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Two sentences in, there are three cryptic acronyms - MDM, BES and BYOD. Apparently the "customers" that the letter was written for are not Blackberry's end user
by psobot 13y ago
Two sentences in, there are three cryptic acronyms - MDM, BES and BYOD. Apparently the "customers" that the letter was written for are not Blackberry's end users.
- jfb 13y agoWell, yeah. Selling to humans was a side effect of the sad state of the smartphone market pre-iOS/Android.
- gaius 13y agoThat would be why the first line is To our valued *enterprise* customers
- Zenst 13y agoTrue, but in a far smaller font than the headline "An Open Letter to Customers", which is technicaly the first line of this statment. But hardly good when such confusion is evident, heck BIS was enterprise and BES was consumer, see why people confused with such magical boundaries of consumer.
- untog 13y agoBear in mind that the only reason you are reading this is because someone posted it to HN. I imagine they sent it out by e-mail to enterprise customers, and not anyone else.
- jlgaddis 13y ago>* ... heck BIS was enterprise and BES was consumer ... You've got that flipped around.
- Zenst 13y agoYour right - my bad.
- BackerHopez 13y agoI can hear your crying from here
- rubinelli 13y agoMDM - Mobile Device Management BYOD - Bring Your Own Device BES - BlackBerry Enterprise... Something?
- zalew 13y agoServer
- seanc 13y agoThey most certainly were not! They were written for CIO's and the like. For the record: MDM - Mobile Device Management - a thing to integrate management of a companies cell phones BES - BlackBerry Enterprise Server - the MDM made by BlackBerry BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - The practice of employees using personal cell phones for company business. The company deploys some set of apps and services onto the device which allows them some measure of control over it, and the employee gets to use a mobile device that they are comfortable with.
- asmithmd1 13y agoI knew those but EMM tripped me up - any idea?
- agilebyte 13y agoEnterprise Mobility Management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Mobility_Management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Mobility_Management
- moron4hire 13y agoEnterprise Messaging Management? Googling reveals Enterprise Mobility Management.
- nsxwolf 13y agoEnterprise Mobility Management. From Wikipedia: "Enterprise mobility management (EMM) is the set of people, processes and technology focused on managing the increasing array of mobile devices, wireless networks, and related services to enable broad use of mobile computing in a business context." Yikes.
- Kronopath 13y ago"Enterprise mobility management (EMM) is ... processes ... focused on managing ... mobile devices ... in a business context." If you ignore 90% of the words in that sentence, it becomes much more understandable.
- jorgem 13y agoMy first day at my first job after college I recieved a manual labeled: TLA's & FLA's. Big companies are just that way.