"Enterprise customers want: push email integration; calendar integration; push contacts; global address lists; VPN; certificates and identities; 802.1x; enforced security policies; device configuration; remote wipe... [Apple is] doing all of these things in the next release of the iPhone software...
You will also get automated notices when apps you have purchased are updated, over the air, all automatically. It will be exclusive way to distribute iPhone applications."
related: Live Blogging (via iPhone) of Apple iPhone SDK Event
"Q: How can companies distribute internal applications to iPhone users? A: We’re working on a model for enterprise to distribute to end users in a private way...
Applications notify you automatically of updates, you can review information and update if you like. The app store is the exclusive way to distribute iPhone applications... can browse applications, or search - wirelessly download any app to the phone; they have also built a section into iTunes [to] sideload apps into the iPhone."
related: Apple SDK Event: No iPhone WiFi Apps Over Cellular Net; No App Distribution Outside App Store, iTunes
"Schiller says it will be easy to convert from Blackberry to iPhone for IT. Less service to manage; actually easier to use, he says. He also says they will give IT managers tools to configure devices, to make it simple to automate the process...
Q: Will IT organizations have ability to disable functionality - like downloading programs from App Store? Steve: 'I hope we have that problem.' Forstall says there are parental controls, to turn off Safari, or other applications, on the iPhone. Could do that for enterprise as well.
Q: Carrier role? Steve says 'we have great relationships with our carriers.' But he also seems to be saying this does not have that much to do with them. 'We define the software on the phone, we run the developer program, we’re distributing the apps. This is our program, and we’re running it.'"
