The blog and the responses from fanbois just demonstrate the evangelistical nature of Apple users or Apple stooges using it for PR. There¹s lots to love and a fair bit that be frustrating about Apple. The responses are typical of the Y generation it¹s all about ³me² - ³I want an iPad and I¹m gonna have it.² It¹s pretty easy to go IT Dept bashing. The IT team are charged with providing an infrastructure that supports all users and significantly, provides security of information and access. I don¹t blame corporate IT departments for being hesitant about iPads. The iPad is a personal device and it¹s not secure. I¹m quite happy for a politician to have an iPad to play Angry Birds but not for accessing state secrets. I agree that the sooner all web sites move to HTML5 the better and the experience on iPad will be much better. But it doesn¹t fully integrate into business or government networks. Apple makes consumer products and they underlined that by dropping XServe. They would like to get Apple products into enterprises and it will probably happen by stealth. I¹d like to know how you¹d get an iPad to match the security that can be applied via a corporate network. We¹re working with schools to put iPads into an education environment which works really well, but it isn¹t easy when they want a multi-user device (which the iPad isn¹t) and they want an easy way to license and deploy applications. I¹ve said before I can understand people have a view from their own world of the home network, but it isn¹t quite the same in a large network environment.
BTW, I love my Apple iMac, MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone. I¹m just not wearing rose coloured glasses. On 8/09/11 1:52 PM, "cm" <cm200...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like it. :-) The excuses from IT sound all too familiar as if a Windows > notebook sets such a high security standard that an iPad couldn't possibly > match it. Also the Web sites that aren't completely viewable must either have > elements of Adobe Flash or they don't meet HTML standards. Either way they > will do the public a favour by updating the sites. > > It would be nice to have the politicians' clout to speed iPad deployment in > other areas. > > Cheers, > Carlo > > Sent from my iPad > > On 08/09/2011, at 13:22, Pedro <pfow...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >>> >>> Got to love our local pollies >> >>> >>> http://www.cultofmac.com/aussie-politicos-demand-ipads-it-headaches-ensue/11 >>> 2726#more-112726 >>> <http://www.cultofmac.com/aussie-politicos-demand-ipads-it-headaches-ensue/1 >>> 12726#more-112726> >>> >>> >>> iPadro >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
