After months of optimistic speculation and chatter, Apple at last released the iPhone SDK and, thus far, to rave reviews — even if it doesn’t complete IT’s checklist of requirements for business users. “This is what everybody wanted,” Tony Meadow of Bear River Associates is quoted as saying in iPhone SDK exceeds developer expectations. InfoWorld chief technologist Tom Yager writes enthusiastically that, “the enterprise half of Apple’s new mobile strategy speaks to IT, and therefore to me as an IT journalist.” Apple’s iPhone software strategy moves me. “iPhone 2.0 brings iPhone and iPod touch many steps closer to parity with the high-end BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Nokia QWERTY and stylus handsets that are enterprise mainstays now.” Indeed, Nancy Gohring of the IDG News Service reports that enterprise bans on the device may be lifted, thanks in large part to the Microsoft Exchange support iPhone 2.0 will bring when it becomes available in June. Even still, “as welcome as the SDK and enhanced business-oriented features are, people still have more they want Apple to offer,” editor at large Ephraim Schwartz writes. Related guide: How to make the (new) iPhone work at work. Software Development