If you are like me then while the rumor mills were bugging you, you were focused on intel about mass deployment. Todays announcement of the iPad was a huge tell about much of what administrators will need to know, but obviously not all – only time will tell with some things.
Little can be easier than deploying a MacBook (or a thousand) if you have the right tools at your disposal. Not so with an iPhone. It comes down to that pesky configuration utility and docking the thing to get the xml file onto it (or visiting a site from a browser). As we’ve seen, for 1 or 2 devices the deployment is a dream. For 1,000 to 2,000 maybe notsomuch. And given that they are priced so much less than a laptop and can do much of what a school might need to do then I would anticipate a number of educational purposes and therefore mass deployments.
But no