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1. IT|Redux - iPhone First I&hellip  |  July 2nd, 2007 at 10:02 pm

[…] Three days into my new life as a mobile knowledge worker, my feelings of joy and excitement are slowly but surely supplanted by expectations for other things to come, and make the overall experience even better. First on my list is the need for better data synchronization. Today, contacts and calendars are synchronized through iTunes, with the iPhone connected to one’s computer. Tomorrow, I must hope that such synchronization will be made possible over the air, through a .Mac account. Down the road, I would also like such synchronization to be extended to other services such as Google Calendar or Salesforce.com, possibly using applications such as Spanning Sync. Second is the ability to stream music from my iTunes library to the iPhone. While the 4GB or 8GB of memory that come with the device are enough for the songs I listened to the most, my complete music library takes about 60GB, and doubles every 18 months or so. Needless to say, the problem is even worse for my video library, which means that streaming is the only practical way forward. Granted, this will take a faster network, but it should come as no surprise to anyone that the second generation of iPhones will provide support for faster networks, as soon as Apple’s engineers can figure out a way to support them without draining too much battery power. […]

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