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Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare
snydeq writes "Advice Line's Bob Lewis discusses the difficulties IT faces in embracing the kinds of consumer technologies business users are demanding they support. 'Let's assume the consumerization of IT is the big trend many think it is. But using consumer tech in a business environment is a very different matter from being satisfied with consumer tech in a business environment. One of IT's legitimate gripes is that we're often asked to turn consumer-grade technology into business-grade technology with a wave of our magic wands. On top of the intrinsic technical challenges, there's this: IT doesn't have anything that even resembles a methodology for performing the business analysis we need to figure out what it means to put consumer tech to productive day-to-day use.'"
They jumped it some time ago. Itunes making you have to go through Apple to do *anything* is not just a walled garden
Silly Apple Hater, so unwilling to comprehend what is actually happening in the world!
As it turns out, you need iTunes for exactly nothing with iOS5 onward. You can activate a device without iTunes, use iCloud without iTunes, device updates happen OTA as do backups to iCloud, etc.
Poor Apple Hater! Whatever will you find to carp on now!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yeah. What's needed is for hobbyists to work for free to develop free solutions so that these poor enterprises don't have to pay for their IT needs.