Seven minutes into today’s highly anticipated iPhone SDK conference, Phil Schiller has dropped a bomb on Apple Campus – the iPhone is getting full MS Exchange ActiveSync supoprt, including:
- Push email
- Push calendar
- Push contacts
- Global address list
- Cisco IPSec VPN
- Certificates and Identities
Basically all the big stuff that’s held the iPhone back from mass corporate adoption. This and a physical keyboard have been the only things RIM BlackBerry has over the iPhone, and it should mean a huge boost to sales for Apple. I think the physical keyboard is less relevant than a lot of people do. Die-hard Blackberry and Treo users will miss it, but most of us won’t mind so much.
Live from Apple’s iPhone SDK press conference – Engadget
Tags: iphone, sdk, exchange, enterprise
Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete’s particular Apple avocations are both around design–interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!
4 responses to “Apple Announces MS Exchange ActiveSync Support for iPhone”
Just few mising things for the entreprise
– Lotus Notes push mail
– ability to use the iphone as a “modem” when o the road with no Wifi
– A barcode reader API linked with the built in camera for vertical application
Not bad at all for this time anyway
i spent 300 dollars on an ipod touch and have connectivity problems with the internet, for 300 dollars one would think you would get more bang for your buck unimpressed first time apple purchaser.