Apple to allow iPhone Mobile development. 

Apple also said it will roll out tools for developers to create software for the iPhone, news that was accompanied by a pledge from legendary venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers to set up a $100 million “iFund” to back iPhone software start-ups.
This takes the iPhone from being not really in the running in the enterprise to being very much in the running and gives Blackberry / Business Phone a serious challenge,” Van Baker, an analyst with market research firm Gartner.

Apple said the iPhone would work with Microsoft’s Exchange software for managing business e-mails, contacts and calendars and “pushing” that information to hand-held devices. “We are doing all of these things with the next release of iPhone software,” Phil Schiller, vice president of global marketing for Apple, said at the company’s headquarters.

Is this the challenge from Microsoft to Google Andriod the new open source Mobile operating system. ? Will they be able to face it. Windows mobile is not such a sell , but I phone enters the business domain. What could limit it is development would be done only on Macintosh systems.

Getting people knowing mobile technology as well experts in Macintosh would be a challenge in itself in the resource crunch market with these skill sets. Again at 99 USD for registration if I had a Macintosh I would have surely bought this out because I can imagine the business opportunity available with it and of course the style statement attached to it.

http://www.apple.com/ for IPod
code.google.com for andriod
http://www.microsoft.com/ for Microsoft