Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Circuits: Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone (fwd)

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

OpenMoko is still unlocked and will appeal to its own niche market.
This update *is* important. So I know that Feds were not allowed to
use the iPhone to connect to government servers at all before. This
update (which includes the fed-popular "Nuke the lost phone" option)
probably changes that.

There is a cost: Apple had to accept that Exchange will be the
dominant push email platform and I'm$ sure MS will be thrilled to get
the licensing fees.

Boy does Exchange suck. I would like to punch the guy who designed the
.pst file and the inept "delayed write" protocol.

jking


On 3/13/08, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Another interesting article from David Pogue.  So what's up with the
> OpenMoko Neo1973 project?
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973#Estimated_time_line
>
> They'd better hurry!  --Mike
>
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/personaltech/13pogue-email.html
>
>
> - From the Desk of David Pogue -
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone
> By DAVID POGUE
>
> Before you start reading this, a word of warning: this
> column is about the iPhone. If you're one of those people
> who are sick and tired of hearing about the iPhone, then
> scroll on while you still can.
>
> Then again, if you're one of those people, you've got much
> bigger problems than this column. Maybe you'd better take
> six months off to explore the Serengeti.
>
> That's because last week, Apple announced iPhone 2.0. It's
> not a new phone model (although that will be coming this
> year, too)--it's new software for the existing phone. And in
> my considered opinion, it will be an even bigger deal than
> the iPhone itself.
>
> The new software, slated for the end of June, will have two
> parts. First, it will tap into Microsoft Exchange, the
> e-mail distribution system used by hundreds of thousands of
> corporations. You'll get "push" e-mail, meaning that
> messages appear in real time on your iPhone. And when
> anybody changes your calendar or address book on your
> computer at work, your iPhone will be automatically,
> wirelessly updated, wherever you happen to be.
>
> All of this is already on the BlackBerry, which is Apple's
> obvious target here. Without an actual keyboard, the iPhone
> won't kill off the BlackBerry entirely (although I do like
> the way the on-screen keyboard forces iPhone people to be
> super-concise). But it will carve away a certain chunk of
> the BlackBerry's market.
>
> The big knife is Part 2 of iPhone 2.0. That's the SDK--the
> Software Development Kit--which Apple has released in
> beta-test form. The idea here is that any programmer can
> now write software for the iPhone. Not illicit, hacky apps
> like people have been writing so far, but authorized,
> tested, legitimate software, much of it free, that can tap
> into all the features of the iPhone.
>
> There's a video of Steve Jobs's announcement
> http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/rtp20e92/event/index.html?internal=fj2l3s9dm
>
>
> About two-thirds of the way into it, you can see demos of
> five iPhone programs that software companies came up with
> when given two weeks with the SDK. There was an AIM chat
> program, a sales-force automation tool, and so on, all
> good-looking and natural-feeling on the touch screen. And
> there was an Electronic Arts game that exploits the
> iPhone's accelerometers, which detect how you're tilting
> the iPhone in any dimension; in this game, you navigate the
> 3-D world by tipping the iPhone forward, back, left, right,
> up or down.
>
> I can't tell you how huge this is going to be. There will be
> thousands of iPhone programs, covering every possible
> interest. The iPhone will be valuable for far more than
> simple communications tasks; it will be the first
> widespread pocket desktop computer. You're witnessing the
> birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS
> X, iPhone.
>
> Sure, there are add-on programs for the Treo, BlackBerry and
> Windows Mobile. But they'll never achieve the ubiquity or
> popularity of iPhone apps, because Apple will preinstall
> the iPhone Apps Store right on every phone. That's an
> online catalog of iPhone programs, which you can browse,
> download and install wirelessly, wherever you happen to be.
> That's several thousand fewer barriers and steps than you'd
> encounter on the other smartphone platforms. That, and the
> fact that the iPhone is already the second most popular
> smartphone (after the BlackBerry), spells good things for
> the success of this initiative.
>
> Software companies and programmers can charge anything they
> like for their programs--Apple keeps 30 percent of each
> sale--but I expect many or most of the apps will be free.
> The one thing that raised my eyebrows, though, is that Apple
> intends to be the exclusive source of all iPhone apps. You
> won't be able to get iPhone add-ons from the usual
> shareware sites like Downloads.com, Shareware.com or
> VersionTracker.com, or even from the developers' own Web
> sites. (Or, rather, you will, but you probably won't be
> able to do that effortless wireless finding-and-installing
> thing.) Once again, Apple is doing things its own way,
> tradition be damned.
>
> On the plus side, this arrangement means that Apple is
> responsible for approving the quality and safety of each
> program you install. It also means that it's easy to find
> some program you've read about, since there's only one
> place to look. And I'm guessing that Apple will make paying
> for the for-fee programs effortless, like clicking BUY SONG
> on the iTunes store--even fewer barriers to entry.
>
> All of this, of course, will have the side effect of
> enriching Apple; Apple's shrewd that way. But aside from
> the usual Apple-bashers online, nobody will mind. The
> release of iPhone 2.0 is over three months away, but I'll
> stick my neck out and make a prediction: it will be a
> gigantic success, spreading the iPhone's popularity both
> upward, into the corporate market, and downward, into the
> hands of the masses. iPhone 2.0 will turn this phone into
> an engineering tool, a game console, a free-calls Skype
> phone, a business tool, a dating service, an e-book reader,
> a chat room, a database, an Etch-a-Sketch...and that's on Day
> One.
>
> In short, it's not going to be a pleasant summer for people
> who are sick of hearing about the iPhone.
>
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