[Macworld]

Post your comments for iPhone ready to take on Blackberry with Enterprise push here

[montgomery_burns]

What about Notes and Tasks on Exchange? Will the iPhone synchronize with these?

[k2director]

This is going to make a big dent in Blackberry's hold on Enterprise.
Add to that the ease of writing iPhone apps, and I think the iPhone will easily be the leading smart phone in terms of sales by 2010.

[montgomery_burns]

Will it be a free update for owners of current iPhones? Will iPod Touch also receive these capabilities?

[vgiguere]

If only the iPhone was available in Canada ....

[MorrisTheCat]

Those were some impressive announcements today. I have to think that RIM is pretty concerned right now. This is a serious shot across their bow.
The SDK looks great from what I've read too. There are going to be some amazing apps coming out for iPhone and iPod Touch. Speaking of the touch, I'm really glad it will gain these capabilities as well (minus some enterprise features of course) I don't have either an iPhone or iPod touch, but will most likely get one later in the year. I have hope that by that point, I will be able to completely toss my Palm, as the touch will have apps like Vindigo and finance management programs available for it. That will be sweet.

[cphoffman42]

I love that the ad at the bottom of the page for me is for "The All-New BlackBerry".

[MacBoy]

Add this to PostPath's (www.postpath.com) robust Exchange alternative and you have an extremely compelling enterprise environment that's Borg free too... ;)

[samrod]

The iPhone SDK just redefined the iPhone from "merely" a paradigm shift in mobile computing to a radical leap ahead in mobile productivity for academia, enterprise, scientific, and even government sectors. The possibilities and combinations of third party hardware and software boggle the mind. Someone can create a simple Dock connector to import raw data from various types of scientific instruments' USB ports and display it as charts or graphs, maybe even integrate it with a network databases for real time updates (seismographic, meteorological, aquatic, etc data). With the nice, high quality screen, post-production houses can track the status of scenes in a movie so that everyone involved has a detailed breakdown of storyboards, scripts, and shots, with video and sound, updated in real time over WiFi.

If someone is clever enough, they can even turn the iPhone into a virtual paddle where you hold the iPhone like a paddle and bounce an invisible ball on it, using the vibrator to simulate the paddle smacking the ball. How about a doodling program that you erase by shaking the iPhone like an Etcha-Sketch? Something similar was in the demo. You can have marble maze game in which you guide a marble through a maze by tilting the iPhone. The possibilities are just endless.

If anyone thought that competitors were catching up to the iPhone, they've just been lapped... again.

AAPL, you're my friend. You put a smile on my face when I'm down, and money in the bank when it's low. I guess you're more of a parent, thank you!

samrod

[TAllenSr]

OK, I dropped the $20 for the APPS for the Touch last time. I did not "love" having to do so, but at $5 per app, I could justify it. This time it better be $2 or something very low like that. How much should we have to pay for the PRIVILEGE of spending MORE money on new apps?

[chrisolander]

At this point? I'd just like the ability to delete all emails in my inbox or trash with one button, rather than scrolling through hundreds a day and deleting them one at a time. The only alternative currently is to just shut off iPhone receipt of mail from three different email accounts, which would be silly to do. Apple -- just give us a "delete all" button, okay?

[lantzn]

How does Entourage work with Exchange Server? Can this Activesync license help make Entourage work better with Exchange? I hate how things just don't work the same as is does with Outlook on our PC. Every now and then I have to jump from my Mac over to the PC to do something I can't do in Entourage.
http://www.microsoft...03-06EASqa.mspx

[wike2004]

Did Apple say whether it will provide full device encryption on the iPhone? That would be required for our organization to accept it as a mobile device. All the enterprise enhancements they mentioned are great, but without the encryption, it won't happen here!
http://Please make it so.

[bynkii]

montgomery_burns said:

What about Notes and Tasks on Exchange? Will the iPhone synchronize with these?

From what I can tell, anything supported by the version of ActiveSync Apple uses. Notes sync may not actually be supported by OTA ActiveSync, there was some talk about this on one of the Exchange Dev blogs.