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Hmm... I thought that they would want to limit it to one or the other, for security purposes.
by jivatmanx 14y ago
Hmm... I thought that they would want to limit it to one or the other, for security purposes.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoHow do you mean?
- georgemcbay 14y agoIt only makes sense to use a single platform if that platform has proven to be more secure than the others. Neither Android nor iOS has proven to be inherently more secure than the other (both have had plenty of in-the-wild exploits... the basis of most jailbreaking is due to such exploits). If neither platform is provably more secure, it makes more sense to allow both because in a fully homogeneous environment a single new exploit opens all the doors while in a mixed system environment, it only opens a subset of them.
- m0nastic 14y agoIf it's not a BYOD environment, you can pick one specific recent Android handset, or replace the OS with a custom image, and you have about 80% of what iOS allows for management (which is in turn about 80% of what BES provided). In a BYOD environment (which my current company is piloting), Android makes it much more of a nightmare, but thankfully almost everyone here has iPhones.