Mar 06

I’m using the wrong corporate email product.

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Today, Apple announced their new SDK for the iPhone. They also announced the availability of integration between the iPhone and Microsoft Exchange. Here’s the rundown of what it does:

  • Push email.
  • Push contacts.
  • Push calendar.
  • Access to global address books.
  • Remote administration (including a remote lock-out feature).
  • Fast. Easy. Instant.

I honestly believe that what we’ve witnessed today is the beginning of the end for the Blackberry. And I’ve witnessed is the most compelling reason I’ve ever seen to consider jumping off the Lotus Notes/Domino wagon.

4 Responses to “I’m using the wrong corporate email product.”

  1. SilentDragon Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    You don’t know the details of the Blackberry service then. The Iphone/MS is not complete or no where near as secure… Do a true analysis before logging something like this. I can help if you’d like…

  2. Kevin Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Actually, Apple’s perspective is that the Blackberry service is far LESS secure given that it has reliance on a NOC. Also, the iPhone/MS integration will be available in June, per the linked article.

    And yes, if you can get my iPhone to accept push email, calendar, contacts, global address book and remote administration from Domino, then please do help me. If that exists, then my analysis was incomplete.

  3. miniguy Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    The Apple/Lotus announcements were at Lotusphere and Macworld. The iPhone 2.0 software required won’t be available till June at the earliest. Apple was getting hammered for no announced support for Exchange, hence the SDK announcement with Microsoft. IBM/Lotus had execs on site, so i’m not sure why they didn’t talk about Lotus support. Although, the Lotus solution is a webkit app, not using the SDK, so that might be the difference. Lotus wants a released platform before June, then the Lotus piece comes out in version 2 after iPhone 2.0 firmware is released. Pure speculation, but it would make sense.

  4. Kevin Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    @miniguy – I sincerely hope you’re speculation is correct. Let’s face it, the DWA-lite version of Notes for the iPhone doesn’t come close to addressing the same core pieces of functionality that the Exchange version does (push, remote admin, etc.).

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