Comments on: The iPhone made easy for business customers

Apple announced that it has licensed Exhange ActiveSync protocol from Microsoft, which will make it easier for business customers to get their e-mail on an iPhone.

[libertyforall1776]

RIM soon to join the dinosaurs

Without additional innovation, they face extinction -- Apple is
innovating more in the mobile space than anyone lately... I really
expected Palm Treos to trounce Blackberrys, but Palm is stuck in a
rut, and now Apple shows the way forward...

[shycelticwitch]

Of course they are

Apple has been leading the way in computer technology since they
first became a company. Microsoft and the rest are always playing
"catch up"!

[dnottingham4]

Well hopefully many businesses...

will wait until Apple improves the securtity and enables remote management capabilites.

[rcrusoe]

jump through a series of technical hoops?

"Until now, iPhone users who wanted to get e-mail on their
iPhones had to jump through a series of technical hoops."

Excuse me, but what hoops?

I hadn't even seen an iPhone before I got an email from our CEO
from his shiny new phone. The first time he synced the phone to
his computer it set up his work email automatically.

My company "adopted" the iPhone the first day it went on sale. ;)

[NewsReader_]

Still missing Bluetooth and expandable storage

The addition of ActiveSync goes a long way towards making me consider an iPhone but I still refuse to buy one as long as I cannot add flash memory or use my A2DP Bluetooth devices (wireless headphones, car stereo).

This is good news though.

[i,Jimbot]

No Bluetooth?

Hmm, that's funny. My iPhone works fine with my Bluetooth
connections.

[scweezil]

Storage

How much storage do you need...obviously 8 - 16 gigs is not
enough for you?

[AppleSuxLeo]

Still missing Bluetooth and expandable storage

Well said , but I must add I refuse to buy a device that will not allow you to swap out the battery.

[cyberDJ-2038765336053745013836]

Push-To-Talk

The iPhone should have been business-oriented from Day 1.

Up until this point, its just been an over-hyped toy.

Now Apple can start to see some real money roll in the door.

Once Apple adds a Sprint/Nextel-like walkie-talkie feature, I can "entertain" the notion of buying one.

Apple still has some hurdles to overcome before I can take the iPhone seriously.

[scweezil]

Over hyped toy

It has never been an overhyped toy to people that understood it's
potential. Platforms develop over time. You don't seem to get that.
The potential has always been there for this handheld computer to
be a game changing device. It was a game changing device from
day one. What you saw today was the first wave of that
potential...plenty of us saw it from the start. You thought it was a
toy...as did Cnet. You both couldn't be more clueless in your
assumptions.

[Thomas, David]

Don't bother

Buy a walkie-talkie. That is more of a toy than an iPhone. The
iPhone is a hand-held computer with cellular capability.

Go entertain yourself with you walkie-talkie. Hurdles, you mean
the kind where you can't turn the light on behind a thick skull?

[EdSultan]

ActiveSync for iMail and iCalendar

Would ActiveSync also be appropriate for iMail and iCalendar?

[Thomas, David]

Do not understand

Appropriate, or did you mean work with? iPhone 2.0 was
demonstrated using ActiveSync with the calendar, mail, and contact
applications on the iPhone.

Are you asking if the desk top versions work with Exchange? That I
don't know, because I do not use Exchange and never looked at
that. However, if that is your question, you could probably post it
at one of the forum sites.

[mgichg]

Toy?!?

I'm sorry, but any handheld device that is running OSX, whether its the 'lite' version or full version is Not A Toy. A $50 Nokia phone is a toy. This is a platform, not 'just a phone', and most certainly not a toy. The fact that you can make calls, listen to your music, email and surf the net is its most basic features. What comes next with the SDK and the iFund $100M venture capitalist injection is what will elevate this device to a level never attained by any hand held device in history. And this is what will leave every one else in the dust at least 5-10 years behind in terms of competition.
Remember, Amazon was started with $8M, Google with $24M, and look at them now.
You guys call this a 'Toy' yet it has $100M sitting there ready to be invested in its application development future.
I'm guessing you guys who call it a toy never studied economics, or have ever had a vision for the future?
This is gonna blow up to something massive, sell your shares in RIM, its going to be Apple's "iPod phenomenom" all over again, version 2.0

[aquaadverse]

Toy???

Why is everyone acting like this is some kind of breakthrough? 5-10 years behind? There were other devices that did what this device is doing. A nice device, some nice features and good potential. Should I list the money invested in some of the Dot Com fiascoes by VC funds prior to the meltdown? Amazon and Google were the one of the first in a new medium.This phone, while admittedly an excellent piece of electronics and well deserving of praise, is not in that category.
It may very well hurt RIM but Android and other OSS platforms have the advantage of not being chained to one device and distribution method.
Wipe the foam from your mouth. Closed platforms are not the future, and the structure Apple has setup for the SDK is exactly that. Back to your Pom Poms