Lets see what iPhone news I can find this morning.
Although Jobs announced that no SDK would be release for the iPhone, thee are a number of web applications that have been announced.
Don Farber points out that Etelos has made sure that its CRM App runs on the iPhone.
Don says:
the ideal use for the iPhone and Etelos is “listening to iTunes while sending out a group message to your prospects while riding a ferry across Puget Sound.”
Ajaxian points us to a list of iPhone Apps that is already exhaustive.
Mary Jo Foley has the scoop that Exchange and the iPhone will play nicely. This is an obvious move for Microsoft as it wants to ensure the widest possible distribution of Exchange ( Even if Mitch Kapor doesn’t like it and is building a replacement 🙂 , but I digress)
Continuing the speculation over iPhone licensing, Don MacAskill complains loudly that there are no corporate licensing terms for the iPhone.
He says:
I’m so bummed. We’ve got our sleeping bags ready to go so we can get iPhones for the SmugMuggers. We even have SmugMuggers who flew in from out of town so they could join the party on University Avenue (click that link, it’s worth it). Like most companies, we have a corporate plan with AT&T so we can share minutes, save money, etc etc.
They won’t sell us iPhones. Not one phone, not twenty phones. For any price. At all. Neither will Apple.
Which is really strange. Apple and AT&T should be trying to get as many people as possible to get an iPhone. On the other hand, as one of Don’s commenters points out, AT&T could be waiting for the semi-religious demand to die down before coming out with a business offering. It make sense to get the phone out to the masses.
Talking of an iPhone SDK, Simon Brocklehurst says :
As I’ve said before, iPhone will be an incredible device to develop applications for; and, Apple simply won’t be able to develop all the great new applications themsleves. Neither will Apple have the bandwidth to build one-to-one relationships with many software development companies in ways that make the economics work. So, Apple will need to come up with ways of helping any developer to build great native applications for iPhone.
Scoble comments in Don’s post and asks if anyone is brings a generator to charge everyone’s devices while they wait in line 🙂
This is the smallest subset of iPhone news available. Just a few things I found interesting. More as the news comes in.
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