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Company bans Android due to security risks related to fragmentation

6 points by happyscrappy 11y ago

PaulHoule 11y ago
It's astonishing how the media has suppressed the story of the Android 5 failure, which was much worse than the Windows 8 failure. I installed Android 5 on my Nexus tablet and immediately found the tablet was half as fast, the WiFi unreliable, and all sorts of other problems. All for the tinfoil hat protection against the NSA, using cryptography without appropriate hardware acceleration. Vendors have not moved to Android 5 because of these problems but you never heard of it because the news media is much more afraid of Google than they were afraid of Microsoft back in its day -- Google can make their traffic drop and make their ad revenue go away.
krisgenre 11y ago
65% of Android devices using less than Jellybean version? Where did they get that info?
taylodl 11y ago
I'm an enterprise architect heading up our mobility practice for an American-based Fortune 200 company and we don't allowed Android devices on our network precisely for security issues. They're allowed on our guest wireless network that terminates outside our perimeter firewall, but that's it. That's not a particularly popular choice as a have a BYOMD program that's effectively restricted to Windows Mobile and iOS devices and a lot of our users have Android devices and are miffed they can't use them. We've bent over backwards in our attempts to secure Android, all to no avail. We've had Samsung onsite and worked with their Knox technology, and though that came really close it ended up not panning out for all the security cases. Google could be ceding a lot by ignoring the corporate market. Now that we're building native iOS apps guess what? We're buying lots of iMacs. Two years ago that would have been unheard of. Heck a year ago that would have been unheard of. Now here I am with a shiny new iMac on my desk and VMware Fusion to simultaneously run Windows. The story just dropped a couple of days ago that IBM is purchasing 50,000+ Macs from Apple, which also would have been unheard of a couple of years ago. I don't have an axe to grind against Android and would love for my users to be able to use their Android devices but it just isn't there. I'm really quite surprised how Google has dropped the ball in this space.

6 points by happyscrappy 11y ago

It's astonishing how the media has suppressed the story of the Android 5 failure, which was much worse than the Windows 8 failure. I installed Android 5 on my Nexus tablet and immediately found the tablet was half as fast, the WiFi unreliable, and all sorts of other problems. All for the tinfoil hat protection against the NSA, using cryptography without appropriate hardware acceleration. Vendors have not moved to Android 5 because of these problems but you never heard of it because the news media is much more afraid of Google than they were afraid of Microsoft back in its day -- Google can make their traffic drop and make their ad revenue go away.

krisgenre 11y ago

65% of Android devices using less than Jellybean version? Where did they get that info?

taylodl 11y ago

I'm an enterprise architect heading up our mobility practice for an American-based Fortune 200 company and we don't allowed Android devices on our network precisely for security issues. They're allowed on our guest wireless network that terminates outside our perimeter firewall, but that's it. That's not a particularly popular choice as a have a BYOMD program that's effectively restricted to Windows Mobile and iOS devices and a lot of our users have Android devices and are miffed they can't use them. We've bent over backwards in our attempts to secure Android, all to no avail. We've had Samsung onsite and worked with their Knox technology, and though that came really close it ended up not panning out for all the security cases. Google could be ceding a lot by ignoring the corporate market. Now that we're building native iOS apps guess what? We're buying lots of iMacs. Two years ago that would have been unheard of. Heck a year ago that would have been unheard of. Now here I am with a shiny new iMac on my desk and VMware Fusion to simultaneously run Windows. The story just dropped a couple of days ago that IBM is purchasing 50,000+ Macs from Apple, which also would have been unheard of a couple of years ago. I don't have an axe to grind against Android and would love for my users to be able to use their Android devices but it just isn't there. I'm really quite surprised how Google has dropped the ball in this space.