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When you signed your agreement, that Android technology didn't exist, so reserving themselves the right to get root on your devices accessing corporate informat

by the-rc 6y ago

When you signed your agreement, that Android technology didn't exist, so reserving themselves the right to get root on your devices accessing corporate information was the closest, yet very blunt, approximation. Personal devices were highly discouraged or even forbidden for a long time, but employees kept asking about them, for the convenience. These use cases and internal dogfooding were major factors in the eventual development of Android Enterprise and related products.

rachelbythebay 6y ago
That doesn't track. By the time they pulled this crap (including the "you didn't sign it, would you sign it again?" and it turned out to be different), we had been given at least one Android phone (ADP1) and maybe the second as well (N1).
- the-rc 6y ago
  I dogfooded pretty much everything from the G1 to the N5, Xoom included. Until Lollipop or Marshmallow arrived, we were discouraged or forbidden from having corporate accounts on personal phones, because there weren't the necessary Blackberry-style features yet, e.g. remote wiping. I remember Honeycomb (the Xoom) having only encryption, but no wiping. At some point you could add your work account as the primary on your personal gift phones (dogfood ones were a different story), but that meant that the device got bricked when you left the company, forcing you to a factory reset — and there was still no good isolation. I definitely had my personal account as the primary on my N5 along with a work profile and I believe that's the first device/OS combo where it was feasible, if you ignored the annoying duplicate app icons in the launcher. The first truly "tolerated" personal devices were probably the Christmas gift Chromebooks from a few years earlier, as long as you used Yubikeys. Didn't the policies even predate Android? They definitely were there well before Lollipop. Unless they were introduced post-Aurora, in 2010 — i.e. in the N1/Eclair days, keeping the phone vintage theme.

by the-rc 6y ago

rachelbythebay 6y ago

That doesn't track. By the time they pulled this crap (including the "you didn't sign it, would you sign it again?" and it turned out to be different), we had been given at least one Android phone (ADP1) and maybe the second as well (N1).

the-rc 6y ago
I dogfooded pretty much everything from the G1 to the N5, Xoom included. Until Lollipop or Marshmallow arrived, we were discouraged or forbidden from having corporate accounts on personal phones, because there weren't the necessary Blackberry-style features yet, e.g. remote wiping. I remember Honeycomb (the Xoom) having only encryption, but no wiping. At some point you could add your work account as the primary on your personal gift phones (dogfood ones were a different story), but that meant that the device got bricked when you left the company, forcing you to a factory reset — and there was still no good isolation. I definitely had my personal account as the primary on my N5 along with a work profile and I believe that's the first device/OS combo where it was feasible, if you ignored the annoying duplicate app icons in the launcher. The first truly "tolerated" personal devices were probably the Christmas gift Chromebooks from a few years earlier, as long as you used Yubikeys. Didn't the policies even predate Android? They definitely were there well before Lollipop. Unless they were introduced post-Aurora, in 2010 — i.e. in the N1/Eclair days, keeping the phone vintage theme.