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Apple Highlights iOS 7 Features for Business and Education Users
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There is that, but there is also the thing about mobility. If you forget printed material in a cab, the company has to notify the local police authority, but if you forget your company laptop / iPad / other electric device that has the same information in a cab, the company has to notify over 22 states (regardless of whether you can or cannot remote wipe a device)
The ability not to store anything means less liability for the companies. Besides, more and more productivity now is being done using a mobile web application. It poses challenges on 4G coverage, but definitely gives companies peace of mind.
How to use an ipad in business
some real world examples of my customers.
-> use ipad for project management with online database and cached data if
you are offline
-> use ipad as dataentry tool eg in point of sale situations
-> use ipad as a reader of documens -> most professional document
management systems have ios apps
-> use ipad with pages, numbers and keynote including icloud
-> use ipad for presentation
-> use ipad/ios for mail/contact/calender management
-> communication
as you see, ipad is not only capable but because of íts formfactor for most of the work it's better suited than a notebook.
Realize more than 70% of the work with computers is not "entering large amounts of text"
PS : regarding documents on the ipad
any bigger company wipes all documents even from notebooks before flying to other states or allow only online vpn access for security reasons
some real world examples of my customers.
-> use ipad for project management with online database and cached data if
you are offline
-> use ipad as dataentry tool eg in point of sale situations
-> use ipad as a reader of documens -> most professional document
management systems have ios apps
-> use ipad with pages, numbers and keynote including icloud
-> use ipad for presentation
-> use ipad/ios for mail/contact/calender management
-> communication
as you see, ipad is not only capable but because of íts formfactor for most of the work it's better suited than a notebook.
Realize more than 70% of the work with computers is not "entering large amounts of text"
PS : regarding documents on the ipad
any bigger company wipes all documents even from notebooks before flying to other states or allow only online vpn access for security reasons
Apple needs a "cloud" based app management and OS X server based "iTunes" profile/AppleID management.
And how exactly is iPad better suited than a notebook? All the tasks that you listed could be performed more efficiently on a notebook. The only reason for using a tablet instead of a notebook is its higher mobility that is important for relatively few jobs.
The only way to not require a the password to be updated once it's changed (for ActiveSync) is to use certificate based authentication. If you're using and MDM to manage your company's devices, this can be setup relatively easily if you have a certificate authority server setup in your local environment.
So users of the iOS versions of GarageBand, Pages, and iMovie, etc., aren't storing their files locally? People using iOS devices aren't storing photos and music locally?
Regardless of what you think, local storage is going to be around for a very long time. Sometimes people need an easy way to move files from one device to another, and it is difficult with an iOS device that is shared (like in education) or that is supervised in Configurator.
AirDrop between an iOS device and an OS X machine is a start (not sure that is part of the new features), but then there are iOS users who need to transfer files to and from Windows machines and other types of devices as well.
iOS 7 Features for Business & Education:
Comes bundled with aesthetically revolting icons and carefully picked non-matching color palette, so you don't stare at the user interface too much and focus on your work instead.
Caution: Looking at iOS 7 UI for a prolonged time may cause headaches, nausea, migraines and severe aesthetic trauma.
Comes bundled with aesthetically revolting icons and carefully picked non-matching color palette, so you don't stare at the user interface too much and focus on your work instead.
Caution: Looking at iOS 7 UI for a prolonged time may cause headaches, nausea, migraines and severe aesthetic trauma.
The words iOS and Business used in the same sentence... is that even possible? 
My business cohorts always start out with iPads at a meeting until the conversation gets really detailed and money gets spent... then out come the Lenovos.
My business cohorts always start out with iPads at a meeting until the conversation gets really detailed and money gets spent... then out come the Lenovos. You can get tapatalk which does what you want for the forum thing.
It did go free a few days ago but I'm not sure about now.
LOL, now that is an efficient way to manage files! The Finder is just a relic of the PC era! Now we can email files between devices!
The Fanbois are out in force today...
great features, i'm really missing my iphone. i wish i had waited till the unveiling of the iOS7 before buying the GS4.
Please add remote screen/control capabilities like Veency!!!
I'm supporting a couple people with iPhone's/iPad's and this would make life so much easier if I wouldn't need a jailbreaked iOS version..
(ps: clearly it needs to come with proper security)
(pps: anything similar to what available in OSX would do)
I'm supporting a couple people with iPhone's/iPad's and this would make life so much easier if I wouldn't need a jailbreaked iOS version..
(ps: clearly it needs to come with proper security)
(pps: anything similar to what available in OSX would do)
Have you bought a Chromebook yet? They're apparently the future.
Listen, I think cloud storage is excellent for easy file access among multiple computers and redundant storage, but I'll never, ever want to rely on it solely. There are too many factors involved that keep it from being truly reliable. From internet outages on my end, to server downtime on theirs, to hacking attempts, to random bugs, to whatever. I had one situation where Dropbox decided to randomly delete all my data stored on their server, and had to spend an hour talking to customer service to get it back.
And lets not forget that cell companies love gouging us for using their data here in the US.
Local storage is flaky enough, why would I want to replace it for something that has the potential to be a thousand times flakier and completely out of my control?
Some odd comments on this thread - I guess from people who don't work in companies which use iPhones/pads as daily business devices.
The fact is you have to accommodate any smartphone/tablet in the overall strategy and infrastructure. If you do this then 99% of all the whining on this thread is irrelevant.
All employees where I work are provide an iPhone and of certain levels an iPad also - however we also promote people using there own personal tablets. Some people even use Samsung tablets running Windows7 as there daily machine, personal preference and all that.
As posting this from my iPad which I use on a daily basis for all my general time management, project management tasks . . . and oddly I never sit and say 'man I need access to the file system!'.
The fact is you have to accommodate any smartphone/tablet in the overall strategy and infrastructure. If you do this then 99% of all the whining on this thread is irrelevant.
All employees where I work are provide an iPhone and of certain levels an iPad also - however we also promote people using there own personal tablets. Some people even use Samsung tablets running Windows7 as there daily machine, personal preference and all that.
As posting this from my iPad which I use on a daily basis for all my general time management, project management tasks . . . and oddly I never sit and say 'man I need access to the file system!'.
Apple's failure to support more than a few years of backward compatibility makes them much less useful for the business community and education. We don't just dump our data and tools after five years. If Apple's going to get serious they should offer full backward compatibility all the way to the Apple I.
Quite a narrow minded view, i.e, not all applications require this functionality. I build apps for large scale corporate sales forces for example. Any data we need to get out of the app goes via a server.
iOS doesn't replace regular 'work' machines, no one has ever suggested so. Start to think slightly differently and you will gain a better understanding of just how [iPads in particular] iOS devices can be used efficiently by many organisations. Business is not always about Word documents etc.
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Mobility is for sure a key point.
But Security is better on ios devices than on notebooks.
Better software in most cases.
Cheaper because of optimized software.
Yes you COULD do that also on notebooks. But it just works on ios tablets and is joy to use.
Thats why its better
