As a person working in IT Security, this kind of thing is an absolute nightmare for companies attempting to implement or stay true to any kind of security procedure / protocol. The fact of the matter is these things will not replace desktops, because if they did it would give everyone in the company (or at least the important people) to walk out of the doors with whatever vital data they decided to work on that day, with the possibilty of that device never making it back into work for whatever reason (robbery, fire, alien death ray). The immediate cost savings over a laptop / desktop (if in fact there is one) does not begin to warrant the move to these 'handtops' when the extreme risk that is to be incurred is taken into account.
Johnny boy states that "Only the customer can define open" but then proceeds, to define it, not to mention plug Sun's products. This seems contraditory
I whole heartedly agree. Cell phones have become so ridiculously engrained in modern day society, it is a wonder the people before us, who built the cell phone companies were able to get along without them. a cell phone is (or at least should be) a phone, all the rest is waste of time and money. Not to sound regressive, but everything has it's function.
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As a person working in IT Security, this kind of thing is an absolute nightmare for companies attempting to implement or stay true to any kind of security procedure / protocol. The fact of the matter is these things will not replace desktops, because if they did it would give everyone in the company (or at least the important people) to walk out of the doors with whatever vital data they decided to work on that day, with the possibilty of that device never making it back into work for whatever reason (robbery, fire, alien death ray). The immediate cost savings over a laptop / desktop (if in fact there is one) does not begin to warrant the move to these 'handtops' when the extreme risk that is to be incurred is taken into account.
to say, but I'm too lazy to type it. Where's that pill when you need it.
Johnny boy states that "Only the customer can define open" but then proceeds, to define it, not to mention plug Sun's products. This seems contraditory
I whole heartedly agree. Cell phones have become so ridiculously engrained in modern day society, it is a wonder the people before us, who built the cell phone companies were able to get along without them. a cell phone is (or at least should be) a phone, all the rest is waste of time and money. Not to sound regressive, but everything has it's function.