Apple and the US General Services Administration
February 16, 2012
Short honk: I read “RIM’s BlackBerry loses General Services Administration business to iPhone.” I am assuming that the information in the write up is reasonably accurate. The point of the news story was to tell me that Research in Motion now has to deal with Apple iPhones and iPads in the juicy US government market. One of the more interesting statements in the story was:
The GSA also plans to allow federal purchases of Android devices, although the enterprise in general has avoided enthusiastic adoption of devices running Google’s platform due to a lack of robust support for a variety of features that are important to corporate users, including IPSec VPNs, Microsoft’s Exchange Server and device administration tools to monitor, manage and police the enforcement of desired policies.
Why this paragraph? Easy. Google which has long coveted the US government as a customer now finds that Apple is pushing its cute little nose into the big spending, mostly confused government procurement process. Forget Research in Motion. This news story indicates that Apple can make life tough for Google in more than online music and mobile devices in the consumer market.
How will Google respond? No clue, probably in a Googley way.
Stephen E Arnold, February 16, 2012
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