Comments on: iPhone Presentations

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:24:57 +0000

You must be pretty relaxed about how the presentations go. Doesn’t your Verizon card ever slow to a crawl?

Anyway, if you have a data card, why not just download a local copy of the PowerPoint file and deliver it from your laptop normally?

I’m not saying Citrix doesn’t have a place, but just that the problem it’s solving isn’t really the one mentioned in the article above, which was very much about ways of presenting on-the-go without the normal tools available.

By: Adam Steinhoff

Adam Steinhoff — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:51:24 +0000

Joby,

You are correct. I would not deliver the State of the Union address PowerPoint slides from a airplane wifi connection.

However, I do have a lot of success doing cloud presentations at conferences with Citrix and my Verizon card. At the end of the presentation, I always like to mention that I did the entire presentation – graphics and all – from the cloud. It always gets a good reaction.

Adam Steinhoff
DedicatedIT

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:39:00 +0000

Yes, some airlines have WiFi. Others won’t allow passengers to move for hours-at-a-time… Any presentation solution that requires a live, working, Internet connection is going to need a way of failing gracefully. Otherwise, it’s too much of a risk. No?

By: Adam Steinhoff

Adam Steinhoff — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:47:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing our link on this blog.

The quick answer is that you will need to be connected in order to get the most benefit from the Citrix Receiver app on the iPhone.

Airplanes are typically the biggest reason people think that they are not going to be able to use a Citrix solution. However, many more are allowing Wifi now. How cool is that?

Adam Steinhoff
DedicatedIT

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:42:24 +0000

Joel, thanks for that link.

I watched the video, and couldn’t work out if the Citrix Receiver requires a live connection to work, or if the PowerPoint file would be stored locally? If it requires a live connection, the ability to deliver presentations on-the-move would, of course, be somewhat compromised. Many of our readers won’t have the XenApp Delivery platform either, but for those that do…

By: Joel Millares

Joel Millares — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:56:44 +0000

If your company delivers Powerpoint to you through Citrix, you now have a 5th option to actually run a true PPT presentation…by downloading the Citrix Receiver app from the AppStore. You can see a demonstration here: http://www.dedicatedit.com/blog/technology-reviews/citrix-apple-iphone-microsoft/.

The wide adoption of iPhone and iPod Touch are prime examples of how Citrix allows people to work anywhere, anytime and on any device.