Google announces Android for Work

Post by wyldfire » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 1:14 AM UTC

click170 wrote: post #44

pasbesoin wrote: post #19

I suggest that anyone considering sharing a personal device with work activity (other than basic phone calls and messaging, e.g. "I'll be in late") think twice. Comes a security concern or conflict, someone's probably going to want access to the whole thing. If you want me to do "your work" on a phone -- particularly as an employee as opposed to as an independent contractor utilizing their own resources as defined in…

I'm a stickler about this. Beyond answering the odd phone call or message, I have a hard time seeing it as anything but the company unfairly attempting to externalize costs onto their employees. Just like you give me a work computer to do work related tasks on, the same should go for mobile devices. My employer used to be rather liberal but recently started clamping down on security. They wanted us communicating in t…

Post by jnevelson » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 1:23 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #77

"Android for Work app – For devices running Ice Cream Sandwich through Kitkat..." I can imagine the average business manager type reading that line and thinking "Wha?!"

Post by Nullabillity » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 1:27 AM UTC

Zigurd wrote: post #15

api wrote: post #9

So we're all going to code, write, etc. on four inch screens? Seriously why hasn't someone made a smart phone that "transforms" into a larger screen form factor when connected to a monitor? I could see Android phones doing this. I could never imagine iOS doing it-- Apple would never cannibalize Mac like that, and iOS is too jailed for anything "real." Of course apps would have to support it. But those that didn't cou…

The toolchain won't run on Android anyway. I would enjoy having, say, a Jolla or Ubuntu tablet that would run an Android toolchain. ChromeOS is doing fine in the laptop/netbook form factor. Trying to unify the touch and pointing-device worlds is what made Microsoft late to the party.

Post by kelnos » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 2:07 AM UTC

vlunkr wrote: post #81

noblethrasher wrote: post #66

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More "sandboxed" in the sense that iOS apps start in a small sandbox that gets progressively and opportunistically larger. Instead of demanding all permissions upon installation, they demand them contemporaneously with attempted access to certain resources. The idea is that user consent is more informed. In contrast, Android apps demand all of their permissions up front.

Even beyond that though, if an iOS app requests ALL possible permissions, it doesn't have the same capabilities that an android app does.

Post by rhino369 » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 2:15 AM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #54

r00fus wrote: post #31

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Would secure-wiping the phone if involved in a legal discovery process be considered destruction of evidence? Does your advice apply when you're only using, say Exchange, as your only entry point (e.g. on iOS devices?) - in this case, all discovery can be done server-side. I find it hard pressed to think this issue hasn't been covered more rigorously.

Would secure-wiping the phone if involved in a legal discovery process be considered destruction of evidence? Yes, if it's not part of a routine process.