Apple sent an email today to MobileMe subscribers apologizing for the rough transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Calling the service “Exchange for the rest of us” and using the word “push” when there really isn’t push wasn’t a mistake they innocuously overlooked in my opinion.
While this is an early assessment, all seems well with the iPhone, Exchange and ActiveSync for the most part.
I’m waiting, too! Unfortunately I’m not getting a 3g iPhone. iTunes cannot connect to the iTunes store to authenticate my iPhone and get it back on the AT&T network after my firmware upgrade.
At this morning’s iPhone SDK announcement, Apple put the end to the question of the iPhone’s viability in the enterprise by announcing Exchange support by way of Microsoft’s ActiveSync technology.
ActiveSync will synchronize contacts and meetings with the iPhone’s native address book and calendar, leading to the inevitable question: when is OS X’s Mail and iCal […]
Although slated for a February release, the iPhone SDK will be released next Wednesday (March 6th). Of interest: specific mention of “exciting new enterprise features” in the invitation sent to reporters.
This has to be an iPhone/ActiveSync/Exchange announcement. If it’s not, there’s going to be some disappointed current and potential iPhone enterprise customers out there.
If Wednesday’s […]
Apple may be looking to close the iPhone/Exchange/ActiveSync loop itself depending upon how you read into this recent Cupertino job posting (emphasis mine):
Job Description
Requisition Number
3161520
Job title
iPhone Windows Outlook/Exchange QA Eng
Location
Santa Clara Valley
Country
United States
City
Cupertino
State/Province
California
Job type
Full Time
Job description
The iPhone Quality team is looking for a motivated, highly-technical Exchange test/sync engineer with excellent problem solving and communication […]
Today Apple announced that the iPhone will go open allowing third parties to create applications for the device.
Another possible Exchange mail server solution for the iPhone.
Regardless of Apple’s plans, iPXSync promises to bring Exchange Server synchronization to the iPhone next month.
How important is synchronization with a Microsoft Exchange by way of ActiveSync (or another technology) to your iPhone purchasing decision?
