New Zealand Frontline Police Get Apple Devices in Efficiency Measure

mask.of.sanity writes "Thousands of New Zealand frontline police will be armed with smartphones and tablets from this year in an efficiency initiative that the force hopes will save millions of dollars. NZ Police say the devices are Apple iPhones and iPads. These will be password protected and can be wiped remotely if lost. Police declined to say if the devices and their communications will be encrypted."

Comments

Re:Setting up for iFailure

[david.emery]

And how is this different from the zillions of successful hacks against the dominant Windows world for laptops, or Android world for smartphones? Both of those platforms, widely used, have been successfully hacked.

Seems to me the absence of successful hacks against iOS (given the millions of iPhones/iPads out there) is in many respects prima-facie evidence that it's actualy a hard (harder) platform to hack. The same argument, but with lesser market share, can be made for Mac OS X products.

dave

Re:Save millions...

[david.emery]

It's all about the software, including iOS security (see my previous post on this thread.) And the Apple hardware isn't that much more expensive -for similar devices-.

hrmmm..

[LodCrappo]

So they will "save millions of dollars" by spending how much exactly? I'm sure it adds up if you use the new math.

Re:Setting up for iFailure

[NatasRevol]

So let us know when all the Android devices being sold in China running gingerbread can be updated.
Or any trusted source in China to install from.

And please point out one malware virus on iOS.