CEO of Blackberry Has Choice Words for Samsung and Apple
Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins criticises Samsung security and Apple's lack of innovation.
Thorsten Heins, CEO of Blackberry, has recently been taking swings at Apple and Samsung after the launch of the new Z10 and the Blackberry 10 platform. Whether this outspokenness will hurt or help Blackberry in the long run remains to be seen, but the impacts can already be felt as tension grows between the companies.
Heins stated that Samsung will always fall short of offering "top-notch platinum" security due to the nature of Google's Android operating system. His remarks concerning Android are "you don’t know how many keys you’ve given to the main door of your house because it’s open software…So what are you trying to do? You’re locking the windows" in reference to the fact that the Android platform is developed as open source, meaning many people can work together to improve it. He consequently states that Blackberry has none of these flaws, as it has been designed with security in mind from the ground up.
Samsung had naturally responded to these claims when their VP of Enterprise Sales, Tim Wagner, said, "We are committed, and investing significantly, to ensure our devices can be used securely for both work and play.” Their new solution called SAFE (Samsung Approved for Enterprise) has, however, gotten recognition from Heins for its potential to provide security to businesses that have a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy in place.
Heins also quipped that "Apple's iPhone is outdated," in the way that lack of innovation at Apple has led to their user interface only allowing one app to be open at a time. Unlike the development in multitasking on the Blackberry Z10, he says that Apple's iOS “[is] still the same. It’s a sequential way to work and that’s not what people want today anymore. They want multitasking.”
Despite the sequential system, Heins has also complimented Apple on their product's design and its significant impact on the smart phone industry, saying: “…They did a fantastic job with the user interface, they are a design icon. There is a reason why they were so successful, and we actually have to admit this and respect that.”
Do you think these comments seem to contradict themselves, or is the CEO of Blackberry finally saying what everyone else doesn't want to?
Blackberry had it's place in enterprise. It probably won't get it back. But we'll see. Samsungs concept of running your phone instance of Android, that is yours, and an entirely separate sandboxed version of Android that the company has total control of and can wipe, without affecting your phone... Sounds pretty nice. Nice enough I'd like to know more since they already supported encryption and Cisco VPN...
"Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins criticises Apple's security and lack of innovation"
You can still break through iOS 6.1.3 passwords and into someone's contacts list and infomation.
You also can just have one phone for installing whatever you want and another phone for pure business use which is much more secure anyways.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Blackberry-10-Security-Business-Government,21601.html
Blackberry had it's place in enterprise. It probably won't get it back. But we'll see. Samsungs concept of running your phone instance of Android, that is yours, and an entirely separate sandboxed version of Android that the company has total control of and can wipe, without affecting your phone... Sounds pretty nice. Nice enough I'd like to know more since they already supported encryption and Cisco VPN...
Blackberry had it's place in enterprise. It probably won't get it back. But we'll see. Samsungs concept of running your phone instance of Android, that is yours, and an entirely separate sandboxed version of Android that the company has total control of and can wipe, without affecting your phone... Sounds pretty nice. Nice enough I'd like to know more since they already supported encryption and Cisco VPN...
It won't do either. All he did was open his mouth, not bring new products to market. BB10 will determine BB's future, not a CEO's quips.
That's the theory. In reality you don't have hundreds of people reviewing the same code all day. If you aren't interested in it you won't look at it. Of course it's not necessarily better in a closed-source environment either. Code reviews are increasingly skipped as deadlines approach (and some places don't really do them at all).
To randomizer, he did bring new products to market, and more on the way as the year progress'.
I agree that he's right on both accounts, but we forget the one company in the market that he didn't mention, Microsoft. while both M$ and BB are aiming to eat into android and apple market share, both of them are deeply rooted in enterprise and there will be fierce competition between the two systems. with bulk orders on the surface pro for enterprise now all set up, you have to ask yourself "if the company buys Surface Pros as a standard tablet for everyone, why wouldn't people just get WP8 to go with it?"
Yes, I know I know there's lot of issues with WP8 as well, but until RIM gets over the WP8 hurtle, it has a lot of issues it needs to sort out. I'm not against a comeback for BB, hell the more competition the better.
Yeah, more competition! While it seems unlikely, I hope both WP and BB will rise in marketshare to compete with Android && iOS.
translation "they want half-as-ing"
seriously though multitasking is NOT good , if you are multi tasking at work you do half as good on each work job , if you're multitaskign in public well that jsut not very safe. that aside don't get me wrong not adcovating apple , jsut tired of this whole multitasking is better crap because its really not.
P.S. apple blows chunks and steve jobs was a rip off artist
Sure what Android lacks is the managing functionalities of Blackberry coupled with BB server, but third party software can fix that.
Open Source === Less secure
Hopefully even non-techies only need to look at Windows VS (*)nix to get that closed source does not equate to security just as open source should not result in lower security.
Him boasting about security though is probably like a red flag to hackors, he just set BB10 up for target practice.
Being able to download something or look up something in the middle of a call or such are definitely aspects of multi-tasking that can be extremely useful.
You say it best, when you say nothing at all