I posted in this thread a little bit ago. I couldn't find anything coherent to say at the time. Now I have something to say.
I will be pushing for our current & future customers to use alternative device vendors as part of our product stack. We have developed a cross platform implementation of our iOS application recently, and this is a great opportunity to start putting it to use.
I don't know if Apple is paying attention, but there are enterprise customers out there paying them $300/yr for the permission to use their presumably-secure devices for purposes of running custom LOB applications. Our organization and product are part of the reason you have financial institutions making bulk purchases of iPads and other Apple accessories.
If Apple makes it impossible for us to provide assurances to our customers that no data is leaving the devices (aside from agreed-upon application protocols), then we have a serious problem. I am not putting myself in a position where I push a customer to purchase 1000+ iPads for their business if I will then have to answer to their auditors 6 months later on when sensitive customer documents hashes or whatever other horrible things start getting sent to the mothership as part of v2.0 of this shitty idea. Apple even said it themselves - "These efforts will evolve and expand over time.".
Is there a special order form if I need to purchase a non-bugged iPad for a classified government setting or very pissed-off enterprise customer? If not, our default recommendation is going to be Microsoft Surface and we will totally deprecate usage of Apple hardware over the course of the next 18-24 months. This is setting a completely unacceptable precedent, and most of our customers I have spoken with today also agree.
I will be pushing for our current & future customers to use alternative device vendors as part of our product stack. We have developed a cross platform implementation of our iOS application recently, and this is a great opportunity to start putting it to use.
I don't know if Apple is paying attention, but there are enterprise customers out there paying them $300/yr for the permission to use their presumably-secure devices for purposes of running custom LOB applications. Our organization and product are part of the reason you have financial institutions making bulk purchases of iPads and other Apple accessories.
If Apple makes it impossible for us to provide assurances to our customers that no data is leaving the devices (aside from agreed-upon application protocols), then we have a serious problem. I am not putting myself in a position where I push a customer to purchase 1000+ iPads for their business if I will then have to answer to their auditors 6 months later on when sensitive customer documents hashes or whatever other horrible things start getting sent to the mothership as part of v2.0 of this shitty idea. Apple even said it themselves - "These efforts will evolve and expand over time.".
Is there a special order form if I need to purchase a non-bugged iPad for a classified government setting or very pissed-off enterprise customer? If not, our default recommendation is going to be Microsoft Surface and we will totally deprecate usage of Apple hardware over the course of the next 18-24 months. This is setting a completely unacceptable precedent, and most of our customers I have spoken with today also agree.