Philippe, I’m afraid the pendulum has only just begun its swing. This is no blip or speed bump. Saying “ni” (props to Monte Python) to BYOD is a career limiting move for IT folks. Their task and challenge is “how” to enable it. I agree that BYOD may not be “strategy”, but it is a [...]

Sorry, Philippe. The critique wasn’t directed at you! You know I know that you know the distinctions!

Thanks to you Philippe for launching the EMF. Let’s expand the dialog to many, many more and for many, many more years.

Great post. 100% agree about AUP having to be simple… if not a page or less. That’s the example set by Apple and the “user manual” you find when cracking open the box of your new iPhone. That relates to an axiom: If your technology (or policy) is so complex that it requires a user [...]

Philippe, you know I get pedantic and crazy around words/acronyms and their meaning. BYOD is a trend (more people “bringing”) and a challenge (how to enable/secure/manage devices that have done been “brought”!). COPE is the flip side to same coin – a trend and a slightly different array of challenges. BYOD is not… a product, [...]

BYOD has actually been a force for change. Without it, we might still be here discussing which flavor of Blackberry we’d be getting this (or next) year. We might still be discussing the marvels of RIM’s QWERTY and the next 20 BES features. We might not be discussing Apps. And perhaps worst of all, we’d [...]

Hoorah, Philippe! Enterproid would happily support your discussion. Dual work/personal usage (BYOD/COPE) creates immense challenges on the enterprise in terms of privacy and liability issues. Worse yet, those issues are evolving fast. I’d normally apply the “go to where the hockey puck is going” rule, but it’s not clear which way that is!

Yes, wish I’d been at the CITE conference! BYOD and COPE are two sides of the same coin. The basic challenge = how do I enable personal and business use on the same device? The question begs all sorts of security, compliance, liability and privacy issues, so let’s first acknowledge that “BYOD programs” are going [...]

Whether BYOD or COPE, the challenge is how to allow for mixed-use models – including a slew of governance, security, liability and privacy issues. Why allow mixed use? My wife’s employer is a rather vast organization, and my wife exemplifies the problem that is getting worse and worse = “dead battery, at the bottom of [...]

Sorry, had to return as “email as killer app” just nagged at me. Nuts. You can’t explain any of the TECTONIC SHIFT in mobility since iPhone (2007) based on “email is the killer app”. And not just for consumers. Enterprises got the memo. If it ain’t Salesforce.com, Oracle, Peoplesoft etc selling their Apps to IT, [...]

MDM and MAM aren’t in a horse race. Not at all. They’re on a collision course. Arguably (in my feeble mind), neither is enough to deliver complete or robust manageability and security. The two categories will steal features and capabilities from the other. Collisions have different effects based on who’s bigger (vague memories from physics [...]

MDM is evolving. It will continue to evolve. In the unlikely case it doesn’t? Yes, commoditization and death are deserved. MDM may be better viewed as “how we founded our company (or our original technology platform)”. Smart MDM vendors are adding layers of security (DLP, email filtering, anti-malware etc). Some may offer or partner for [...]

No, at least no where near the degree to which true of Windows. Android, yes. iOS – different execution, but yes. Whatever the taxonomy on “platforms”, RIM’s cash position is atrocious. Their current cash position gives them no wiggle room – especially if you think there’ll be further decline in Q-over-Q sales. Can’t as easily [...]

They tend to be shared within an auto company (across its brands). Occasionally you’ll see components like engines sourced across company lines, but car components don’t count as platforms. Rephrased as question – is there any car component that has as many technologies and companies relying on it than Microsoft has for Windows? Windows is [...]

I don’t think “can do no right/wrong” is an emotional or tech-political thing. Sure, there are fan-boys for all the players, but much of the Google/Apple enthusiasm is based on their success or trajectory. Maybe the odd person calls it right on the reasons ahead of the curve, but performance is the only measure. You [...]

No! I’ll resist expounding with my market theories (technology market), but I’ll point you to one very, very forbidding number – RIM’s cash position. So the better question might be: “Can all the four players survive this market?”. It don’t look pretty, and this may explain why only a limited number of ecosystems will eventually [...]

Yes, in theory… imagining future Nick in one year and using iOS/Android of TODAY? Sure, I’d try it. Convinced of it? No. The glass-half-full of Windows 8 = wow, it doesn’t suck! Good, MS has a chance. Glass-half-empty? By the time we hold it in hand, it may fall behind alternatives. I’ll be deeper committed [...]

150M subs? That number will be SIGNIFICANTLY lower in one year when Windows 8 hits the market. A year in mobile/computing is an eternity.