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I just read two interesting articles about the Apple iPhone and how it will integrate heavily into the Mac OS X Tiger operating system. This will give users the able to sync your calendar, contacts, tasks, email, files, bookmarks, and whatever else. How much integration and how heavily Apple is counting on this to sell the phone is still to be determined.

Apple took the latest iteration of its proprietary smart phone hardware and software in the early summer of 2005, slapped it together inside an enclosure reminiscent of a fourth-gen iPod, and hit the road. The objective at the time was to showcase the device’s software to potential wireless partners and then appoint contractors to assess network requirements and the feasibility of certain features. Apple was reportedly talking with T-Mobile and analyzing MVNO possibilities and they’ve “become very good friends”.

Within months of those talks, however, Apple broke off all contact with T-Mobile and its outside contractors. Word spread that Jobs at the highest executive level was genuinely unhappy with some of the phone’s hardware specifications, which he believed hampered the overall aesthetic of the device.

Read more about the Apple iPhone

• Apple’s iPhone Depends Heavily on OS X Integration
• Apple smart phone project rests on Mac OS X tie-ins
• iPhone Patent Application
• Apple’s iPhone Rising?