The SDK announcement yesterday included no reference to Google Apps working on the iPhone. While I’ve been using IMAP to check my Google Apps Email for awhile now (at push-like 1 minute intervals), it is a bit of a pain to connect to the Calendar and Addressbook through the EDGE web interface. I would much prefer to use the native apps like Exchange now can. I also know that I can sync my desktop Calendar and Addressbook.app to Google Apps and sync it periodically with the iPhone…but this isn’t really how I’d like to work (well since 1998) – and the point of the iPhone’s Internet connectivity is to be able to receive updates in real time.
The iPhone doesn’t even support Leopard Server’s iCalendar or LDAP Addressbook. This has to change – post haste. It would be really surprising if Apple neglected the standards-compliant Google Apps in favor of Exchange. Will we see an update soon? I hope so! Right?
