On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:49:45 +0300 Daniel Kalchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 04.06.12 18:04, xenophon\+freebsd wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Kalchev > >> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 12:42 AM > >> > >> I really see no reason why your 'mail or calendaring server' > >> should be able to wipe your devices.. This is the sort of bloat > >> that keeps me away. From Microsoft products. > > I don't think that's fair to say. Email/calendaring seems to be > > the only connection point between a smartphone and an > > organization for at least the current crop of devices (although > > I'm sure that at some point soon, you'll be able to include > > organizational file servers as well). > > Again, what does your e-mail or calendaring service have to do with > wiping your device clean?? Wiping the device is task for your > device management platform, which does not belong to the e-mail or > calendaring platform. If you connect your desktop to Exchange, is > it supposed to be wiped too? What if the Exchange account is just > one of the many e-mail accounts you use, as typically is the case? It is part of the protocol, Exchanged ActiveSync, used by Exchange based mobile devices. > >> In this regard I rather prefer the way Apple handles things. > >> Shiny wrapper interface to pretty much generic technology. No > >> reinvention of the wheel and experiments to see if it can be made > >> square. > > You can't damn Microsoft for being too proprietary in one > > paragraph and then praise Apple for its openness in the next. > > Does not compute. > > I don't care how proprietary an proprietary thing is. If it is > correctly implemented, it is ok, if it is not correctly > implemented, it is not ok. Microsoft's "wipe trough Exchange" is > weird, to put it mildly. Apple too had a track record of doing many > proprietary things, but in recent years their offerings are, as I > mentioned earlier, pretty much generic standard and widespread > protocols with a lot of sugar coating. From a enterprise perspective, it makes sense. Lets say a device goes missing, it allows one to wipe it the next time it calls home. The usefulness of such a feature is better disconnected from the debate of proprietary v. non-proprietary though, given the different nature of both issues. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
