Work support Blackberry only

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macs over pc is a different argument over android vs blackberry mate
if anything you kind of killed your own argument

BB has proven longer battery life over any other smart phone
Blackberry enterprise server has about 160+ more policies than exchange push
Blackberry browser can be forced to go through server proxy
Blackberry can view and browse files with the corporate network
Blackberry can view shared contact directories within exchange
Blackberry can have applications controlled by policy
Blackberry can have have 3rd party software deployed to groups of handheld completely unattended by the user
Blackberry has higher level encryption than any other device.
thats to name a few things Exchange push CANNOT do

i work with both and support both

its not about FANBOI, its about control and security of which is the most important to business models

Erm no I didn't kill my argument. My point was that people who don't need a certain phone but buy it because "it's cool" or it makes them look more important while they don't use any of the above features (except battery life obviously) and only make calls with it DO NOT NEED ONE. That makes it a status symbol - in fact, it's the very definition of it. When people buy a BMW but are single and don't need a car that has such a powerful engine (which can do more than twice the maximum limit on most highways) then that's a status symbol as well even of that BMW has a lot of cool features ... which they'd rarely use.

Besides, Mac fanboys will tell a different story and will give you a list as well why Macs are better than PCs. Mostly nonsense of course like how Final Cut Pro always ends up at the top of these lists which is frankly laughable considering the pile of software exclusive to PC would make it a laughing stock.

But the thing is: so many people buy both Blackberries and iMacs because they are associated with a certain group of people. I would bet a million that over half the Blackberry users don't even know what these features above mean let alone use them. At work, three of our "executives" (in a company with a mere 35 people, that's a silly ego title) got a Blackberry despite them not even having Internet access with it. In the company next door, same story and nearly every representative of a company that drops by has one too yet at most, they use it to read emails. The ONLY people at work I've seen use Blackberries properly are those working for telecom companies.

Oh and I agree 100% that Blackberries are important to those that need them, but that wasn't the point. The point was that it's silly for companies to enforce a strict use of only Blackberries when they don't make use of its real power. Having been an IT professional before being graphic designer, I know all too well about expensive gear mostly going unused and you won't convince me otherwise. It's depressing how much quality hardware barely gets 10% of its potential utilised.

 

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i disagree, up till about 2 years ago blackberries in eu were only really available for the corporate infrastructure that could use the whole functionality.
and blackberries have only really taken off in the consumer market in the last year or so when they became super cheep with the 8520 so kids could spam eachother on BBIM
majority of BB users are still within high level corporate infrastructure globally.

there are still more consumer iphones and androids out there than blackberries.
im yet to find a true blackberry fanboi/girl other than the ones that use it for business and understand it is ACTUALLY better than any other device for the purpose as its been optimised and designed for that purpose from day one rather than being a bolt on like other devices including our beloved desire.

you forget its his WORK that is telling him they only allow blackberries and its likely for the many reasons i have given.

the 1st blackberries didnt even have a phone lol they are thoroughbred.
in respect to your executives, its likely they have rich exectutive mates that have them and shown them how they work so they got some freebies from the phone provider.

every major league bank in the world have them and rely on them for a reason. reliability and being secure.

the debate is pointless anyway as its known by most people who work within technologies like push email that blackberries are currently the best solution and that was what i said to start with.
nothing about fanboi this, iphone that.
i happen to be very pro-android. you cant beat a blackberry at what it does as microshite hasnt set up the infrastructure to do it and there is not a droid on this planet that would last more than 24hrs with this solution enabled.

also people would rage, "android it policy deployed - marked access is prohibited"

 

[SUroot]

"technically"
except if anything goes wrong with bes or exchange it requies rebooting both infrastructures at the same time.
BES 5 BAS uses 500mb of ram when idle, the resource is high
The only thing RIM support is BESxpress when installed on the same machine (virtual or hardware) previously professional and even then they frown upon it.

its not good practice putting something that heavily utilises mapi and other resources on the same box as the mail host
even worse if TS is installed

it can work but it can be a nightmare

Yeah but corporate environment... 2x bare metal hypervisors. Jobs a good un