According to a Forrester Research survey of North American businesses, these are the top-supported handheld operating systems -
percentage of businesses
73% - BlackBerry
46% - Windows Mobile 6.x
40% - Palm OS
39% - Windows Mobile 5.x
28% - Windows CE
12% - Mac OS X ( iPhone )
8% - Symbian
7% - Linux ( Android )
2% - Other
This is the first positive step I’ve seen taken by Apple towards making the iPhone a possibility in the secure world of the business enterprise. The rumors have been flying for a while that Apple had licensed Microsoft’s ActiveSync so the iPhone could function on Microsoft Exchange.
The introduction of the iPhone SDK this week verified those rumors. We can’t get too slap happy yet though. Apple has only licensed the protocol. The functionality is not there and won’t be for a couple of versions later in the iPhone. That means at least mid - 2009.
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