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By: Barry G

Barry G — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:14:25 +0000

I am always amazed at these announcements. I suppose Apple wants to improve their street cred wtih the corporate community- who largely turned up their nose at the iPhone. So - good, they are putting some muscle into that. But the release and keynote say nothing about the benefits to the people who bought the first few million iPhones- SOHO and individuals. I think it is great that they are going to build in sunc to Exchange- but how about us poor schleps who just sync to our local Outlook and use POP for mail? Will I finally get to sync my Outlook mail file? How about telling the software NOT to downloaed everything on the server (like that 10 MB clip someone sent). There is a lot to like about the iPhone, but every time I pick up mail, I miss my Treo. I cannot be the only single user scratching my head about this- nevermind teh lack of 3g speed.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:38:34 +0000

Dear Dan, Push email is a big deal. It’s not just a matter of having your email straight away.
(1) Your sent items get sync’d, which doesn’t happen with many other systems.
(2) Contacts/Address Book and Calendar are sync’d wirelessly.
(3) You never have to sync using a cable again!
(4) The phone can be remotely wiped if lost or stolen.
(5) Much of the administration can be centrally managed.

This may not be a big deal for a home user but for serious work, these features are a must.
For example, the office can add or change a calendar entry and it soon appears on your phone.

Not sure why people think push email is such a big deal. I’ve had an iPhone since the first day they went on sale …………

By: Darcie

Darcie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:53:19 +0000

As soon as they come up with a Iphone that works on the Verizon network I will be the first inline. AT&T’s coverage is terrible where I live and many places I go to, Verizon is not.

By: Daniel (Palluxo! Editor)

Daniel (Palluxo! Editor) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:33:04 +0000

As Steve Wozniak stated, iPhone 2G is still an old technology. We should be talkin gabout iPhone 3G, but Apple is one step behind competitors… well, hope you read Woz’s interview.

By: Terrin

Terrin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:01:22 +0000

I disagree that Microsoft’s success over Apple’s success had anything to do with not being tied to one developer. Back in the day, business people used IBM. IBM backed Microsoft. Business people simply weren’t going to toss their long standing relationship with IBM aside for a product from a possible fly by night company. Times of course change, but it takes time.

By: Terrin

Terrin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:55:47 +0000

I will never ever ever use anything from AT&T. With that said, I am using an iPhone running on T-Mobile. It is a bit of a pain waiting for hacks to be able to use the updates, but I love the phone. Moreover, around me, it sounds better on T-Mobile then on AT&T.

By: Arcfault

Arcfault — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:50:27 +0000

The problem with the argument that by not going with Apple that IT people are not being tethered to one company is a false state of mind. While the box may be built by one of several manufacturers, the OS is made by one vendor. That argument is true if they are shopping between Apple, Windows, Linux or other OS based systems for the same tasks and not to different division in the company (i.e. Windows for sales force, Apple for in-house design and Linux for servers). most of the time it is simply IT departments unwilling to try other systems in order to keep the status quo, instead of trying to find more efficient or more stable systems.

Anyway, it is impossible to understand the ramifications of the unveiling as this was a roadmap event and demo of some of the new features coming out. Apple always keeps a lot of cards up their sleeves and usually those are the more tantalizing ones.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:14:35 +0000

Exactly, ATT was the deal breaker and is the only reason I got a Touch not a iPhone. Love the touch. When it is open to other carriers I will consider the switch, not til then.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:02:50 +0000

Not sure why people think push email is such a big deal. I’ve had an iPhone since the first day they went on sale, and have set it up with my ISP mail accounts (Comcast) as well as setting up a Yahoo account. I haven’t seen much of an advantage with the Yahoo account. In fact, what would end up getting pushed is more offers for Viagra and porn!

By: Bosco

Bosco — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:54:05 +0000

At&T is not just a huge impediment. It’s a deal breaker. I already have Sprint service which I’m locked into and pretty happy with. I have three additional phones on the plan for family 450 miles away. We use the phones for business and the free in-network minutes for calls to each other. With 4 phones between us, we used over 2000 free minutes last month. Sprint also gave me a discount on their unlimited wireless data card for my MacBook Pro. So I’m going to uproot all that for an iPhone. Nope.

I’m actually quite happy with my iPod Touch, Sanyo M1 flip phone, and Palm TX. I can see the TX giving way to the iPod Touch completely when 3rd party apps become available. The flip phone is also a winner because it’s convenient to carry wherever I go and has a decent MP3 player built-in, great for walking the dogs when I want a phone with me.