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As the official .net zealot on this site, I was downright itching to bite at that. Why did you have to make it so obviously a joke??

If I wasn't a .net guy with a serious outlook 2007 addiction, working at a business which is end to end microsoft, I would so own an iPhone, so it just goes to show that .net availablility does affect some people. Even with the abusive lock in policies it is hands down the most gorgeous phone on the market. Apart from the interface made of pure sex, and the only usable soft-keyboard on the market, the way they handle voice mail is so obviously the way it should be done in the digital age, it is embarrassing that nobody came up with it before them.

I just invested 700$ into a new HTC TyTN II though, so that has somewhat reduced my phone envy.

That sounds like a bummer. It's a beautiful phone alright but the lock in potential has curbed my interest in it so far.

As for .Net, it really wouldn't hurt MS to release a version for the iPhone. It would certainly add credibility to their interoperability claims so I wouldn't lose all hope.

It's a nice implementation, but it's not really unprecedented. I know several people who have have had "visual voicemail" setups for some time now, thanks to push-EMail and the voicemail-to-EMail forwarding that's offered with most VoIP services.

"It's no surprise though, really. Sun has every reason to port it's JVM to the iPhone, especially since it's now being targeted at corporate customers."

Call me skeptical, but how is a phone targeted at corporate customers? That is an individual purchase. Maybe I have just worked at the wrong companies, but rarely, if ever, does a company buy phones for employees, let alone pay the monthly costs associated with the phones. Maybe executives can get away with doing that?

I think you've been working for the wrong companies ;-)

The last three places I worked for gave me a phone and I'm only a lowly engineer and admin.

The again, just look at the popularity of the BlackBerry. I think the Apple wants a piece of that pie.

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Every company I've worked for in the past 10 years or more has provided cellphones to mobile workers. There is none that I know that expects you to use your personal cellphone for their business. What exactly do you mean?

The company I work for bought me a cell phone with email and text messaging capabilities, then gave me a corporate credit card to pay the monthly bill with.

It wasn't all nice-nice on their part though. When that sucker goes off at 3:00 AM, I'm expected to get out of bed, log in to the network, and fix the problem! :-)

I work at a company that provides everyone in IT (where I happen to work) a BlackBerry and they do pay the cost it really has made it easier for us to coordinate work and fix things quicker. Would they get us Iphones probably not unless they can integrate with lotus notes and run Yahoo messenger.

Mono from Miggy perhaps ?

I think someone has Mono working on jail-broken iPhones. Mono's official mac guy was waiting to see what the SDK was like before doing anything else. Given that the SDK license seems to prohibit things like Java or Mono or .Net from being put on the iPhone, I doubt it will be useful in getting Mono on the iPhone.

I think at some point people just have to accept that if you want Apple products, you are not going to have the freedom to use them however you want. This is of course fine for the majority of people, which is why they are popular. But for the people who want to control their devices, its probably best to look elsewhere.