Given a BlackBerry choice, 92% of Clorox employees picked iPhone
According to a report by Compuerworld, the company stopped issuing BlackBerry phones and gave employees a choice between Apple's iPhone, Android models, or Windows Phone 7 smartphones.
Of the 2,000 smartphones the company has issued under the new plan, 92 percent are iPhones, while 6 percent picked Android and 2 percent chose a WP7 model.
RIM's BlackBerry has long been the corporate choice of IT managers, ostensibly because of its centralized management and security credentials. However, messaging had largely become a cloud service, making the device itself less important.
"We live in public cloud for mail and messaging," explained Clorox' chief information officer Ralph Loura. "I don't have to worry about security because I don't sync data to the iPhones. It remains in the cloud.
"My job is about how to be the chief risk officer, yet provide choice and flexibility. It's about putting apps and logistics in the cloud and pushing the user interface to the edge," he said.
Loura is also beginning an iPad pilot program, and notes that while nobody volunteers "take my laptop and replace with iPad," he does think it can be used to run cloud-based business apps.
"What I want [to do is] figure out how to take that business intelligence app or workflow app and figure out way to have it be accessed in an intuitive way from the iPad," he stated in the report.
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92% sounds about right.
If I were Clorox's employee, I'd be extremely happy to get an iPhone instead of a Blackberry, but if I were Clorox's management, I'd definitely ask my tech team to block every non-business related app from the employee's iPhones. Otherwise prepare to hire more people because efficiency is going to drop very quickly in the near future.
All Clorox employees are just delusional fanboys.
"Given a BlackBerry choice, 92% of Clorox employees picked iPhone"
If anyone were to read the title only they would think the employees chose between iPhones and Blackberry's and 92% chose iPhones.
Wow. I guess it pays to actually read the article.
I assume most wanted white ones.