Canon Photo 5 Competition, now open for rego
I just received this press release through, and I know I get quite a bit of photography related traffic so I figured I would pass this on for my Australian photographer friends.
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iPhone 2.0, my take on it all
Well Steve Jobs’ famous WWDC keynote address is all over and done with for another year, you can watch it here, and the new big product launched from it is the iPhone 2.0. I’m not going to bore you with all the details of the iPhone itself, by now I’m sure you know enough about it, but I will talk a little about the changes that have been made to the way it works and why I think Apple have made those changes.
There have been rumblings around the internet ever since Steve’s announcement of the new features / changes made to the iPhone, some of these whines have been about the lack of a video camera, the lack of MMS messaging, and still only having a 2mp camera. wah wah wah.
Is it a mixup in the Apple development team that these things haven’t been implemented, or has it in fact been deliberate?
In my opinion I think Apple has deliberately left those things out in order to focus wholly and solely on making the iPhone 2.0 an actual Blackberry killer. Why would they want to compete, it’s simple, so they can get a larger presence in the 9-5 business world and expose more and more IT departments to Apple products to show them that the Apple is actually capable of being a business product.
There’s an awful lot of Windows machines being sold every day of the week, cant say I blame Apple for wanting to get in on that action.
So what will make the iPhone competitive against the Blackberry.
- Push Email - Blackberry has had it for years, and it just plain and simple works. No one wants to waste time connecting their handset to the internet and then having to read their emails online via crappy webmail, you want your email sent to you as if you were sitting in front of your computers email app. The Applie iPhone 2.0 now has this.
- Push Contacts - If you’ve been a Blackberry user in the corporate world chances are your company has an exchange server and connects to your Blackberry and sends through updates and changes to your contacts, if you’re like me and have a Blackberry that isn’t connected to an exchange server you have to do this yourself, it’s a pain! The Apple iPhone, along with the new MobileMe web service (mac.com replacement), has this and to go one step further you can sync it all across multiple Macs as well, ie. home, office, iPhone
- Push Calendar - Basically the same as the Push Contacts, but with a calendar. If Cath and I both have iPhones we don’t have to muck around syncing calendars with each other, it’ll just get done through our MobileMe account.
A quote from Steve Jobs himself, “Think of MobileMe as ‘Exchange for the rest of us,’” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Now users who are not part of an enterprise that runs Exchange can get the same push email, push calendars and push contacts that the big guys get.”
These couple of advancements make the iPhone a hell of a lot more competitive in the corporate world, there is a lot of money to be made in the corporate world and it wont surprise me to see a lot more Apple Macs being sold into this world.
Meanwhile I just pre-ordered mine from Optus, I believe Vodaphone are about to start taking pre-orders as well…….rumour has it Telstra will be making an announcement in the coming days.
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