make money consulting with portable devices, and they are spamming iPhone articles with FUD.
Hey John,
I think you may have some common misconceptions about my blog. While I will admit that I have been hitting the “comments” links pretty hard, it is all in an attempt to try and get my blogs name out there. The whole point of the blog is to encourage Apple’s potential deployment of enterprising software hence the “iphonemobilesolutions.com” which was the original URL. However, I found that “iphailure.com” was catchier and drove more traffic to the site. This, coupled with the fact that the iPhone has, up to this point, been a failure for mobile enterprise, is what sparked the name change. In the future, iphonemobilesolutions.com may be used exclusivels as the iPhone grows more business friendly.
If you read some of the posts, you will find that the articles are more neutral than you think and offer some different ideas for enterprising solutions the iPhone may offer in the future. I encourage you to check it out and understand that although I do work for a company that primarily uses Microsoft, I am simply trying to improve mobile enterprise solutions by encouraging the iPhone, undeniably the new Poster Boy of handhelds, to jump in the game.
Comment by JC — July 9, 2007 @ 2:22 pm