Apple delivers Exchange and more in iPhone SDK
It’s been eight months since the launch of Apple’s iPhone and at last it’s getting enterprise e-mail announced today by Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller at the iPhone SDK special event. The list of enhancements was impressive and as expected included Microsoft Exchange support.
Here’s a list of the enhancements:
- Push e-mail
- Push calendars
- Push contacts
- Global address lists
- Cisco IPsec PVN
- Certificates and identities
- WPA2/802.1x
- Enforced security policies
- Device configuration
- Remote wipe, in case the iPhone is lost or stolen
Following much press speculation Apple has licensed Exchange ActiveSync from Microsoft which will be built in to the phone itself. This will allow the iPhone to connect out of the box to ME servers for secure push e-mail, contacts, calendars and global address lists.
These upgrades will be available in the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade due to make its appearance in June 2008.
After paying an initial setup fee of $99 developers will be able to sell their applications in the App Store, and will be able to set their own price. They’ll receive 70% of sales revenue, Apple retains 30% for credit card, hosting and marketing services.
Scott Forstall, vice president of iPhone software summarized:
“Starting today, we are opening up same native APIs and tools that we use internally to build all our iPhone applications. This means third-party developers can build native iPhone applications using the same (tools) that we do.
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March 6th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
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March 7th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
God I can’t wait for this thing to arrive. Just sucks that the Dev Kit is Mac Leopard only. PC users and people with very slightly older Macs will not be able to run it to develop applications.