The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
When it comes to mature security, Gartner says that “many security advocates require at least two things: 1) time to let the platform percolate within the community of hackers to demonstrate it can resist threats, and 2) access to the platform's insides by third parties, which can assess whether additional add-on measures are required to make the platform secure (as a form of check and balance).
Gartner says that “Apple has not provided sufficient depth in this area to determine its security profile relative to that of a PC” and says the by contrast, the BlackBerry today is considered the gold standard for security, having had numerous reviews by many country governments and militaries.
Therefore, “comments from market watchers that the iPhone will compete head-on with the BlackBerry are premature.”
Gartner also looks into the addition of WPA2 Wi-Fi and Cisco VPN support, looks at the iPhone Configuration Manager and questions whether “iTunes can pass enterprise tests as a mission-critical application because it was developed primarily for consumer music transfers” among other issues.
In terms of the iPhone Halo Effect, Gartner says that “Enterprises will find that the Apple Xcode development environment will begin to creep into their organisations” and that once “Apple has this foothold for important developers, the inclusion of Mac desktops and notebooks will begin to be requested if not implicitly accepted.”
Therefore, “enterprises must evaluate such longer-term impact of a commitment to iPhone and may need to determine the consequences of admitting the Apple development environment.”
In addition, Apple’s true commitment to “Enterprise Support” is yet to be determined.
MobileMe is praised although the cost is questioned, and the “bottom line” for Gartner is that Apple still needs to be examined to see if it lives up to its claims but that “the iPhone
is a phenomenon in the computing industry and should be recognized as such.”
The full report with much more detail is available at Gartner’s site.
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