My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000

Re:My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000 by mgkimsal on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:02PM (#2925568)

I thought that at first too, but I think it could be interpreted a couple other ways too.

What we've seen over the last 10 years or so is the increased consumerization of the enterprise. Essentially, large IT depts have been forced to accommodate iPhones and iPads, due to large numbers of people buying them then saying "I want to use this at work", rather than Apple having to accomodate "enterprise" needs (and thereby perpetuating often antiquated or just poor ways of doing things).

I'm generalizing here a bit, but that's another way I'd read it. It probably would have been difficult for people in the late 90s to foresee how much consumerization of IT we'd see 10-15 years in the future

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Re:My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000 by tommi on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:08PM (#2925605)

Also the needs of consumer and a enterprise have converged. Everybody expects to able to read email on their phone. Many people expect their consumer laptops to be able to encrypt their hard drive (at least Apple users) just like the enterprise IT department. The difference between enterprise and consumer as an IT user has become smaller.

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Re:My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000 by cbs on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:17PM (#2925642)

rather than Apple having to accomodate "enterprise" needs (and thereby perpetuating often antiquated or just poor ways of doing things).

Thats kind of a plastering over of the reality though.

iOS plays nice with ActiveSync, right there thats Apple accommodating enterprise needs. I can hit up exchange to remote wipe any employee's iPhone right now.

Its not that IT departments are forced to accommodate iPhones, they're forced to accommodate yet another smartphone.

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Re:My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000 by mgkimsal on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:30PM (#2925695)

Yes, I did realize I was generalizing some. But... Apple's supported some of those protocols, but not out of the gate, and they've not built their initial products around some competitor's idea about a market (at least, not that I've seen). So... yes with the iPhone, they did accomodate "the enterprise", but didn't base the success of the iPhone on how well it was accepted by 'the enterprise'.

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Re:My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000 by randomdata on Friday August 26, 2011 @01:30AM (#2927499)

One could easily look at it from the opposite direction:

Consumers want to access their company email on their personal property. The inclusion of ActiveSync wasn't to help enterprise IT departments, it was the help the consumer access the resources they want to access.

That said, there are other features of iOS that do support your point of view.

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Re:My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000 by VladRussian on Thursday August 25, 2011 @07:08PM (#2926744)

>What we've seen over the last 10 years or so is the increased consumerization of the enterprise. Essentially, large IT depts have been forced to accommodate iPhones and iPads, ...

i'd not say "consumerization of the enterprise" is limited to the last 10 years - it is more like for the last almost 30 years "large IT depts have been forced to accommodate" PC, notebooks, iPhones, iPads ... (mental implants? ask Jobs what is the next :)

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