Apple Special Event March 6th

[limike28]

There will be free apps available thru the distribution model Apple has in mind. However, even to deliver free apps developers must sign up and pay the $99 developer fee.

Part of me views this as good thing. There's a different between a free app, and a useful or quality app. This may help weed out the "crap" so to say.

[limike28]

While I think it's great that Apple is bringing all that push technology to the enterprise, I think it would be great if they could add that .Mac as well. Maybe not a full push, but there should be someway to sync address book, calendar over the air if they are backed up to .Mac.

[Captain Code]

Originally Posted by Thank The Cheese

- various enterprise updates, mainly to stop people complaining, though I'm sure they'll find something else now.

Don't you worry, they're already complaining
http://www.macworld.com/article/1324...xecutives.html

[Captain Code]

I think this is a great announcement. I already downloaded and installed the SDK and I can't even buy an iPhone here. It includes the mobile Safari so you can test out your websites without having an iPhone.

I hope that the cut they take will go down in the future but the infrastructure they've built is extensive. The only thing that I don't like is that they control what apps you can put on the phone until someone hacks it. I'm sure that they will soon but it's still rather annoying that you would have to do that. They might not let VOIP applications on there through their App Store because it competes with the wireless carriers. They don't define what's a bandwidth hog application. You could argue that Safari is a bandwidth hog application when running on the cell networks though. I don't think there's any point of having a p2p application on there besides the fact that you could do it, but there are plenty of other rich media applications that they might not let on there.

About the $99 price tag. Apple charges for all their developer accounts that give you access to pre-release software. The student developer account is $99. I think their intent with this is to keep people away that want to try and distribute apps you might consider grey-market and illegal.

[Qion]

Originally Posted by a Pontificating Moron

“If you truly want the enterprise businesses, it seems to me you’d put together an entire package for all sorts of products needed in a large business,” he added. “Maybe a major strategy is what’s coming, and they are truly creating a new business model, but so far I’d say there’s no readily apparent enterprise objective.”

Hopefully these sorts of people will adopt the iPhone and Apple's enterprise platform as it becomes popular with the more progressive-minded executives. I think it's only a matter of time, especially with the massive incentive of one hundred million dollars for developers.