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Posted by: serrano_yejo

Need verification!!!! Some of the people in this forum have good contacts in the business. I was in the Apple store in Boca Raton Town Center Mall and I overheard an employee (dunno if it was the store manager) explaining to a group of "suits" that w/ the iPhone Apple will let you add an unspecified number of emails thru a web-page and the email will be sent to the phone (he kept talking about other features that Apple has in place for battery life.

Wow!!! Is this Apple version of BIS. Thinking about it... Isn't BIS a pop3 server w/ push... Can Apple do this , this easy? If Apple does this (let's say it will) how the iPhone will stack against WinMo phones, Treos, and BB? Can someone verify if Apple is planning their own version of BIS or "AIS"

Posted by: briareus

POP3 is one of many interface options for BIS. I haven't heard anything about push email on the iPhone.

I'd really want something more along the lines of BES myself... Not in terms of the BES server requirement but the features.

Posted by: scaredpoet

If anything, Apple may have to license a push e-mail service if it wants to offer it, perhaps from Good Technology, RIM, Seven or Visto/NTP. So many of the current players have (or claim to have) patents on the idea that they would be entering a legal minefield if they decided to go it alone.

Then again, Steve Jobs is so pigheaded he may find no problem with spending lots of money on really good lawyers. Or he could just say something like "who really wants push e-mail anyway, when you can have the iphone poll your e-mail accounts?"

The plain truth is, we won't know for sure what the iPhone will really offer until it's released. And it may be as successful as the iPod, or it may be a flop like the Newton. Both products had equally big hype to it, and they both went down very different paths.

Posted by: ralarosa

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Originally Posted by scaredpoet

Then again, Steve Jobs is so pigheaded he may find no problem with spending lots of money on really good lawyers. Or he could just say something like "who really wants push e-mail anyway, when you can have the iphone poll your e-mail accounts?"

Whatever Jobs says, the Apple groupies will believe it.

Posted by: scaredpoet

No doubt. Evidently, Jobs thinks 3G is unnecessary fluff.

Nonetheless, I thoroughly enjoy my iPod. The mac at work? Not so much.

Again, we'll see about the iPhone.

Posted by: Phydeaux

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3G is unnecessary fluff.

It is when your target market is with carriers who can't seem to get a fire under them.

Judging by what we've seen thus far with the iPhone, I highly doubt Push tech will be part of the equation, instead probably relying on a "always on" java client that would be the equivalent to the OS X Mail app.