My iPhone question at Stack Overflow

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It started one day while I was using my iPod Touch: wouldn't it be cool to have XXX function (from our internal desktop application) available on iPhone as an native app.

I had that idea because (A) I think our current bulky desktop internal 6+ years old application suite need a major face lift, and (B) instead of continue our waterfall development methodology, which usually resulted in project canned after tens of people spending months on something that no user cares, I hope that we can start doing lots of tiny project with 2 weeks iteration cycle using Agile methodology.

Oh, can I also want to find an excuse to use XCode in the office.

After researching, I found out that pretty much NO COMPANY do iPhone native intranet application because no company wants their internal development need controlled by Apple who tends to kill cool app like Google Talk. And since our company ultra concern about security and safety, the phrase "using jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch" is the same as saying "please fire me".

So I did plan B: using ComponentOne iPhone Studio to do a iPhone optimized intranet web application. I spent 2+ weeks and is about to finish it. My supervisor seemed very excited about it, so hopefully we can turn it into a long term project.

My question is: does any of you tried writing a iPhone application (either native app or web based app) for your company's internal use, and what is the technical and political challenge?


DK