I use BIS for one of my work accounts (I have a few) and I’ll get the email sometimes sooner than 30 seconds. And I don’t even use the blackberry email account that you can use to forward email. Just a basic pop3 account.

I decided to forward an email from work to my gmail account set up on my Blackberry. Time elapsed from hitting th esend nutton to the buzzing of my Blackberry indicating that I had received a message, < 30 seconds. Oh yeah!

In fact in the first comment on this thread I said’

“Amen. Good first step but a ways to go.”

Have a nice day

Do you even read before you respond? I have said several times that i hope Apple gets it right. I have also said that until they have proven they have it right, i withold judgement. And a video put out by Apple is not proof. Just ask all those who were early to upgrade to Leopard.

And as BGR has pointed out, there appear to be some limitations ot the SDK that are just being discovered.

I am probably wasting cycles saying this to you, especially since I have said it before, but a viable Enterprise solution from Apple will only make RIM better but Microsoft, Palm, Symbian, etc. If not, they deserve to fail. But we have a long way to go before that happens.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/iphoneroadmap/

Competition is a good thing and is pro-consumer but RIM and the BB are no competition for Apple and the iPhone. Apple brought a handheld computer to the match and all RIM has is a smartphone which is beholden to a single failure point NOC for all of it’s data. Poor RIM still hasn’t been nor will be able to catch up to Apple and the iPhone even with Apple giving them 6 months head start between the iPhone being announced and the iPhone being available for sale. Now what 15 months later and still poor RIM still hasn’t been nor will be able to catch up to Apple and the iPhone. Apple”s iphoneroadmap is not “competition” it’s complete industry changing dominance which is sure not a positive for RIM or it’s BB’s.

You should note that I have said that I hope Apple gets this right. Competition would be excellent. The consumer, whom you have expressed concern for in the past, woud only benefit from competition spurring innovation.

But an announcement does not a solution make. Let’s see it before we annoint it.

I have noi idea what you are ranting about but the reason Blackberry’s were adopted quickly by th eFeds is that they were considered secure. As inth President carries a BB, or at least his staff carries his. This hurt Sprint in the Federal space as their Treo email solutions were not considered government spec. It was more about the handheld and how email was sent to it rather than the email server used. Goodlink was trying ot get the approval for secure operation with the feds when I left Sprint.

There were concerns about data routing to Canada. I cannot recall exactly how this was addressed. I seem to remember that a data center was set up in the US for the government’s secure traffic. In any event, the only handheld approved for use in Fed agencies was the BB. Since I left that space in 2006, that may have changed.