Umm and what magical OS do iPads and Mac's remote into .. a Citrix / VDI sessions running Windows OS! Love the irony. Your shiny toy is a dumb terminal. All native goodness isolated and unusable.
Your vision will only happen if / when companies sunset legacy Windows programs used to do business functions. Some of these are being converted to web based system but that takes time and budget, which is razor thin the past few years.
So you say source it, you only have so much bandwidth. You ever see the bills for a OC3 to India with sufficient capacity? Not to mention the quality of work being done.
I love the whole concept of enabling employees but enabling them and them actually being productive are two different things and no one has brought any research that BYOD improves productivity. BYOD is for those with the funds to show off their toys to those that do not. While your C level executive can afford a iPad, MacBook Air, iPhone. You have workers barely getting by check to check in the current economy and having the latest "gadget" is not even on their radar. They just want to do their job.
So your saying every conference where freebies are handed out is how the new IT model should be in how technology is adopted and deployed in the enterprise? To hell with testing, validation etc? I'm sorry to tell you but entitlement is alive and well in corporate america and while these executives get some new toys to play with, they are not about to provide IT the budget or staff to deploy in mass these technologies. Oh but you say BYOD is all about sell support, you don't need more staff. BS. For every tech saavy user you have 50 who can't remember a password.
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