My boss is meeting with a a group from Apple (including mostly sales,
but also a couple engineers) to discuss what features the iPhone needs
for us to actively support a deployment on our campus.

They had some specific questions about our infrastructure and
capabilities.  They also had these three questions:

1.  Would you consider deploying iPhone throughout your organization
without "over-the-air" synchronizing of calendar and contacts?
2.  Would you consider deploying iPhone throughout your organization
without web access to Java or Flash-based web applications?
3.  Would you consider deploying iPhone throughout your organization
with an email delivery solution that is comparable to push technology,
but not push by definition?

#1  My preference is to sync via Bluetooth.  I don't see a need to
spread my data across our whole wireless network when Bluetooth is
there just waiting to be used.  WiFi would be my second choice.
Either way, it has to be encrypted.

#2  No Java and no Flash does not impact anything we're doing on
campus.  It would, of course, be nice to support them, but it's not a
priority for me.

#3  I don't know what this means, but if it means another server
supporting another protocol, I'd rather they didn't do it.  Let's
stick to POP/IMAP -- two things we know and already support.

I think I'm also going to slip a comment in about how nice it would be
to have some custom Javascript functions that would give us access to
read/write from the contacts, bookmarks, notes, etc.  Those functions
would need to be enabled/disabled by web site/domain for security
purposes.  But it would sure be nice to have access to some of that
from within our web apps if the user allowed it.

Any comments on those items?  Any comments/wish-list items that I
might want to add to the list?

The meeting is next month, but I need to have my input back to my boss
within a few days.

Thanks,

Brian McLaughlin
Administrative Computing
George Fox University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"iPhoneWebDev" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to