Author Archives: Benjamin Robbins
How Enterprises Can Achieve a Complete Return on Mobility
Mobile Only: Week 51 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. Enterprises everywhere are going all-in with mobility. They are arming their sales force with tablets, setting up [...]
The Foundation of Mobile Productivity
Mobile Only: Week 50 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. According to the 80/20 rule (also known as the Pareto principal), “roughly 80% of the effects come [...]
Making Mobile Palatable for the Enterprise
Mobile Only: Week 49 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. My head is spinning from the diametrically opposed news as of late. The analyst firm Canalys released [...]
Tracking Your Mobile—Something to Fear or the Next Frontier?
Mobile Only: Week 48 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday issued a wide-ranging, but non-binding, set of new guidelines [...]
What would it take to convince you to ditch your iPhone?
Mobile Only: Week 47 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. Apple’s stock prices have fallen quite dramatically recently. Share price has fallen so much, from $702 USD [...]
Enterprise Mobility is About Enabling Value Not Value Engineering
Mobile Only: Week 46 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. The consumerization of IT has liberated the workplace. It has freed users from the tyranny of IT [...]
I Hope the Phone Dies a Miserable, Horrible Death
Mobile Only: Week 45 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. Much of the mobile device news from the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the [...]
Mobile Killed the PC Star
Mobile Only: Week 44 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. The netbook is officially dead. The last two remaining manufactures of netbook devices have decided to call [...]
If You Needed a New Computer, What Would you Buy?
Mobile Only: Week 43 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. Headline: Christmas Day 2012 Smartphone And Tablet Activations Top 17.4M, 2.5X The Record Set In 2011. I [...]
Looking Back – A Year of Mobile Only