> If as a company, you aren't managing your devices [...] you're reliant on the custodian of the phone to do the right thing when turning over the device. Prec

> If as a company, you aren't managing your devices [...] you're reliant on the custodian of the phone to do the right thing when turning over the device. Precisely - and companies aren't going to want to purchase phones that they can't manage. Of course, this might be a moot point; I've never seen a company-issued iPhone before, so maybe Apple doesn't even want to be in that market (I might just be hanging around the wrong people, though). > NSA/et al prefers [...] While encrypting data while it's transiting the internet might have an effect on the NSA, encrypting data stored locally (like with the iPhone encryption debacle) won't affect them at all. When was the last time the NSA had your phone in its possession? It will affect criminal investigations. I think Apple would have stirred up a lot less controversy if they had marketed their encryption as protecting the data on your lost phone from criminals instead of marketing it as protecting it from the cops.