All these replies to my post and not one explaining how <cough> iOS is "killing it" in the enterprise market. And no... checking your email with the mail app is not "enterprise" work. For god's sake, it's taken Apple 9 versions just so we can perform multiple attachments.
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Apple and Cisco Team Up for iOS Enterprise 'Fast Lane'
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All these replies to my post and not one explaining how <cough> iOS is "killing it" in the enterprise market. And no... checking your email with the mail app is not "enterprise" work. For god's sake, it's taken Apple 9 versions just so we can perform multiple attachments.
I will like a switch from apple....PoE better...because apple produce 2 routers...I need to buy them from other sources; like cisco. Just an example of the possibilities.
Not even close. Cisco is off the 880 and 237 and Apple is off the 280.Should be called "US-101 S", because it connects San Francisco and Cupertino.
What's more is that most Enterprises have moved to Web based apps so a PC or Mac is almost interchangeable because the browser support is the same. So besides the GUI and form factor, not much difference in user experience.
Hell, even the chips, RAM, and SSD are the same.
Cisco is pretty much the industrial strength networks themselves.
It comes after Google wanted to reform wi-fi.
I guess its move against Google monopolizing new wi-fi standards.
Even more, it makes iOS a preferred choice among industrial strength/corporate network client because Cisco hardware and software will be seamlessly working with Apple products.
Excellent news.
It comes after Google wanted to reform wi-fi.
I guess its move against Google monopolizing new wi-fi standards.
Even more, it makes iOS a preferred choice among industrial strength/corporate network client because Cisco hardware and software will be seamlessly working with Apple products.
Excellent news.
No way. WiFi is based on open standards across multiple vendors, not just Cisco or Apple. They're may be some Cisco specific optimizations but even the WiFi chips in Apple devices are off the shelf, not Apple specific.
As for Google, they were interested in the service not the hardware.
As I said before, this is a Cisco maneuver against Microsoft UC.
I do believe it is the iPhone trademark they had to come to an agreement with Cisco.
Only after Jobs stole it.
http://www.redmondpie.com/heres-how...red-the-iphone-and-ios-trademarks-from-cisco/
Don't forget MS. Balmer really screwed that up.
Glad to see someone forged ahead with their vision of mobile. It's (IMO) very telling that so many others can't even follow the leader. How hard is it to play "monkey see, monkey do". Esp BB, they had the tiger by the tail once.
You are off track. This thread is about iOS, not macs vs. PC's. iPads are not even in the same realm with regard to the Enterprise market. But of course... they are "killing it". lol.
Agreed. The extent of iOS in the Enterprise is because of Microsoft adding the Exchange profile and Cisco adding VPN.
Might want to read your own links: "If the book is to be believed, then Apple actually acquired the rights to the iOS name prior to it actually being used and made public knowledge that the name change was happening."
The reason iOS is in the Enterprise is because BYOD happened. Because Blackberry/Windows Mobile had such ****** UX that nobody in their right minds wanted to use it for both work and home...Microsoft didn't add an Exchange profile to iOS, the PIM experience in iOS is completely unique and Exchange merely meets the standard. Cisco didn't invent the VPN and they certainly aren't the only Enterprise VPN solution out there...
To be fair, these industries aren't using any modern update of any OS, Windows included. You hit the nail on the head with custom applications and platforms. These industries can't even upgrade to a newer version of the same operating system in many cases because they are prisoners to customized solutions laid upon a foundation completely reliant on outrageously outdated operating systems, with no way to fix them without doing a complete overhaul from scratch. Most of the world's finance and banking industries are still running on proprietary platforms based on DOS, believe it or not, mostly because the cost of creating a new solution running on a modern, open, OS independent platform simply isn't feasible, not to mention the potential risk of security breach or data loss during a data migration on these scales. These infrastructures won't be updated until they are forced to be. These industries are behemoths that take decades to change directions, even after you have the rudder att full lock in the opposite direction. I mean a lot of these systems are relatively unchanged for 40+ years!!
Regardless, it has little to do with Apple's inability to penetrate there, on a user level they have penetrated quite well, with their hardware at least. PC users in these industries will tell you, they definitely aren't running Windows 10 on their machines, not Windows 8 either. Not for their work at least. Lots and lots of them are having to run a network session inside Windows on a remote user desktop on some old or ancient form of Windows Server as well. Mac users just have to use a VM to access the same thing.
