How does iPhone 2.0 impact the business market?
Less than a year after the iPhone first launched, all of the key issues I had with the device have been addressed. First and foremost, there is now an SDK which allows the development of native applications. And while Exchange integration would eventually have arrived from a third party, Apple decided to bite the bullet and deliver it out of the box. Along with that comes a variety of device management and security features which demonstrate that Apple is aggressively targeting the iPhone for the enterprise.
New features and capabilities
In addition to providing a relatively robust SDK to develop rich, smart-client applications, Apple licensed Exchange ActiveSync from Microsoft to be able to provide the following features:
- Push e-mail
- Push contacts
- Push calendar
- Global Address List
- Certificates and Identities
- WPA2/802.1x
- Enforced security policies
- More VPN protocols
- Device configuration
- Remote wipe
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