iPhone 5, BYOD and Enterprise Mobile Strategies

My wife and I are going to do something we have never done before. We are going to get up early on Friday morning and drive to our local (everything is local in Boise) Apple store so we can report on the silly crowds standing in line to get the new iPhone 5. If by chance we happen to end up in the store and our iPhones get upgraded C'est la vie. The things we do for our readers... Ever since Apple announced the new iPhone 5, each time I open my iPhone there are apps that need updated. This reminded me of the impact hardware and operating system updates have on enterprises. In the old days (four years ago), Microsoft would rarely update their mobile OS, and when they did you would have many months of advanced notice. Today, all you have are rumors up to the very day of the announcement. This can cause problems for custom built native applications in the enterprise.

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