EAS, or Exchange ActiveSync policy support could make using an iPhone in a corporate environment much easier. EAS policies help system administrators better handle remote wiping of devices and adding password protection to the device. It can also help IT manage polices like disabling the phone, disabling Wi-Fi/Bluetooth access and other functions. If you're someone who works in IT for a company that deals with sensitive data -- medical and financial records, for example -- you have to be able to lock down devices. EAS policies are a great way to do this.

This can mean a lot of things, so my presmption is that Apple will introduce a method to connect your iPhone to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that you wouldn't normally connect to. This way you don't have manually configure VPN settings -- that the VPN connection will happen automatically when you want to bring up a protected site or server. If Apple has a way to do this, it'll make a lot of IT people happy.

You know, some days, I wonder about Apple. Like this one: they introduce networked calendaring via EAS in the iPhone OS 2.0, but then they don't give you the ability to create meetings. That's annoying. So in the iPhone 3.0 OS, you can now create meetings. I guess they had to do this, since they're introducing CalDAV support as well. Support for multiple networked calendaring protocols and the inability to create meetings from the iPhone would be astoundingly dumb. So, I'm glad to see Apple avoided that. Finally. The only question is, what took so long?