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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation posted on the discussion topic What makes Android "enterprise-ready"? Would you pay for it? in the group Android in The Enterprise: · View
Ron, I think “enterprise” does mean “targeted at enterprise” but hopefully any company doing so has a clue about the enterprise customer requirements. When it comes to smartphones, it seems it’s still the traditional 3 “must have” features, inferring a bit from the dialog thus far: 1. PIN/password enforcement (ideally with local wipe after X [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation posted on the forum topic What's your take on Windows Phone 7 "Mango" ? in the group Windows Phone: · View
On-device encryption did not seem to be in the list of new features. I’m surprised it is still MIA. Sure, it’s hard work, but it didn’t take Apple too long to get it into iOS, Blackberry has had it for the longest time…looks like we already have a post-Mango wish list.
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post The Overcast Cloud: The Enterprise Mobility Perspective · View
This isn’t really a cloud thing…but it is an enterprise thing. This outage disproportionately impacted smaller organizations who did not buy redundant services and had all their EC2 services in one data center. Larger and older organizations remember what happened the first time an on-premises server failed in the long-ago time, and hence the present [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation started the forum topic What makes Android "enterprise-ready"? Would you pay for it? in the group Android in The Enterprise: · View
Who would like to see an “enterprise pack” for Android, what would be included in it, and how much would your organization be willing to pay (perhaps per device) for it? Are there standard apps you’d need to see? Security requirements? Device management? Your own enterprise application catalog? Storage encryption? Content lockdown? Tools to simplify [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation posted on the forum topic Netflix, Fragmentation and the Android Security problem in the group Mobile Security: · View
I just recently came back from Asia (I won’t say exactly where), and spent a lot of time looking at a lot of different Android devices. It is plainly clear that even the OEMs are struggling with fragmentation–as much as they love to muck with, er, improve upon the Android base, they are also their [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation posted on the forum topic Does Google understand (or care about) enterprise mobility? in the group Android in The Enterprise: · View
Philippe–I am SO busted…the truth is out…I don’t read every one of your posts. If only there were more hours in the day… The ZDNet folks did have a cute tie and briefcase on the Android mascot….but I agree that your post was by far the better take on the market research. I’d like to [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation posted on the forum topic Does Google understand (or care about) enterprise mobility? in the group Android in The Enterprise: · View
On the other hand, Android seems to be doing better than RIM at the moment, if one is to believe what one reads. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/android-leads-rim-recedes-heres-the-enterprise-fallout/ (If nothing else you have to like the tie-and-briefcase-adorned mascot.)
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation posted on the forum topic Does Google understand (or care about) enterprise mobility? in the group Android in The Enterprise: · View
Maybe it’s not Google’s job to do the “enterprise edition” of Android (and if it is, it’s certainly a low priority based on what I can see). Maybe what is needed is an “enterprise pack” from someone other than Google which adds all the necessary features and provides extremely granular control to the enterprise. If [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post What Defines “Enterprise Readiness” in Mobility? · View
An interesting blog post from an MVP…enterprise app moved from 6.5 to 7 in only about 7 days. Surprising. Good side by side screen shots, too: http://blog.markarteaga.com/GoingFromWindowsPhone65ToWindowsPhone7.aspx While there are caveats about that particular app (it was already managed code, etc.), I don’t think the burden is as heavy as some have been predicting. And [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post The Evolution of Exchange ActiveSync in Mobile Device Management · View
As they guy who had just a wee little bit of involvement in System Center Mobile Device Manager (oh I can sense the invectives heading my way already) I’ll be the first to say that it’s not an either-or world. Exchange, as the most common enterprise mail infrastrucutre, can and should provide lightweight management for [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post Does Numerology Have an Impact on Mobility? · View
Mobile is a little too new? The first mobile enterprise app I deployed (for retail inventory analysis, on Casio Handheld PCs) was over 13 years ago. Remember Comdex in 1996? Remember when there actually was a thing called Comdex? http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1996/nov96/wincepr.mspx. My point is, sometimes folks at Microsoft take such a customer-focused approach that they believe [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post Does Numerology Have an Impact on Mobility? · View
Your comment about the need for innovation is spot on, although your stated reason for the lack of innovation likely has a lot more to do with maintaining backward compatibility than with numerology. Microsoft puts forth an incredible effort to make old buggy code run well in newer versions of Windows. But after several versions [...]
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post Holy Buyout Batman! HP Acquires Palm · View
No one expected HP to be the knight in shining armor, eh? The name HP never crossed my mind either, but apparently this one guy had it pegged in November of 2009. Luck or brilliant insight? http://www.precentral.net/round-table-palm-sale
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post Making The Case For HTC Buying Palm: The Enterprise Mobility Perspective · View
The speculation about webOS moving to other “mobile devices” (iPad competitor anyone?) is interesting and suggests a potentially significant shift in the mix (and complexity!) of the enterprise OS platform on more than just mobile phones.
All the details from the HP webcast this afternoon: http://h30261.www3.hp.com/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=71087&eventID=3051841
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post Announcing The Enterprise Mobility Foundation · View
Congratulations Philippe on the launch of The EMF. With the trend in the consumerization of enterprise IT, which arguably is led by the consumerization of enterprise mobility, the launch of The Foundation and this forum is timely. I look forward to engaging with enterprise users, IT professionals, and vendors alike.
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post Measuring Your Enterprise Mobility Investments · View
I found an interesting bit on the cost side of this equation. The comment about hiring staff to review phone bills and enforce policy costing more than any savings from having a policy was interesting–but then it’s not all about cost, either.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/192268/who_should_own_your_smartphones.html
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John Traynor from BSQUARE Corporation commented on the blog post Crack and Enterprise Mobility Just Don’t Mix – Part V · View
Interesting that someone from Canonical takes such a position. Ubuntu is the “tightest” Linux (more than others, it works out of the box, many defaults, very few necessary configuration choices for the “average user”, etc.). And yet Linux share remains very tiny in the universe of “average user” desktops. Android seems destined to become to [...]
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