{"id":324,"date":"2009-03-29T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-03-29T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T18:12:33","slug":"%e2%80%98what-will-be-the-most-widely-adopted-enterprise-mobile-device-in-2009%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/29\/%e2%80%98what-will-be-the-most-widely-adopted-enterprise-mobile-device-in-2009%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What will be the most widely adopted Enterprise Mobile Device in 2009?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few people have written<\/a> about this over the last few days but I thought I\u2019d mention a few things I\u2019ve not seen mentioned elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\"LinkedInPoll\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Over on LinkedIn<\/a> there\u2019s a Poll<\/a> asking the question \u2018What will be the widestly adopted Enterprise Mobile Device in 2009?\u2019.\u00a0 Although not that scientific (there\u2019s no accounting for whether the respondents are actually in a position to assess or\u00a0influence the matter) it does pose some interesting questions, for example is the iPhone ready for widespread enterprise adoption?<\/p>\n

I reckon it is, but within limits.\u00a0 For people that just want a smartphone that will access their mailbox, calendar, contacts and the web then I reckon the iPhone does a fantastic job.\u00a0 It\u2019s not perfect<\/a>\u00a0by any means, but for your average\u00a0 user it’s fine.\u00a0 It does pretty much everything Windows Mobile can do but with a tad more style, and without the extra infrastructure\/services a Blackberry solution would need.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, by supporting Microsoft\u2019s ActiveSync protocol not only does it play nicely with Exchange, it also supports Exchange\u2019s basic device management<\/a> capabilities (enforce pin codes, remote wipe etc).\u00a0 That support makes the iPhone a lot more acceptable to corporate IS departments \u2013 quite how many use device management is another matter\u2026<\/p>\n

Of course if you have existing mobile applications you need to support then the iPhone may not fit quite yet.\u00a0 But business apps are starting to trickle through onto the App Store (Salesforce<\/a>, Oracle<\/a>) and with Apples simple model for publishing and distribution I’m sure many more will follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To me though the key thing the iPhone has in its favour are the end users.\u00a0 Ultimately to most people, phones and smartphones \u2013 even their work ones – are personal devices.\u00a0 And even as a long time Windows Mobile user I have to say that the iPhone walks all over it\u2019s competition as a phone everyone can use and enjoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’m still looking forward to seeing Windows Mobile 6.5 and 7.0 though\u2026 :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on LinkedIn there\u2019s a Poll asking the question \u2018What will be the widestly adopted Enterprise Mobile Device in 2009?\u2019. Although not that scientific (there\u2019s no accounting for whether the respondents are actually in a position to influence the matter) it does pose some interesting questions, for example is the iPhone ready for widespread enterprise adoption?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,35,121,247,13,246,245,58],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-enterprise","tag-iphone","tag-linkedin","tag-microsoft","tag-oracle","tag-salesforcecom","tag-windows-mobile","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}