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NYPD Expected to Replace 35,000+ Windows Phones With iPhones Starting This Year
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That question is answered in the article. It’s usually helpful to read beyond the title.
I can't speak for NYPD, but I can for certain tell you at DHS our Windows Phones, issued around November of 2015, replaced our BlackBerry devices. And we had those for almost seven years.
Honestly, the only reason Research in Motion lasted as long as they did was because of pricey Verizon contracts and poor judgement (along with IT laziness) from the United States Government.
While this is true, concerning the functionality of EMM/MDM, it fails to mention that additional development that would be required for the other platforms.The containers do not provide cross-platform apps, but rather the API/SDK's to secure the traffic from the end points.
Not all the government we're cycling of BB and moving to iPhone in my little part of fedgov
Changing an entire computing platform for a major organization like NYPD after just one year is not the same as you personally buying a new iPad just because you wanted something a little faster and lighter. It is such a false equivalency that it barely merits rebuttal.
There's no way in heck they'd upgrade the phones every year! Maybe every 3 years or so.
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The Xbox business is a rounding error in Microsoft's accounting. Azure is the rising star in their portfolio, but Windows and Office are still very big cash cows.
We use the Good suite of applications which is now owned by Blackberry. Works very well and works across iOS, Android and Windows phone.
Actually, even if the NYPD paid once the taxpayer would have paid the same...and the NYPD could have done something else.
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This was likely years in the making. They're a MS shop, and MS's consultants should have known better.
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The same team of people who pushed your Windows Phones at DHS pushed these at NYPD, by the way.
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The next step will undoubtedly be BYOD, before even all of the government has moved to another platform.
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When you enroll a device in BYOD, you're going to have to treat that device responsibly. A cop doesn't let his/her kid play with their radio, gun, or badge. And this will be no different.
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It would take a decade for an Android desktop OS to be capable of replacing Windows in the Enterprise if it launched today. It's likely never, ever going to happen.
Didn't read the article huh. They were using windows only video surveillance software and needed the portables to work with it
They should have gone with Android. It's such a no brainer. Lots of quality, affordable sets and even rugged options like the Galaxy active series. Windows phone never had a future. They were too late to the party and by then both iOS and Android were the only real game in town. They should have invested in surveillance software on Linux/Android instead but Windows still has a stranglehold in enterprise. It's also the OS that most people are comfortable using since it never required buying proprietary hardware to run it.
That saying means if you buy something crappy, you'll end up paying again for something else. If they all bought iPhones they wouldn't be replacing all of them right now ... so they're paying again ... it's not a hard concept.
So if they bought iPhones back in 2014 when they bought the windows phones, they wouldn't be replacing them right now?
Somebody needs to notify Tim Cook, 3 years is too soon to replace iPhones. His reliance on a 2 year update cycle is a disaster and Apple is Doomed.
Yeh... its so amazing that the vendor with 90% market share on personal computers is still making money. Who would have thought
these phones would have internal access software on them that they won't want anyone accessing off hours. plus what if the officer lost his phone, he's not going to be happy about IT remote erasing it and all his pics of his kids, which you know he never bothered to backup
"You get what you pay for!" I feel for the poor NYC taxpayers who get to shoulder this boondoggle. "Sad"
Technicians don't steer enterprises. Executives do. While there are certainly platform zealots in technical roles, executive, C-level employees should definitely be beyond such things.
3 years of usage...they would have replaced the phones regardless of what manufacturer they chose.