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Well… all they’re saying so far is that PowerPoint 2008 will export to iPhoto, so you can sync to iPhone/iPod, to show as a slide show on the device. I’m not sure what this is describing other than eliminating a step in getting slides into iPhoto, or maybe 2 steps for some folks.

… and when you read their promo copy for this, you know they have had many iPhone integration meetings… not just with the software people, but with the sales concept teams as well. This is nice to see. They realize that folks like Google have people working overtime on RMA’s (Rich Mobile Applications) for iPhone, and that applications as simple as PowerPoint don’t have a comfortable future in the Mobile landscape. In other words, salespeople are wanting the kind of media delivery, and juiciness, that iPhone offers, even though most of them are carrying Windows Mobile or Blackberry handsets… for now.

And I won’t even speculate about this job posting on Apple’s website… ’nuff said here.

Key corporate people advocating the iPhone keeps coming up in the press recently, like in this press release about SAP’s iPhone website… "SAP is breaking with precedent by introducing versions of the new software that are compatible with the iPhone ahead of ones for mobile devices that businesses traditionally use. These include Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, Palm’s Treo and devices that run on software from Microsoft.". This one is really pretty amazing, and one of the most pleasing paragraphs in the thousands recently found online for the "Fastest Growing Keyword On Google in 2007".

I’m sure Microsoft is working on native apps as well, even if their objectives with them aren’t nailed down yet. From a development viewpoint though, I still think that Safari apps are going to where it’s at for most of us.

Especially with storage, caching and high speed data on the way… we are approaching an immense amount of rich media on the web, using the iPhone, with a huge variety of content, applications, and multimedia… it’s looking more like a consensus all the time.