Re:My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000
by mgkimsal on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:30PM
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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'.
Re:My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000
by randomdata on Friday August 26, 2011 @01:30AM
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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.
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.