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"Secure business apps" Right, on a device with a closed source baseband. On a platform where the vendor has shown to install new apps without getting active consent from the user (Google Play Games, Hangouts, Google Now, Play Kiosk) to name a few.
Downvote all the way you like. Or start defining "secure".
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I don't mean to beat on Blackberry but I too thought of Blackberry when reading this. I had a different approach though. This was the sort of approach that Blackberry optimized to lock out any competition from the enterprise. Apple/iPhone was just soooo good that eventually IT departments had to capitulate and work with BYO devices. Things like the US government were the last to cave so you Obama had a blackberry for…
How it has pretty much been since day one. Didn't many accountants sneak their private AppleII into the office to run Visicalc rather than having to deal with the mainframe and its admins?
This would be a lot more compelling if, when I got a Google voice voicemail and saw that in my Gmail app on my "Google Experience" Moto-G and clicked on the "listen to it" link it didn't just vanish leaving me with an open browser and no message. I like my phone, it works for me, but the sheer disconnectedness of it all is really jarring. Things show up in random places, or not at all, (especially media), and there i…
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How it has pretty much been since day one. Didn't many accountants sneak their private AppleII into the office to run Visicalc rather than having to deal with the mainframe and its admins?
I think it's important though to differentiate between some rogue edge cases and activity that changed the way IT departments think and act.