"But the new iPhone software still lacks capabilities that enterprises need. 'One thing I haven't seen is on the management side. We haven't heard of a strategy for how to manage these devices,' Krishnapillai said.
A potentially even more important omission is the lack of background processing, said Ken Dulaney, analyst with Gartner. 'It desperately needed background processing,' he said. 'You can't do security effectively without it.' That's because for a security program to be effective, it needs to run independently of the applications being audited, he said. But since the phone can't run processes in the background, it can't run security separately from the applications, he said.
Management tools also can't work effectively without background processing, he said. While management tools can use the push notification, that still requires the recipient to take some action. With background processing, the iPhone could have a service like Microsoft's Windows Update to automatically update devices, he said."
