Ok, I know what you’re thinking. Roy, the iPhone is almost a year old and you just now want one? False. I’ve wanted an iPhone since it was released, but I just didn’t want the iPhone that Apple had released. Sure, it’s sexy and you can touch it with 20% of your fingers (compared to a measly 10% with competing products). Unfortunately, there are tons of things wrong with the device that other phones get right and have gotten right for years. These glaring omissions (copy and paste being a prime example) have forestalled my purchase. In the meantime, since the iPhone’s launch, I’m on my third cellphone. Today’s announcements move me to finally take the plunge.

Today’s announcements regarding the iPhone SDK and the Enterprise applications give the signal that Apple is finally getting with the program. The biggest thing Apple needs to overcome in making the iPhone as ubiquitous as the iPod is the stranglehold that RIM has on the business world. From the product’s announcement, roughly a year ago, to now, the lack of push email and basic time saving functions like mass-email deletion made the iPhone impractical for corporate use. However, today’s Enterprise announcement means that some of these features may finally show up on Cupertino’s glass and aluminum-clad baby.

These features along with the possibilities opened up by the SDK mean that the gap between the Blackberry and the iPhone may get a lot smaller. The only problem: that gap won’t begin to close until June when the 2.0 firmware is released that will enable all this goodness. With MacWorld scheduled for the beginning of June as well, the month of the summer solstice (and this blogger’s birthday) may be a big one.

Source: Engadget

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