Good news for business people today. Apple announced the long awaited, and much needed, enterprise features for the iPhone. Many of us we insistent that the iPhone was not complete, and could not truly be embraced by business users without them. What am I referring to?
- Full Microsoft Exchange support, including push email, calendar, integration with contacts and full notes and meeting support
- Remote wiping of the iPhone
- Secure WiFi support
What is interesting to me is how Apple chose to integrate with Exchange: via ActiveSync. Instead of just connecting directly via the Exchange MAPI protocol, like Outlook, ActiveSync, Microsoft’s sync technology is being licensed by Apple. ActiveSync first made an appearance via the PocketPC OS, released when Microsoft chose to battle Palm in the PDA wars of the mid to late 1990’s. Even up to the current generation of ActiveSync, it’s remained a buggy, not always stable sync platform.
I hope that Apple has had an opportunity to stablize ActiveSync, and fix the problems Microsoft never could.
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