Re: [Fed-Talk] iPhone not allowed at NIH - comments?
Re: [Fed-Talk] iPhone not allowed at NIH - comments?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] iPhone not allowed at NIH - comments?
- From: "William G. Cerniuk" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:44:54 -0400
(flipped off the keyboard click, nicked that send button.. Would like
a confirm on send too on iPhone)
Anyway, corporate activation can be done outside of the itunes
environment. This suggests that it would be trivial inside the iTunes.
If true, then perhaps the corporate activation is being held back in
order to provide a full corporate experience?
But as the corporate market is so small compared to the consumer
market, Apple engineering resources are limited, and corporate
customers are high maint. perhaps it makes good business sense to
ignore us? At least in the beginning?
We have 250,000 + corporate PC users, around (i think) 6000 corporate
blackberrys. If we gusstimate that 1/2 of the workforce has their own
cell phone ... that means 125,000 cell phones. The ratio of consumer
consumer cell phones to BBs would be approximated at 20:1.
V/R,
Wm. Cerniuk
Time is Short and the Water Rises
(sent via my iPhone)
On Oct 28, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Amanda Walker <email@hidden> wrote:
On Oct 28, 2007, at 9:28 AM, William G. Cerniuk wrote:
In some ways it is actually a superior security model.
In many ways, absolutely. I strongly prefer anything based on
standards (I should note here that I do carry an iPhone, and do not
carry a Blackberry).
I suspect that if Apple & ATT implemented the following features,
the iPhone would become a lot more enterprise- and federal-friendly:
- Bill to corporate account (right now, you cannot use iPhones on
corporate ATT accounts, only personal ones).
- Policy enforcement (freeze settings such as "auto-lock after n
minutes" and "require password")
- Over the air re-initialize, so that stolen/lost units can be
sanitized over the air.
The first is clearly artificial--ATT does corporate billing
already. The second is solely in Apple's court, while the third
would probably require work from both Apple and ATT. None of these
things require building an equivalent to BES.
--Amanda
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