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iPhone user being forced to Black Berry Z10 for Work?
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Blackberry's software is cheaper than Good per user, and it can control blackberry, iphone and android phones. Like other iphone device management software, Blackberry's software detects whether your iphone has been jailbroken and if it is jailbroken then you can't connect to the corporate network.
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It doesn't matter with the forwarding.
His employer decided that employees can no longer have a jailbroken iphone or an iphone with icloud feature turn on. Even if his employer doesn't buy the Blackberry device management software, they will still buy another company's device management software that detects whether your iphone has been jailbroken and disable your iphone's icloud feature.
good won't work with jail broken phones, when I costed it up about a year ago good worked out cheaper per user apart from where we had to buy the phone for the user then it was cheaper to give them a BB
I wouldn't want any control over a byod phone
That's where device management software is headed --- with or without Blackberry's software. VMware wants a piece of the action. Good wants to charge more license fee per user, so they are going to add these functions as well in the future.
I agree, that is why I opted to keep my personal IP5 personal and off the company network, and they ordered me a work phone which I will only have to carry when I am on call, so that is not a big deal, they better part is that since the Z10's are so backordered, we get the option of an IP5 for work, so I chose that route. I just feel personal is personal, and business is business, so only thing I lost is the monthly expense of my phone bill.
They gave us the option of an IP5 since the BB Z10 is so backordered, in any case works for me, keep my IP5 personal, and use the work one for work only, just hate having two, but do not want any software that controls what I can and can not do on my IP5, so this is the choice I had to make.
Good sucks ass. Look at the reviews on the app store. I have to use it for work And hate it.
I'm unimpressed with the Z10 since some of the greatest benefits of Blackberry go away with it. It's essentially an (even) bigger version of the iPhone - something I never wanted for the last few years.
That being said if my employer paid for it I'd use it. In fact I'd be rather begging to give me the Q10 once it's available.
If you work in a field where data safety is very important (and which field isn't) I can totally understand what your employer is doing here. Just keep your iPhone for your personal stuff and everyone should be happy. Messing with the settings and moving corporate data elsewhere is all fun and games - until something goes very wrong. And they'll get you for that. And rightly so.
That being said if my employer paid for it I'd use it. In fact I'd be rather begging to give me the Q10 once it's available.
If you work in a field where data safety is very important (and which field isn't) I can totally understand what your employer is doing here. Just keep your iPhone for your personal stuff and everyone should be happy. Messing with the settings and moving corporate data elsewhere is all fun and games - until something goes very wrong. And they'll get you for that. And rightly so.
But it is cheaper for your employer to pay for the device management software than buying you a work phone.
If this happened to me I would leave the BB at home after normal work hours and on the weekends.
Luckily my company allows us to BYOD.
A lot f companies are allowing BYOD, but that soon will end, in my job as a Software Security Auditor for a Public Co, I see their point, but they only have BB Curves, or Bolds, the Torch or an iPhone 4S or IP5, so I went with the IP5.
I just have to keep personal seperate from work and vice versa which I am ok with, plus for work they allow us to order Mophie cases so now my battery will last longer for work, and since I will not be using my personal phone for Work, my battery will last longer and my bill went down as well Win Win, plus we got Apple Care on the work phone.
