The problem is not with Dropbox per se, but with the how easy it is to use being in such stark contrast to most Enterprise apps which are generally awful.

However, services like Skydrive Pro (SharePoint 2013) and Google Drive with the G-Apps context offer very similar functionality, it’s just a case of how quickly organisations can get suitable environments set up.

Presumably there will be an apps lockdown but the fact is that if you’re using your smartphone to its fullest capability, then you’re already creating massive security risks.

For example, if one employee installs dropbox on it and then detaches anything sensitive into that box, even from emails read on their home computers, then there’s a potential security problem. Similarly, if the phone owners are able to connect to public wi-fi, then all someone has to do is set up an appropriately named wi-fi network and wait for victims to come along.

You might want to look into the fact this was actually a Cisco softphone deployment not Lync. Cisco’s CUCiLync plugin was used which is not recommended by Microsoft and removes native softphone functionality from Lync. You make mention of it in your earlier article loosely with a comment about Cisco. The real headline should read “CBA drops Cisco softphone for smartphone”. The problem with using plugins like Cisco’s is that Lync does get the blame because that’s what a user sees on their desktop. Its much easier to just blanket blame Lync than to look at what’s really happening under the covers and to be frank most users don’t really care. Its just Lync fault. Its unfortunate because in this case Microsoft is being given a black eye for something that Cisco should be called out for.

I used 3 generations of iPhones until I switched to a Samsung Windows Phone 7, now upgraded to 7.5.

Part of my profession is to be across all things digital and most things technology. Each time Apple or Google releases a major update to their mobile OS or a major flagship mobile comes out, I use it for a week, sometimes 2 weeks and in many cases sometimes carry two mobiles.

Each time I’ve gone back to an iPhone from my primary Windows Phone my productivity has dropped dramatically. Everything on iOS compared to Windows Phone 7.5 is slower and takes more clicks = less productivity.

I’ve now been on iOS – for the first couple of days on iPhone 4 and now iPhone 5, and the user interface compared to Windows Phone is so jarringly slower it results in me being less productive. And no, it’s not me its the user interface / OS.

How on Earth people come up with statements like Marco Tapia is beyond me especially without any real world, objective foundation or real world experience using the different OS’s / phones. *And no I’m not talking about picking it up in a store for 10 minutes to try it.

In the USA, carriers such as AT&T, magazines and media have conducted many customer satisfaction surveys of the different mobile OS’s, and the Windows Phone 7 OS generally equals and in some cases surpases iOS in front of Android.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402202,00.asp
http://wmpoweruser.com/samsung-focus-beats-att-iphone-in-nearly-every-category-in-pcmag-reader-survey/
Wired Magazine poll – 61% Nokia Lumia, 19% iPhone 5 – http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone5-spec-showdown/

But you wouldn’t hear any of these facts and objective commentary or analysis here in Australia because almost all tech and media commentators are brainwashed or simply lazy. I mean Ben Grubb at Fairfax recently said ‘he doesn’t rate the Windows Phone 8 UI’, not because he actually used it, but based on ‘what he’s read’!!!! Hilarious….

Which is why the majority of my peers and I take little to no notice of Australian consumer tech reviews anymore…..

C!

And what what to the what what about Telstra? You mean on their T-Hub devices? It’s not really comparable.

Also using that same logic, you must really hate telstra doing it then :D

“Commbank’s move to shift away from its smartphone strategy …”

Did you mean shift away from softphone?

Renai, your opinion/analysis sections are interesting, but I can’t help but always think a quick call to the company in question might be able to help you produce some exclusive statements instead of wandering musings? *Is* WP7 a better bet? If so, why did they choose iPhone? etc etc.

+1

“As part of its continued program with mobility, productivity and ‘bring your own device’ capabilities, the Commonwealth Bank has decided to use Apple’s iPhone 4, in addition to its current fleet of Blackberries as the preferred mobile telephony solution at its Commonwealth Bank Place location,” the bank said in a statement this afternoon. “In addition, as a further example the Group’s ongoing program with ‘bring you own device’ capabilities, it will rollout a ‘mymobilesync’ solution as an option for employees who want their secure work email on their own iPhone and iPad device.”

Using Apple mobile devices brings huge productivity increases to most companies. The OS is just superior and flexible. Users love them!.

Hope CBA also has a strategy in place on how to move away from Apple mobile devices once they go out of fashion and something better comes up (as it will) !!!