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An Open Letter To Customers

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Re: An Open Letter To Customers

#31

It won't be long until you say Blackberry phone and people will say "What?" This company will be a case study in how deep in the sand you can stick your head. You'd think they'd have studied the spectacular downfall of Palm, and prior to that, Iomega, when trying to chart their own course.

It's corporate schizophrenia. So few corporations avoid it. The only ones I can think of in technology are IBM and Motorola. They seem to have been able to reinvent themselves enough times to avoid crapping out entirely. Sure, they aren't the biggest in their fields, but maybe that all consuming pursuit to be the biggest is part of the downfall of other companies.

Re: An Open Letter To Customers

#33
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They most certainly were not! They were written for CIO's and the like. For the record: MDM - Mobile Device Management - a thing to integrate management of a companies cell phones BES - BlackBerry Enterprise Server - the MDM made by BlackBerry BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - The practice of employees using personal cell phones for company business. The company deploys some set of apps and services onto the device whic…

I knew those but EMM tripped me up - any idea?

Enterprise Mobility Management

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Mobility_Management

Re: An Open Letter To Customers

#34
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They most certainly were not! They were written for CIO's and the like. For the record: MDM - Mobile Device Management - a thing to integrate management of a companies cell phones BES - BlackBerry Enterprise Server - the MDM made by BlackBerry BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - The practice of employees using personal cell phones for company business. The company deploys some set of apps and services onto the device whic…

I knew those but EMM tripped me up - any idea?

Enterprise Messaging Management?

Googling reveals Enterprise Mobility Management.

Re: An Open Letter To Customers

#35
The key point in this letter which HN people should be noting is:

> To our valued enterprise customers and partners,

MDM (Mobile Device Management), EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) is to the enterprise IT department what saas, paas, Xaas is to Hacker News, industry language.

On a separate note I still have no idea why Oracle/HP/IBM haven't bought them, clearly so much opportunity seeing as Fortune 500 have still not settled on an effective way to manage mobile devices,

- Easily (for Sysadmin vs Employee), - Securely (employee privacy vs corporate security) - Cheaply (BYOD)

BES10 is actually pretty robust and has more features than most of its competitors

Re: An Open Letter To Customers

#36
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They most certainly were not! They were written for CIO's and the like. For the record: MDM - Mobile Device Management - a thing to integrate management of a companies cell phones BES - BlackBerry Enterprise Server - the MDM made by BlackBerry BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - The practice of employees using personal cell phones for company business. The company deploys some set of apps and services onto the device whic…

I knew those but EMM tripped me up - any idea?

Enterprise Mobility Management.

From Wikipedia: "Enterprise mobility management (EMM) is the set of people, processes and technology focused on managing the increasing array of mobile devices, wireless networks, and related services to enable broad use of mobile computing in a business context."

Yikes.

Re: An Open Letter To Customers

#37

It won't be long until you say Blackberry phone and people will say "What?" This company will be a case study in how deep in the sand you can stick your head. You'd think they'd have studied the spectacular downfall of Palm, and prior to that, Iomega, when trying to chart their own course.

Any further information on Iomega's downfall? I used them for their Zipdisks and would love to see read happened. I'm also interested in the downfall of Palm.

Re: An Open Letter To Customers

#39
post #11

"MDM vendors are undoubtedly inviting you to webinars and enticing you to switch off your BES." They're trying to tell me an actual human typed that sentence?

What's wrong with it? Does the average consumer understand what it means? No. Is this targeted at them? No. If you saw a post that started,

"Java applet vendors are undoubtedly inviting you to webinars and enticing you to switch off your HTML-based system"

would you throw up your hands and say that the message failed?

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