I know where you're coming from -- a key reason Blackberry failed in my view was that it was pitched to corporate IT and stopped people from doing anything on t

I know where you're coming from -- a key reason Blackberry failed in my view was that it was pitched to corporate IT and stopped people from doing anything on their device. This worked until the time when people in charge of actual important departments (not BOFHs) were getting iphones for their wives and kids, and wanted to be able to play angry birds on their phone. As that wasn't possible on a blackberry thanks to the IT policies, they said "fine, give me my mail on my iphone as I'm not carrying two phones" In other organisations I'm sure those IT policies remain, but certainly in my part of my organisation I have a vanilla desktop, which replaced my vanilla laptop (haven't used it for 3 years). There's a corporate laptop (which is vanila OSX with MDM), but more and more corporate services are available on web and I haven't used it for over a year. I haven't paid for a mobile phone since I got my first work phone in 2006 (when phones were just for phone calls and sms). Most people in my organization that had phones back then (we tend to stay in the same company for life) are still one-device people. So yes, from an organisation point of view, it's an antiquated mindset about control over worker drones. In my experience, it's younger people who didn't join or get to a point where they had a work phone until after the smartphone revolution, that tend to carry two phones - a personal one and a work one.