After sleeping on the iPhone for a couple of days and thinking about my initial thoughts regarding it and its ability to sync with different software, etc., I ‘ve come to the following conclusions/opinions:

iWork and iLife have typically seen refreshes at MacWorld, but they didn’t this year. The rumor mill suggested that iWork was delayed due to some technical issues regarding Apple’s new spreadsheet program (I haven’t seen anything to explain where iLife ’07 is). Leopard is supposed to ship sometime before June. Both of these product deliveries point me in the direction that all three of the aforementioned products will include iPhone connectivity in different ways:

iTunes is the sync interface for the iPhone. Steve Jobs has already stated as much. However, I think we might see a refresh of iCal and Mail with either Leopard or iWork to enable more Outlook users to utilize an iPhone with their Exchange servers. Additionally (going back on my statement from yesterday), we MIGHT see Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (so glad we didn’t have to listen to Roz Ho on Tuesday, although that would’ve been better than the guy from Cingular!) incorporate some hooks into Entourage by the time Office 2008 ships in the second half of 2007.

There’s still so much up in the air here that I think a lot of the claims (my own included) about what the iPhone is and isn’t can’t really be justified.

That said, I can’t wait to ditch my Treo for something that has native Mac sync ability :-D