Preview: iPhone 3.0 hopes from an IT pro

05.06.2009
As we are in the final run-up to the 2009 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), it is again time to take a look at what IT managers and developers can expect from next week's event.

My colleague Dan Moren in iPhone 3.0 OS, and that reminded me that there were quite a few items in for the iPhone 3.0 OS that were presented near the end.

Since quite a few of these are near and dear to IT's heart, I thought this would be a good time to talk about a few of them. It's worth noting that each of these items was on that slide I mentioned, but I'm not sure at this point how Apple plans to implement them, so this is where I use my imagination a bit.

LDAP is support is important for anyone in an LDAP environment, (Apple's Open Directory, Microsoft's Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Novell's eDirectory, etc.), as it allows iPhone users to access contact info that is stored in the company directory, rather than relying on their own contacts. This would allow iPhone users to not have to use third party software, (like ) or have to copy a company's global address list to their iPhone to have things like email addresses and phone numbers for coworkers on the device.