With Apple's announcement that an iPhone SDK will be out this February, I wonder if RIM will work up a version of Blackberry Connect for the iPhone. I could see that happening, and would think that Apple would encourage it as it would mean pushing the iPhone into the enterprise market.

Just a thought.

Don't know, although personally I don't see why BBC even exists as a product. If you look at RIM's financial reports, they always show the majority of revenue comes from handset sales, so if this is the case why write a version of your client to run on Windows devices....your competitors??? The iPhone is of course not really as much a BlackBerry competitor as Windows Mobile, but the whole thing seems insane to me anyway so I wouldn't be surprised to see it!!

I would speculate that they won't but who knows anything is possible

well it makes financial sense. Yes we own 40% of the market, but why not get money from the other 60%? even if it is just a little money each month, that makes quite a bit of cash overall. as the fastest growing PDA device on the market, the iphone would be a perfect device to install the client on. It also helps show iphone users the potential benefits of the blackberry, and may cause some to switch.

that is a good point Sith

RIM also gets royalty from service providers offering BIS/ BES plans. So more devices having BBC installed, more the revenue.
Thats the logic behind BBC client for competitors devices.