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Title: Get to know iOS 8: Why business users (and IT departments) will be happy
Post by: HCK on September 19, 2014, 09:00:21 am
Get to know iOS 8: Why business users (and IT departments) will be happy

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<p dir="ltr">It’s an old story now, but still worth remembering: When the iPhone debuted way back in 2007, it wasn’t much thought of as a device for business users. It had email, yes, but not many of the security features favored by IT departments—and besides, the BlackBerry dominated the business market anyway.</p><p>
These days, there’s an iPhone and an iPad in nearly every boardroom. Why? Because the bosses liked them and brought them to work despite the complaints from those IT departments.</p><p>
But Apple was not blind to the BYOD (http://www.citeworld.com/tag/byod/). Every new update to iOS brings a host of new features designed to mollify the folks down in IT. The release of iOS 8 is no different. (http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/enterprise/) It has a host of new features aimed at making iOS devices more secure, more manageable, and more productive.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2683976/get-to-know-ios-8-why-business-users-and-it-departments-will-be-happy.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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