If you registered with Apple or AT&T to “find out more” about the iPhone, you likely received the mass email that includes a number of steps to take to prepare for the iPhone’s arrival on June 29th.
Perhaps the most interesting is that it states an iTunes account will be required to set up the phone.
It also details how the iPhone will sync with your Apple or Windows machine all smartphone-style.
The email breaks down how to prepare for the iPhone via specific tasks, including the contacts, calendar, email, photos, music and iTunes programs.
It’s the email, contacts and calendar that interest my die hard Mac friends most.
Apparently native support for smartphone-esque tasks for Apple machines will be a much-needed relief from what’s available right now.
I’ve heard from many long-time Mac users that syncing with smartphones has always been an exercise in patience.
Palm is nice enough to include Mac software with its Treos or you can download it from Palm’s site. The dashboard is clumsy, though and not as easy to use as the Windows version.
RIM does not include Mac software with its BlackBerries. Finding the software on the RIM site was no easy task and installing it and using it was even worse.
There are a few third-party applications, such as PocketMac, that let you use your Mac with Pocket PC-based devices. While they work, they do not provide as seamless an experience as native Windows machines.
So, for the Apple users out there who’ve been frustrated by the lack of real support for the Apple platform, the iPhone looks to solve many of those issues by syncing with your email, calendar and contacts programs natively.
But the email also says that an iTunes account is required to set up the iPhone. Does that mean it won’t work until you get it home and hook it up to your machine?
While some may think that requiring an Apple account is lame, I say it is to be expected.
Most iPhone users are going to already have iTunes installed on their machines anyway, as the iPhone’s music-playing capabilities is likely one of its many selling points.
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Apple (almost) always does things right. You’re slowly becoming an Apple blog. Now all you need is a Mac (or thirty three) for yourself.
Hey Joe. No I’m not becoming an Apple only blog, it just happens that there is a lot of things “Apple” going on the past week or two and I have a lot to say about it
As for getting a Mac, who says I don’t have one lying around? Hehe.