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Posted by Rod in Apple, Communications at 3:04 pm on Friday, 14 December 2007
Two interesting phone/email bits today.
Apple working on improved Exchange support for iPhone
Probably via Active Sync. Wonder if Apple have licensed that yet? Though they could use WebDav ala Entourage.
I had heard that Voda had the NZ rights to BB (if there is such a thing) so I wonder if the ‘WorldMode’ wording is important.
If iPhone plays nicely with Exchange is BlackBerry moot anyway? With iPhone push email what happens to RIM?
Roll on 2008. It’s shaping up to be a big year.
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Rod, I understand that BB are working on a iPhone type interface as are lots of others such as LH and HTC who have them now but not as good as the iPhone/Touch.
I see Apple are getting heavy in Singapore over people unlocking iPhones. To me Apple have everything to lose and nothing to gain by -
(1) not having a 3G iPhone until June
(2) will have to improve battery life for 3G
(3) linking it to expensive contracts
By the time June comes around there may be lots of clones that millions will be happy with.
Apple’s approach to locking things down is understandable; this way they are able to control the user experience for which they are famed. But by making the phone so closed in nature they are shutting an otherwise compelling device out of the business/enterprise market (link to Forrester Research on Why Enterprises won’t adopt the iPhone http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/12/13/top-10-reasons-it-wont-support-the-iphone/)
The question I would have is does Apple care about this market, or are they thinking of a more consumer up approach?
Rod, thought that this might interest you given Xero…
“Quicken to appear as iPhone web service
Intuit is prepping a web-based version of its Quicken financial software as an iPhone-oriented online service, the company has revealed this week.
While the service will run on multiple mobile devices and full-sized computers, its initial format is designed with the Apple handset in mind and should appeal to a young, technically-savvy audience that may never have used dedicated financial software in the past, Intuit says. The functionality will resemble the basic retail software and allow users to download bank information as it’s updated and track spending.
Instead of an up-front cost, the company will charge a $3 monthly subscription fee to use the service. An introduction is scheduled for January 8th, a week before the start of the Macworld San Francisco expo on the 15th.”
Xero pretty much works now on an iPhone and we even jump on to do things on Blackberry.
I’m not sure you can get a BB in the Telecom CDMA flavour.
Even if you could, and if they set up the APN infrastructure, etc. to make it happen, there’d be a very small market for people wanting a Blackberry but not caring about roaming.
“WorldMode” presumably means a GSM device that doesn’t work on the Telecom NZ network?