What iOS 4 does -- and doesn't do -- for business
Found on Inforworld on Monday, 21 June 2010
The biggest new capability -- multitasking -- is for all intents and purposes not available, and it won't be until individual apps are updated to take advantage of it.
Apple has made much of iOS 4's unified inbox, which lets you see all your emails in one list, as well as switch to specific accounts to see just their emails. The unified inbox is fine, except for a big flaw: You can't tell what account each message was sent to.
All shortcomings aside (and that Apple got inspired with the global inbox from Thunderbird), it's somewhat interesting to see that there is no lawsuit. Not from Apple, but from Cisco who use the term IOS since the 80's now. Considering how trigger happy Apple is as soon as a word starts with an "i", it's nice to see that not every company is that aggressive.