Re:Facebook Gizmo
by KaiserPro on Monday September 28, 2020 @04:01AM
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There are literally thousands of these machines at each office.
Maintaining a fleet of android devices sucks hard, especially when they are on devices that are not really designed to be remotely controlled (any kind of tablet is really not that well designed to be managed remotely (ie has batteries, only works on wifi, not onboard TPM thats useful))
Plus they are posted in every room where sensitive conversations are going on, not only that there is a list of who's going to be in those meetings. Not only that, they have access to video conferencing in each room as well.
Combine that with the portal offering, I can see the compelling value add.
as for "not a hardware company" their datacentres are almost entirely custom.
Maintaining a fleet of android devices sucks hard, especially when they are on devices that are not really designed to be remotely controlled (any kind of tablet is really not that well designed to be managed remotely (ie has batteries, only works on wifi, not onboard TPM thats useful))
Plus they are posted in every room where sensitive conversations are going on, not only that there is a list of who's going to be in those meetings. Not only that, they have access to video conferencing in each room as well.
Combine that with the portal offering, I can see the compelling value add.
as for "not a hardware company" their datacentres are almost entirely custom.