First, The iPhones I’ve played with are quiet great. Definitely the best outside the Sidekick for web browsing.
The 3rd party apps for Blackberry are so varied though. I don’t ever expect a medical terminology or legal professional dictionary to be available for iPhone for now. I never expect a real time futures market push browser on iPhone because the iPhone won’t have secure enough encryption for brokerages to trust it to write apps for it. I highly doubt iPhone will have integrated GPS geotracking for farmers on tractors. Citrix push server virtualization. Major corporations have fully mature salesforce applications suites. Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, Salesforce.com and a few other database IT corps have fully mature DBA, administration and sales suites for RIM PDAs.
Will Apple ever go after the Novell and IBM Lotus market? I doubt it.
Will Apple ever acquire DoD encryption certification? Not any time soon.
Will Apple have true encryption? Hard to say yet.
Just as Apple survived for a decade due to a small core of niche audio and visual software developers and their user base clung to Macs, Blackberry is never going to lose the corporate customer base. I’m sure hip small companies in AT&T coverage areas will roll over to iPhones and write it off for IT expenses, but I really can’t see IT departments in large companies shelling out the cash for 3G iPhones for quite some time.
RIM 8120’s cost $99 per unit if you buy 100+ at wholesale. You can use VOIP over WiFi and 3G today on the Cingular network.
8GB iPhones cost $299ish each for 60+ pieces at wholesale right now. Jobs and Cingular are shafting customers by crippling the WiFi and 3G Voip options.
First, The iPhones I’ve played with are quiet great. Definitely the best outside the Sidekick for web browsing.
What do you like about the Sidekick browser? What makes Sidekick's browser better than the iPhone's Safari browser? Seems to me that the reviews leave a lot to be desired... like full page views, non-mobile web pages, etc.
I don’t ever expect a medical terminology or legal professional dictionary to be available for iPhone for now.
Why not?. Epocrates just demoed their software for physicians at the Apple iPhone SDK announcement event at Apple that they wrote using the iPhone SDK in under two weeks... and their engineer said they were able to add new functions that their other products don't have. That software includes a medical terminology dictionary, a Physicians desk reference of drugs, drug interaction, drug prices, dosing, disease, ICD9 Codes, Medicare Part D, and CME. I suspect it will be one of the first applications available.
"By putting so much computing power into such an elegant mobile device, Apple has opened up tremendous opportunities for application developers," said Kirk Loevner, chairman and CEO, Epocrates, Inc. "The technology and software in the iPhone OS will allow us to create new and innovative applications that help improve patient safety and provide healthcare professionals with an unsurpassed user experience."Legal dictionary software is already available for OS X... putting it on an iPhone should be simple. The iPhone 2.0 OS will natively support SQL-lite (although there's no reason someone shouldn't be able to port the complete MySQL to the UNIX underlying OS of the iPhone.)
I never expect a real time futures market push browser on iPhone because the iPhone won’t have secure enough encryption for brokerages to trust it to write apps for it. . . .
Will Apple have true encryption? Hard to say yet.
Again, why not? It's not hard to say at all. OS X already natively supports 256 bit AES encryption. OS X.3 and above are Common Criteria Certified. The iPhone runs OS X... and there is nothing inherently preventing Apple from implementing the encryption on the iPhone.
Will Apple ever acquire DoD encryption certification? Not any time soon.
That's strange. The U.S. Army is installing OS X Macs to "enhance their computer security." Do you suppose it's because they are not secure? I doubt it.
I highly doubt iPhone will have integrated GPS geotracking for farmers on tractors.
Integrated? Not for a while. GPS is a power hog that drains batteries fairly rapidly. However, there's a plug in module that adds 1/2 inch to the bottom of the iPhone that I saw demonstrated at Macworld in January... it is a complete GPS that integrates with the Google Maps. As of the show, it required a jailbroken iPhone to operate. How long do you think it will be before they rewrite the interface to work with non-jailbroken phones?
Major corporations have fully mature salesforce applications suites. Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, Salesforce.com and a few other database IT corps have fully mature DBA, administration and sales suites for RIM PDAs.
Salesforce.com was also present at the Apple SDK event and demonstrated their software on the iPhone... also with new functionality and written in less than two weeks.
"The opportunity to use the innovative iPhone OS platform to deliver compelling Software-as-a-Service applications to mobile users is empowering to us, and ultimately, our customers," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com. "They are asking us for new ways to harness the power of Force.com to access their business information on any device regardless of location."
Looks as if Salesforce.com's app is also an application for the iPhone that will probably be available on the roll out of iPhone 2.0 OS in June.
RIM 8120’s cost $99 per unit if you buy 100+ at wholesale. You can use VOIP over WiFi and 3G today on the Cingular network.8GB iPhones cost $299ish each for 60+ pieces at wholesale right now. Jobs and Cingular are shafting customers by crippling the WiFi and 3G Voip options.
Cingular no longer exists, it's AT&T Wireless. ;^)>
I do want cut and paste functionality though... It would help posting at FR when I'm not at my computer. I also would like voice dialing but it is not hard to tap a name on my favorites list.