The issue I have with this is that enterprise features are fairly well defined. It's not rocket science. In fact, many of these features already exist in their Mac OS applications (mail, ical, etc...) and just need to be implemented in the iPhone. Whereas, features that appeal to consumers are hardly defined and always in flux. It seems like Apple has a real advantage over RIM in this arena. So all they need to do is implement common enterprise features. I'd love to be able to flag my messages and have multiple signatures based on which account I'm using in my iPhone.

that was my first thought. I'd like to send myself an SMS and let myself have root access and change all the config files to do what I want them to do.

This is an excellent point, however, the problem with videoconferencing over the internet is not so much bandwidth but with the fundamentally broken application of video coding methods. Current videoconference codecs such as H.264/AVC, On2, etc... were not designed to work over packet switched networks. The reason your Skype video gets pixelized and breaks is not because you don't have enough bandwidth, it's because the packet loss that occurs over the internet causes the linear dependency chain of the codec to drop frames which the subsequent frames cannot recover from. You can EASILY do HD (720p) videoconferencing at well under 5Mbps on a dedicated network. There's only one company that I'm aware of that has begun to address this problem with a fundamentally different coding principle by using the H.264/SVC standard as opposed to AVC. We'll see where this goes.

This is painfully depressing for me. I am a member of Fly Clear. There's no question that this whole system is just a way for people to pay $100 to skip the security line. As I describe it to people, it's "First Class" for the security line. The background checks and vetting and biometrics are all just a smokescreen for being able to pay to skip the line. It in no way offers any additional security and we all just end up going through the same x-ray metal detectors and x-ray machines. On the other hand, as someone who gets on a plane every week, it's completely worth it. Until now... Earlier in the year, my personal info was stolen from an unencrypted, unsecure laptop from our HR outsourcing company, Administaff. I got a nice letter from them apologizing for it. Now I'm two for two.