I’ve taken so much time lately playing with BlackBerry 10, Fusion/BES10 and all the other features recently release by RIM/BlackBerry.  I have to admit that it is a bit disheartening, and I will attempt to explain why.  RIM is coming into this market, the MDM space, like it doesn’t exist.  I’ve used fusion for about 5 months now.  Literally, there are no new innovating features in it at all.  They have just hijacked the features from Exchange and put them in pretty much the same format as BAS.
Blackberry 10 handhelds are feature rich, but they are coming off as a gimmick.  For example, they claim to have launched with 70,000 applications, which is a very impressive list.  However, most, if not 90% of the applications that are launched with, are Android applications that are just ported.  They are Android applications

Also, there have been scattered reports this morning ( I will not totally blame BlackBerry for this yet, but if it is true, it is very sad.) that they (BlackBerry CEO) is lying about the devices selling out.  This seems like more of the same lately.

BlackBerry 10 launched with two devices, the z10 and the q10.  They q10 is the keyboard qwerty device, the z10 is the touch screen device.  They both looked very impressive, if the device came out two years ago. However, now they look like regular players, with nothing special about them.

I really wish RIM would make it so you can tell the difference between doing something with the API’s and the BAS console. Even if it was some log file entry somewhere. It is a pain in the ass looking back trying to figure out which one did something. This feature would be so easy to implement.

It looks like RIM is putting more and more information everyday about BlackBerry 10/Playbook 2.1 etc: They even launched a new website BlackBerry 10 It looks like BES 10 is going to be in two forms, one is going to be on premises, the other is going to be in a hosted model, similar to how Microsoft handles Office 365.

I am curious to see how they are going to integrate with Office365. So far it seems that MS has been less then willing to work with MDM players. Here is the policy guide/admin guide from RIM Admin Guide

Been working pretty heavily on APNS lately.

Learned some pretty interesting things about APNS

The flow of remote-notification data is one-way. The provider composes a notification package that includes the device token for a client application and the payload. The provider sends the notification to APNs which in turn pushes the notification to the device.

When it authenticates itself to APNs, a provider furnishes the service with its topic, which identifies the application for which it’s providing data. The topic is currently the bundle identifier of the target application on an iOS device.

Apple Documentation.

Really good diagram.

So lately I’ve heard a lot of talk about BES 10.  I did some research, and it looks like BES 10 is just mobile fusion with BES 5.4 built into it.  They are going to rename mobile fusion to BES10 to remove the confusion.  So in the future it is going to look something like this.

So lately I’ve heard a lot of talk about BES 10. I did some research, and it looks like BES 10 is just mobile fusion with BES 5.4 built into it. They are going to rename mobile fusion to BES10 to remove the confusion. So in the future it is going to look something like this.

Well recently I’ve been playing with Airwatch, and I have to admit, I am very impressed with the product.  It is incredibly easy to set up and the support team over there really has their act together.  More to follow..

So I’ve decided to start a place where we all can learn about Mobile Device Management together.