Comments on: Employees Are Begging for iPhone; What Should a CIO Do?

By: robwoodbridge

robwoodbridge — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:08:32 +0000

I would agree that the CIO is concerned with security but usability, battery and browser don't seem to me to be important at the CIO level. One thing that should be high on every CIO's list of reasons to adopt a device — any device — are the number of enterprise-grade applications that contribute to their users' job capabilities. If you don't have applications that help people do their job, adoption (or a need for adoption) becomes cumbersome.

By: robwoodbridge

robwoodbridge — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:08:32 +0000

By: robwoodbridge

robwoodbridge — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:08:32 +0000

By: Blad_Rnr

Blad_Rnr — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:57:55 +0000

Yes, I agree with the comments above. Windows is a security block of Swiss cheese. Everybody knows it. Heck, McAfee and Symantec know it. We are an all-Mac shop and I don't even run any AV software on my Macs. When the first real virus comes out, I'll start installing it. But Windows has over 200K+ viruses and Windows IT people want to bury their heads in the sand. I can't believe these banks run their inline services on Windows servers. Their IT folks must have their CEOs hoodwinked.

And the smart phone comparison is laughable. I have had a first generation iPhone for over a year now. Virtually no issues. My wife just bought a Blackberry Curve. I thought this would be interesting to compare. In the first four days she has had to reinstall the OS, can't figure out how to change ring tones for individual events, had to wait an extra day for the Mac version of the Blackberry Manager to arrive to download on her Mac laptop, and now she can't get the web browser to work. Oh, and the web browsing experience when it did work was pathetic. Then my cousin suggested she download an app that rebooted her phone once a day to prevent some sort of memory leak or such. And this is called the Crackberry by some?! Please. My iPhone runs circles around her phone and is so much easier to use. I was appalled to think some people think the Curve is great and wonderful.

By: Rich G

Rich G — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:29:20 +0000

My concern is with security (Not a windows fan by any means) but not the worry of breach of the phone but the data on the phone. There needs to be a way to secure the data, especially the company assets that are stream via e-mail. I think if you are going to use the phone for work someone needs to write a local data encryption application that protects or walls off the company assets without walling off the personal fun. Bigger converstation then this but that is a good 2 cent blurb

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:05:00 +0000

How is it that a person with racks of Windows servers running their enterprise can talk down the iPhone with security as an argument without giggling to themselves?

By: slappy

slappy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:35:16 +0000

@adanc

Thats the billion dollar question that “no one” seems to ask within the industry. Despite the breaches with Windows time and time again thats reported, IT still hypocritically deny Mac products, using security as an argument. Hilarious isn't it?

By: adanc

adanc — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:42:53 +0000

If security is an issue, why the IT is still using Windows in the enterprise.

Just a bunch of hypocrites because of their jobs security – with the iPhone they may end up with nothing to support just like the Mac.