[MW Forums]

Market research and analysis firm Gartner on Friday published a report that says 75 percent of IP-based phone purchases over the next five years will be a waste of money. more

[brycesteiner]

Did I miss the Mac part of this article?

[sandbag1]

If IP phones work on a Mac, there's your answer.

[jmincey]

Macworld is a technology site with a focus on Apple and its products. This means that industry developments (as well as legislative and economic developments) which may have an impact on Apple or its customers falls within the scope of this publication.

[Nightveil]

I read the headline and immediately thought of video phones. Then I thought of an old Dilbert cartoon where he buys a video phone and has to wait until someone he knows buys one, too.
Totally irrelelvant, but it amused me. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[hayesk]

Heh heh, they've been promising video phones since the 1950s. The problem is that each person wants everyone else to have a video phone but not themselves. I certainly don't want people to see me when I answer the phone 8:00am on Saturday morning.

[bjojade]

I would REALLY like to see an interface that would allow my office desk phone to be integrated into my computer as well as my bluetooth cell phone can be. When I get a call on my cell phone, it pops up on the screen showing who is calling, and keeps a log of all the calls.
My office phone system has no such feature, and I can't find any that do, unfortunately. There are a few single line options, but nothing in the small business phone systems.

[mindblade]

We use Cisco VOIP around here...and it is so true.....
Folks want phones to be phones....not the extra funky stuff. I wish I could get back the money we spent on fancy 7960's ...twice the price of basic 7912's.
That being said, VOIP is cool...and with Jon's Phone Tool, you can integrate your address book and desktop into your VOIP phone. It rocks.
-Matt