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Google Play comes to Google Apps: Enterprises can distribute apps internally

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Re: Google Play comes to Google Apps: Enterprises can distribute apps internally

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Post by yRetsyM »

luke_s wrote: post #30
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #22

This is going to be incredibly useful for me. I'm not familiar with the Apple or Windows Phone platforms. Do they have anything similar?

Apple has a B2B program where you can make an app available only to phones registered to a particular organisation. It has not been rolled out worldwide, like the google program appears to be: http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/ On the downside of googles program, it appears to rely on a company using google apps (basically the corporate version of Gmail, which runs under your own domain). I understand not many compan…

It seems that google is slowly migrating google apps platform to not just being reliant on using all googles apps/services. IE: Postini users will be migrated next year to Google Apps (but not require to be using gmail).

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Post by hosay123 »

patrickaljord wrote: post #25
hosay123 wrote: post #6

At what point do people start believing that Google has a strong interest in carving out its own proprietary ecosystem, all their openness "plays" always lead to the same thing: some rhetorical platform used only to advance their private agenda. Chrome and Android will soon be Internet Explorer and Windows of the 21st century.

I would love to be able to git clone IE like I can right now with AOSP and Chrome.

It's great, and I absolutely love how I can independently host Google Play and Chrome Store.. oh wait a second.

Re: Google Play comes to Google Apps: Enterprises can distribute apps internally

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Post by yohui »

ConstantineXVI wrote: post #18
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One has to wonder what the problem was with Market.

I took it as a way of making Google's involvement more clear; it's not immediately obvious "Android Market" is Google-related, where "Google Play Store" is.

That seems reasonable. But it explains "Google" more than "Play". (Why not "Google Market"?)

I assume Google decided on "Play" over "Market" for other reasons.

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Post by nl »

hosay123 wrote: post #32
patrickaljord wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to be able to git clone IE like I can right now with AOSP and Chrome.

It's great, and I absolutely love how I can independently host Google Play and Chrome Store.. oh wait a second.

I'm not sure your sarcasm makes sense.

You can't host either Google Play or Chrome Store, but you can write your own and install apps from them.

There are many other Android appstores around - most phone vendors and carries have one, many large enterprises have their own and there are a number of 3rd party ones.

I don't think there are any other Chrome stores but I suspect that has more to do with the lack of use Chrome apps have.

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Post by k3n »

te_chris wrote: post #15
sp332 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, which is inappropriate for a business-oriented device or service.

Only if you subscribe to a narrow, business-school centric, "very serious" view of business.

What? While I can certainly appreciate fun in the workplace, that is not the central tenet of most businesses, and even at the places where it might happen to be that way then you're still going to require some "serious" apps, such as for email, chat, remote desktop, server and asset administration, etc.

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Post by halostatue »

mtkd wrote: post #13

This is huge for business uptake and could, in a few months, start leading enterprises to specify Android only. Will open up a lot more opportunities for mobile business app startups too. Mobile in enterprise is often seen as lagging behind consumer use - but senior execs in my experience are already a lot further ahead on mobile use for stats/monitoring than many probably appreciate - getting broader uptake across a…

In your first sentence, there are two statements. The first is true. I see this as an important step that Google had missed, yet Apple had working (for some value of working) from day one.

The second is unlikely to be true for a very long time, if ever, and is merely wishful thinking. It would equally be wishful thinking if someone thought that enterprises would specify iOS only or SailFish only.

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Post by lazugod »

k3n wrote: post #35
te_chris wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if you subscribe to a narrow, business-school centric, "very serious" view of business.

What? While I can certainly appreciate fun in the workplace, that is not the central tenet of most businesses, and even at the places where it might happen to be that way then you're still going to require some "serious" apps, such as for email, chat, remote desktop, server and asset administration, etc.

Why are none of those fun?

Re: Google Play comes to Google Apps: Enterprises can distribute apps internally

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Post by FigBug »

luke_s wrote: post #30
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #22

This is going to be incredibly useful for me. I'm not familiar with the Apple or Windows Phone platforms. Do they have anything similar?

Apple has a B2B program where you can make an app available only to phones registered to a particular organisation. It has not been rolled out worldwide, like the google program appears to be: http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/ On the downside of googles program, it appears to rely on a company using google apps (basically the corporate version of Gmail, which runs under your own domain). I understand not many compan…

Slight correction: The enterprise developer program is for distributing apps within an organization: https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/

The B2B program is more for bulk purchase of custom apps.

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Post by Evbn »

nl wrote: post #34
hosay123 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's great, and I absolutely love how I can independently host Google Play and Chrome Store.. oh wait a second.

I'm not sure your sarcasm makes sense. You can't host either Google Play or Chrome Store, but you can write your own and install apps from them. There are many other Android appstores around - most phone vendors and carries have one, many large enterprises have their own and there are a number of 3rd party ones. I don't think there are any other Chrome stores but I suspect that has more to do with the lack of use Chr…

You can't install a certificate to enable your Chrome to one-click install a user.js from apple.com or Mozilla.org, but you can install extensions from Google.com. That is not an open web.

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Post by ceph_ »

luke_s wrote: post #30
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #22

This is going to be incredibly useful for me. I'm not familiar with the Apple or Windows Phone platforms. Do they have anything similar?

Apple has a B2B program where you can make an app available only to phones registered to a particular organisation. It has not been rolled out worldwide, like the google program appears to be: http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/ On the downside of googles program, it appears to rely on a company using google apps (basically the corporate version of Gmail, which runs under your own domain). I understand not many compan…

Gmail is much more popular than exchange. The types of businesses who are chained to exchange are not the type to be deploying custom android apps in house.
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