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Ford Transitioning From BlackBerries to iPhones for Employees
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That's ironic. BlackBerry's MDM lets companies invade privacy by maintaining a log of every SMS and IM sent -- without the employees knowledge -- but employees are having a problem with privacy when a non-BlackBerry MDM notifies them their company chooses to look at their location or the apps running? WTH?
Actually, no. Many people do not know Ford's famous line these days. Lighten up, man. If you got nothing better to do than criticize people's lighhearted jokes online, i feel sorry for you.
If Apple really does take off in enterprise, IT pros might just start a new club. With Maytag repair people.
As a Canadian this makes me a bit sad. But they should have seen the writing on the wall back in 2007-8 instead of burying their heads in the sand.
...you know that they've been doing pretty well, right? This comment just makes you look a bit silly.
a golden opportunity for apple to get rid of 3300 of those ugly ass 5Cs that no one wants..
...you know that they've been doing pretty well, right? This comment just makes you look a bit silly.
Same here
We're phasing out the BBs and replacing them with iPhones 5s. But if I'm brutally honest, I'm not over the moon with that move. Since the business use of my mobile device consists 90% of the time of emails, I would have liked a really large screen; say Lumia 1520 or 930.
In addition, the Swype keyboard introduced with WP 8.1 works really nicely (I use an iP and a WP in parallel for personal use)! At some point in time, they thought about allowing BYOD (all OS) but I guess they realized the headache that Android devices would be and now the iP is mandatory
We're phasing out the BBs and replacing them with iPhones 5s. But if I'm brutally honest, I'm not over the moon with that move. Since the business use of my mobile device consists 90% of the time of emails, I would have liked a really large screen; say Lumia 1520 or 930.
In addition, the Swype keyboard introduced with WP 8.1 works really nicely (I use an iP and a WP in parallel for personal use)! At some point in time, they thought about allowing BYOD (all OS) but I guess they realized the headache that Android devices would be and now the iP is mandatory
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The point was that the BlackBerry MDM has allowed companies to invade the privacy of their employees without the employees knowledge, whereas the Android/iOS MDMs notify the user when the company does something like that. The gist of the other article seems to have been "now that employees know their privacy is being invaded by their company's MDM on their Android/iOS devices, they suddenly want their old BlackBerrys back", as if their old BlackBerrys were any less prone to privacy invasions. BlackBerrys simply didn't notify users when their company was doing stuff like that.
Both Android and iOS have been able to (for years now) containerize work in its own separate secure silo, like the BlackBerry Balance feature you've linked to above.
We're phasing out the BBs and replacing them with iPhones 5s. But if I'm brutally honest, I'm not over the moon with that move. Since the business use of my mobile device consists 90% of emails! I would have liked a really large screen; say Lumia 1520 or 930.
In addition, the Swype keyboard introduced with WP 8.1 works really nice (I use an iP and a WP in parallel for personal use)! At some point in time they thought about allowing BYOD (all OS) but I guess they realized the headache that Android devices would be and now the iP is mandatory
Well at least you can enjoy new keyboards including swype on iOS8...
always someone who can't just take a joke for a joke and has to question it and break it down.
Maybe the employees know how BES10 works, and that is what they want.
And even BES10 is allegedly better on BB10 devices than when used with other phones.
BB10 devices are designed to support security from the hardware level up.
And they can be enhanced by NATO-approved German hardware crypto cards. The company was acquired by BlackBerry today, BTW.
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If we're allowed to install non-company apps... I work in a business which is obsessed with the protection of company IP.
My employer is, too. I was lucky to be hired just as the very first wave were being issued - I was the first person in my department to have an iPhone.
Unfortunately, they locked them down - hard. No iCloud integration allowed, FaceTime and iMessage disabled (only regular SMS,) a custom internal app store with a *VERY* limited selection of apps. (Policy says no 'high bandwidth' apps, so no Netflix, although strangely they DO allow YouTube.)
Ironically, the division I work for makes iOS apps for our clients, and most of our clients branded apps aren't on the approved app list!
Thankfully, the ultra-limited setup was only temporary during the first wave of the rollout - they are starting a new less-restricted set up currently. My phone gets "migrated" over this week.
Unfortunately, they locked them down - hard. No iCloud integration allowed, FaceTime and iMessage disabled (only regular SMS,) a custom internal app store with a *VERY* limited selection of apps. (Policy says no 'high bandwidth' apps, so no Netflix, although strangely they DO allow YouTube.)
Ironically, the division I work for makes iOS apps for our clients, and most of our clients branded apps aren't on the approved app list!
Thankfully, the ultra-limited setup was only temporary during the first wave of the rollout - they are starting a new less-restricted set up currently. My phone gets "migrated" over this week.
Or maybe the whole article is BS.
When you have an unnamed "IT Executive" from an unnamed "well-known investment firm in NYC" implying that his employees want BlackBerrys back because he's got the ability to use a MDM to turn on the camera and/or microphone on an employees iPhone, that's just utter crap.
Actually, they are already rolling them out. My in-law is getting his iPhone this week.
It isn't ironic. The reality is that if your company wants to have control and visibility into your mobile device and you want privacy, then you have to carry two devices.
If you want privacy, then you can't hand over your personal smartphone to the 25-year old in IT. Period. One you do, unless you do a full wipe before hand, then you've handed over your entire digital life.
You need to either have two devices or you need to physically sit there and watch everything the IT person does with your phone until they are done.
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No, the article doesn't get into it, but I'm pretty sure the part they want back is that the company start paying for them to have a separate phone. So they can use one phone for business and one for personal and never give the personal over to corporate.
You don't need to let IT touch your BB10 phone:
http://bizblog.blackberry.com/2012/09/blackberry-10-enterprise-activation/
Yeah, bad news for BB. But I am in hopes that it will somehow lead to better iOS integration in my Ford Fusion or the next Ford vehicle I buy.
