With the latest news from Apple with their "Enterprise" solutions and "SDK", is now time for the iPhone blastoff countdown? After seeing the video of Apple's announcement, I was in awe. The iPhone will now be a fully secure network which links directly to Microsoft Exchange server for push email, push calenders, and push whatever. VPN support (virtual private network) which would allow an encrypted connection for sensitive data transfers. And with the SDK (software development kit) any business can customize their services and software on the iPhone. The SDK looked like is an amazing tool for creating applications quickly.
Businesses could get data from their own servers quickly and securely to their workers in a very portable device. Taking a laptop everywhere is not always convienient. Sales people are perfect targets for these devices. Any job which could need information sent to a remote location.
In addition, Apple looks like they want the iPhone to become a mobile gaming platform. With the full 3 axis accelerometer in the device. Instead of using a mouse or joystick for control, you just tip the iphone in different orientations. So the interface goes from mouse and joystick driven, to finger pointing and tipping.
The repurcutions of this may not be felt until later this year but like the initial iPod introduction, has been ignored by investors as being anything significant.
The iPhone incompasses all of what makes Apple great. It has a rock solid OS based on OSX. A great software development tool in SDK. They even have an iPhone simulator which run on your computer to speed development. Simple access to the cool features of the iPhone, touch interface, video, accelerometer, etc should stimulate quick development of awesome apps. Plus the attention to cool design and simple interfaces. Apple is firing on all cylinders now. Like the Venture Capitalist said, "the iPhone should be bigger than the personal computer". I think he is right.
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Stitch, I believe you are correct on all counts. The SDK is the missing link that will turn the iPhone from the most incredibly cool phone/internet device into a mobile computing platform of the future.
I don't know how much you've seen today, but the developers are clamoring to get their hands on the SDK, and it's bogging down the Apple servers. That doesn't happen that often! I've even read that many developers say it's more than they've hoped for.
In many ways, this is a "momentum changer" that will turn the iPhone into a true hit, the third such hit of Job's illustrious career. This is bigger than the iPod, and the iPod was pretty darn big. But this phenomenon seems to mirror in some ways the ascent of the iPod. When the iPod debuted, many naysayers criticized it for being to expensive. Guess what - tons of people (including our wonderful Mr. Ballmer at Microsoft) said it was just too expensive to ever become viable. Microsoft in fact once again was gloating over their leverage in the business world. All that's going to change now.
Stitch, is this even bigger than the original Macintosh of 1984? Jobs was so excited when he introduced the iPhone in January 07 that he literally said at that time that it was a game changer, and I think he was right on the order of the Macintosh for the new millennium.
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