“Lost amid all the consumer-focused frenzy of last week’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) is an intriguing set of new enterprise features that Apple will add to its mobile OS in iOS 8,” Paul Thurrott writes for WindowsITPro. “Due later this year — and no doubt accompanied by a new set of devices — iOS 8 will be made available for free to users of reasonably current iPhones, iPod touches and iPads. And while it may look at lot like the current reason [sic version], there are a lot of interesting features for businesses.”
“The popularity of the iPhone in particular is, I think, almost solely responsible for the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend that is currently revolutionizing the way we think about mobile devices in the workplace. So it is perhaps not surprising that Apple —a company that has traditionally been far more comfortable dealing with consumers — is trying to step up its efforts in this area. And succeeding,” Thurrott writes. “With iOS 8, Apple is taking its enterprise functionality to the next level. From a security standpoint, iOS 8 expands data protection to more apps, with passcode protection on apps like Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, Notes, Reminders and compatible third party apps, helping to keep your corporate data safe. It includes per-message S/MIME protection for email messages. ”
“Apple iOS 8 is currently in beta, and the early first release I’ve installed on my iPhone 5S is a bit buggy to recommend, though the firm has a history of quickly fixing problems in the build-up to the final release,” Thurrott writes. “And while Apple didn’t discuss this at WWDC, the firm is also expected to deliver at least one larger-screen iPhone this fall as well, possibly concurrently with iOS 8… Such a device running iOS 8 could provide serious competition for Android and Windows Phone, and not just in the enterprise. I’m very curious to see what they come up with.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: A remarkably sane article except for that bit at the end. Really, how “serious” does anybody have to be to compete with Microsoft’s moribund Windows Phone?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Henri K” for the heads up.]
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