I have Macs, I have PCs – Win/tel and Mac/tel now. I like Macs better… but PCs are certainly good for a few things. The iPhone – even at 2.5G looks great, though a bit pricey depending on how you use it.

As far as MP3 for business – well they dont really care about music, but some of the more innovative companies will post podcasts… and many companies are having to view video and audio – as a regular data source. Its not just email and Word attachments anymore.

Exchange and remote data scrubbing (I assume it overwrites the data several times – or allows the option for this) is key … AT&T is ok.

This is definitely the PDA/Phone we've been waiting for. There has certainly been demand for this device among business users – hence the warnings to IT and business in general…

Other things that puzzle me is the human nature to be inflexible and the stupidest times. One may think just because something is a certain way – that it will always be that way (and probably alway was). Maybe this isnt so much a though as an assumption… or lack of though.

The iPhone comes out and developers bitch that there is no real SDK…. The SDK comes out and developers bitch that there is no option to run apps in the background … reviewers seem to love to bitch against the 2.5G/EDGE standard … and always fail to mention the WIFI support.

It would be nice to get a real review … maybe this it. Things do change people – sometimes, they even change for the better.

Audio files – check .. can do that too.

Iphone has a slick GUI and a the best mobile browser, which I'm willing to bet will be equaled or improved by another mobile vendor.

Different markets, different devices.

For the record my current devices:

Iphone 8gb model (music, video,)

Blackberry 8310

Treo 755

HTC Tilt

Blackjack II

So I get a sampling of all the major mobile players .. each devices has it's advantages and disadvantages.

I use my laptop less and less the more functionality is added to my iPhone.

Apple has many roads to cross and be dedicated to the enterprise, right now they did enought to get iphone accepted at all. I think it will be awhile before you see companies with 500, 1000 devices.

Exciting still just not sure it's ready for prime time – yet.

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Do you have ANY IDEA what the heck you're writing? That MERELY means that there is a "jailbreaking" hack available if you want to run either (a) unsupported apps, or (b) on unsupported wireless networks. You have to voluntarily download and install the 'hack' in order to jailbreak the phone.

We're not talking about Windows-style viruses, trojan horses, and the like. If you just use the phone as it's intended, without seeking out unsupported hacks to install, the phone will work just fine.

And if you have users who are likely to jailbreak the phones, then you need to deal with them via your company's IT policies for tampering with IT-issued equipment.

However the iphone to me (being a enterprise admin for mobility). This is a consumer device, it's first and foremost an entertainment device. Who wants to have X number of pc's with itunes loaded? Why should I support a device so users can have mp3 / video content? ActiveSync is not THAT great, after 2 years offering it we still have triple the Blackberries due to users can't stand the devices. How is ActiveSync going to effect the iphone battery? When will they offer the device on other carriers? and the kicker .. I feel really great deploying a device that's been hacked days after each firmware update. Real safe for corporate data.

mostly iTards on this site bashing the writer because they don't like what THEY read…(and this happens daily from the same iTards)

as to think any lamer reader can make a writer lose his job…how pathetically small of an ego does a person need to actually wish they had that power over somebody else???

typical lemmings…follow the leader to your demise! dumb and intelectu-LESS is your companion!

idiocracy strikes again!!

keep up the good work elmerD!

Concerning your critics, what a bunch of blowhards! And dummies to boot — hey guys, learn how to spell lose! And if you don't like the column, here's an idea — stop reading it!