I'm not even about to begin linking to all the stories on the new iPhone (this is a fairly thick link farm for you). I just want to point to a couple of things from the keynote speech yesterday...
- I think I heard that the U.S. Army was one of the organizations involved in the beta program
- 35% of Fortune 500 companies were involved in the beta (notes from Engadget coverage of keynote "35% of the Fortune 500 has participated in that beta program. The top 5 banks, top 5 securities firms, 6 or 7 top airlines, 8 of 10 top pharma, and 8 of 10 top entertainment companies."
- I think they nailed the pricing this time
- I was stunned when they were showing all the apps and talking about how short the dev times were - like two weeks - so who will build the first successful learning app?
- I was knocked out by their solution to background process management (OK..that's not really sexy but damn important)
- I am soooo signing up for MobileMe
- Full support for Exchange
- **This is one of my favs (again from Engadget): "We got some other feedback that enterprises want another way to distribute apps -- they want to distro them for themselves, so we're adding enterprise app distribution." Enterprises authorize iPhones, and then create and distribute apps on their intranet that can only run on those phones. Users sync their custom apps through iTunes. Yes, iTunes is apparently the new enterprise tool. As Paris Hilton would say, "That is hot."
Enterprise support, better pricing, faster, smaller, 3rd party apps - how about just plain old innovation? Here is the thing - a lot of organizations talk about innovation but Apple actually delivers - they have actually turned it into a part of their brand - OK..more later, lots of catch up to do and still digesting 3G iPhone implications.
I really like what Mark has said, The new iphone Ad now targets college students, they have to create some learnig app too atleast encouraging those students to learn more not to distract more.
Posted by: jacky | April 24, 2009 at 05:08 PM
Clark,
I hear you on the pricing but I'm still on board with it since I can see how production costs can be driven down while switching to a new network that gets you added benefits can cost more...the copy/paste thing is just baffling...do I just not know enough about programming to understand why this is so tough?
Mark
Posted by: mark oehlert | June 11, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Mark, the price is good, but it's $30/mo for 3G unlimited data, vs 20 for Edge, extra $240 for the 2 years, kinda dulls the price advantage.
Still missing copy/paste (WTF?).
On the other hand, with 3G and GPS, tres' sweet. Wavering...
Posted by: Quinnovate | June 11, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Craig - I saw that one and yes, you are correct, they crossed the finish line first - although I did say "successful" and I really meant 'when will we see some innovation in the learning/training marketspace take hold and crank out some stupendously cool apps?" ;-)
Mark
Posted by: mark oehlert | June 10, 2008 at 05:51 PM
elearning software creator dominknow Inc., has just announced that with the latest version of it's LCMS instructional designers can kick-start iPhone courseware development. dominKnow’s Learning Content Management System 5.2 supports iPhone SDK beta 2, allowing for complete courseware delivery to Apple’s Safari mobile browser platform. Courseware administrators can also enable/disable a self-enrollment option for iPhone/iPod touch users.Pretty cool. Check it out at www.dominKnow.com
Posted by: Jennifer | June 10, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Actually, they did show the first learning app -- Modality Learning (http://www.modalitylearning.com) showed an app to help medical students study anatomy in the run up to the main iPhone announcement.
Posted by: Craig | June 10, 2008 at 10:28 AM