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Though Apple don't provide a corporate mobile email service, so there isn't the same kind of lock-in in this case, right?
by gmac 14y ago
Though Apple don't provide a corporate mobile email service, so there isn't the same kind of lock-in in this case, right?
- brohee 14y agoNo but Apple going out of business (what they fear of Blackberry, even if unlikely short term) would hinder their ability to deploy software, which is pretty bad too.
- ralfd 14y agoI would say Apple going out of business is unlikely long term! By the way: In-house developed apps are not depending on Apples App store. http://www.apple.com/business/accelerator/ http://www.apple.com/business/accelerator/
- joezydeco 14y agoBut they do depend on Apple's signing of the app before installation on the phone, right?
- danudey 14y agoFor development, Apple signs a certificate that lets you sign your own binaries, plus a provisioning profile that the phone uses to determine if it can run the app. Presumably for the corporate version, they just give you a certificate you can use to sign, and one that you put on company phones so they're willing to run your software.
- pyre 14y agoI would say Apple going out of business is unlikely long term! This is true. Apple has reached a Microsoft level, where it would take an act of god for the business to completely go under at this point. If it does go out of business, it will be gradually over the course of many years.
- protomyth 14y agoGiven the amount of companies running Exchange, Apple is an inviting solution. I would argue that these companies are pretty much locked into a Microsoft e-mail solution.
- omh 14y agoA lot of what's going on here is the time spent investigating what works, deciding what to support and documenting everything. That might not be literally "lock-in", but there's always a significant cost to move.