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"MDM vendors are undoubtedly inviting you to webinars and enticing you to switch off your BES." They're trying to tell me an actual human typed that sentence?
by droob 13y ago
"MDM vendors are undoubtedly inviting you to webinars and enticing you to switch off your BES."
They're trying to tell me an actual human typed that sentence?
- jwr 13y agoI think this is a way to reach their target audience and I think it just might make sense. Think of it as them going to their roots. You are not their target audience.
- asmithmd1 13y agoThey are done. They STILL have no clue they aren't the center of the universe. Who knows (or cares) what this sentence means: "We’re serious about multi-platform MDM and even more serious about multi-platform EMM"
- cones688 13y ago> or cares Go tell CISO/CIO (or Auditor) of a fortune 500 that they don't need to care what company data/emails are on peoples phones/tablets or whether its under the companies control. Your lack of interest shows that this isn't relevant to you, it would be arrogant to assume the rest of the world doesn't care about it - in the same way lots of people don't care about how lean your startup is or what VC drinks social you went to the other night.
- asmithmd1 13y agoI am an interested person who is reasonably schooled in the art. You are absolutely right that many people need to care about controlling data/email on peoples devices - and your sentence does a much better job explaining the issue than their letter does.
- peeters 13y agoPeople that administer enterprise network and security infrastructure, for starters. Who are the target audience of this letter. This letter is not directed towards consumers.
- HillRat 13y agoIt's one thing to know and care, but another thing to pull it off. I dealt with RIM/BB not all that long ago on behalf of an M2M prospect and was thoroughly underwhelmed; the QNX team we dealt with was sharp and fully on-point, but I got the sense that RIM was holding them back. In the end, using BB would have increased our hardware BOM by an order of magnitude (literally, they suggested we buy smartphones and use them as the basis of the hardware), so it made zero sense versus a more traditional route. It's a shame, really. QNX is a fantastic solution supported by a brilliant team, but one that's hobbled to a hardware vendor with zero vision and even less ability to execute.
- smoyer 13y agoEnterprises lost the BYOD war ... if you offer SMTPS, POPS and IMAPS as a way for an employee's clients to connect to your infrastructure, you've already decided to allow a connection from their personal devices. Smart enterprises have recognized this, hardened their core network and then taken advantage of the cost reductions offered by BYOD.
- untog 13y agoWhat's wrong with it? Does the average consumer understand what it means? No. Is this targeted at them? No. If you saw a post that started, "Java applet vendors are undoubtedly inviting you to webinars and enticing you to switch off your HTML-based system" would you throw up your hands and say that the message failed?
- jlgaddis 13y agoThe whole letter made perfect sense to me but I managed BES years ago.