Last week Apple announced they have licensed the ActiveSync Exchange Push technology from Microsoft. I had to read the article twice before I believed it. Steve Jobs swore up and down he’d never license MS technology for the iPhone. Maybe he finally realized there’s a lot of money to be made in competing with RIM and Windows Mobile in the enterprise.
Personally, I think this is great. This may be the final nudge I needed to get an iPhone. Okay, maybe not. First I’d need it to run on a real network, not the slower-than-molasses-in-February AT&T data network. At least activesync represents the last technological barrier, the carrier issue is just financial/political.
Apple also announced this would be included in the June update for the iPhone. Happy syncing!
