The One Feature That Would Make Me Buy an iPhone

I love my Pearl. Best phone I’ve ever had. But syncing the calendar and contacts to my Mac is a pain – I can’t use Bluetooth to do it (and I’ve never really understood why – is it because RIM cripples it at Rogers’ request?), which means using a cable, of all things. What is this, the middle ages? But more importantly, if I want to allow an admin to work on my calendar or contacts and have that sync to my phone in the field, it’s not possible without spending serious $. This is a no-brainer if you spend the bucks on an enterprise level installation, but that’s not me, and that shouldn’t be the Pearl. I assume this is the way RIM wants things, but this seems to me to be a market ripe for disruption. Apple could solve all of this. Use the generally moribund and overpriced .Mac service to sync calendar and address book data to the Web and then wirelessly to an iPhone – that would be a neat trick. I’d pay for that, and others would too, I bet.