Looks like anoher thing would follow pc world. Initially companies allow personal laptop to be connected to work as long as you had correct version of patches and so on but with increased focus on security in most large organizations they have moved back company provided laptop. Same will happen here? Another issue a lot of good andriod's come with single sim hence you will anyway need a second (may be dumb phone) phone. Or does people use office phone for personal use , i mean where websites ask for your phone number? Because in India when leave a company (which is on an average one in 3 years) the company take the SIM back with number. And many folks have 2 sims for personal use itself so will obivously need office to provide the phone.
Google announces Android for Work
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Re: Google announces Android for Work
#112Does this mean we'll get Google Now cards for non-gmail accounts now?
Google can fetch mail from other accounts via POP3. Set that up and you'll be able to get Now cards based on the email from any account.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bus station is a where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. So what is the purpose of a workstation? And more importantly, what is the purpose of a PlayStation? ;).
A bus station is also where a bus starts. Ditto for trains and train stations. ;)
Actually bus station is where bus does its job (get on and get off people)
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#114For work on Android I really need native split-screen support. Samsung-specific "multi window" is not a solution.
A proper window tiler would be even better.
Also the interface needs slim UI controls and slim window decorations, basically a "pro mode" theme-switcher for larger screens and mouse/keyboard users.
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#115I love the name "Google Play for Work."
I am right now listening to "Google Play Music All Access I'm Feeling Lucky Radio", which is a way better name than "Spotify".
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#116I love the name "Google Play for Work."
My vote for most awkwardly named software project goes to :
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#117> a dedicated work profile that isolates and protects work data Oh wow, can this be used to just create a separate profile for every app? That way I can run Uber or Line without giving them every permission to everything? This is the biggest reason I do not install apps. Every "famous" app requests so many permissions it's just stupid. And not to mention the weirdness of some of them, like "WiFi Device Information".…
Actually that's the reason I use iOS
Can you expand on that?
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand the discussion of app permissions is not a new one, but today I decided I wanted to try and buy a product through Amazon outside of the browser... Amazon specifically instructs you to navigate to your settings and allow installation of 3rd part apps. Then it directs you to download their .apk - To this point I was almost to the point of excitement that a MAJOR company is showing the public that this is e…
If they have not asked for those permissions, then how can they give those permissions to third party apps that you install through them?
That transitivity itself is an issue.
Why cannot the installed apps request the permissions they need individually?
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#119> a dedicated work profile that isolates and protects work data Oh wow, can this be used to just create a separate profile for every app? That way I can run Uber or Line without giving them every permission to everything? This is the biggest reason I do not install apps. Every "famous" app requests so many permissions it's just stupid. And not to mention the weirdness of some of them, like "WiFi Device Information".…
blackberry allows blackberry users to choose what permissions they won't allow access of in their apps. This doesn't work with the android apps but works rather well with blackberry apps.
For example 2048 game has a lot of permission but being a game I don't allow a single one and it still works flawlessly. I would love to see something like this in android as well. But for now users are at the mercy of app developers.