There is no certainty that Android will start taking share from IPhone, it hasn't happened yet, I don't see it happening in 2012. the difference between Apple and Google is that Apple is number two in marketshare but number one in revenue. Google needs to find a way to make android more profitable, winning marketshare certainly hasn't helped.

They are so far behind in marketshare they need to do more than create a competing phone, they need to create a better phone. It's hard to see how they can claim much marketshare quickly. the churn rate on iPhone is quite low and people who have those phones generally purchase apps they may be be hesitant to abandon for the MS phone which has a fraction of the apps that iOS has available. On the Android front there are way more models than wp models which creates great pricing deals on the 6 month old models. No I ink MS is like the Tandy of mobile phones.

The problem could just be a lack of capacity planning. When management says we are going to add $1 million worth of iPads on to our mail system plus let users use iPhones and droids the mail admins should be evaluating their infrastructure.

Use it to buy iPads after everyone complains they bought junk nobody uses.

Locking in cheap prices is not anti-trust, they have economies of scale because they can produce a lot of a product on initial order because they know it will sell.

I think Macs are priced too high, but to the average consumer their normal choices are Mac which is over priced but comes with a high quality parts and good support or buy Acer, HP, or Dell which will be cheap but probably won't have as long of life span and has questionable support. I'll tell you one thing my wife has a apple laptop and it's battery performance exceeds any Windows laptop I've had for personal or work use. Not just in how long a charge lasts when she first got it but also in the lifespan of the battery. I can remember one laptop where the battery would only hold a twenty minute charge after 6 months, replaced the battery and less than a year later the same thing happened again.

It would be hard to creat an anti-trust case when there are many other large companies bringing similar products to the table that consumers could buy.

How did you come to this conclusion? I can can goto Starbucks, restaurants, supermarkets, and youth sporting events and very commonly see a tablet somewhere. Generally it is the iPad rarely it is something else, if you want you could say tablets aren't useful, just iPads but that isn't true. You have your head in the sand, tablets are here until somebody thinks of something's better and it isn't a laptop.

Here is a prediction by summer of 2012 if iPad 3 is out the total of all iPads plus kindle Fire will surpass 100 million units sold. Just because , HP, and HTC have been failing to sell tablets does not mean that tablets are failing. There are plenty of computers that failed when they first started moving away from Mainframes as the only computing model. Comodore had several failed models, the Tandy was only mildly successful, Atari made a computer that failed, and other companies at the time made plenty of failure as well. I was only a kid at the time so I can't remember them all and I'm too lazy to research it.

there is a middle ground. You can have separate networks, one that only allows Internet and corporate mail access and another that allows server access. you could support email access on any device that supports active sync, a help desk that can't connect an iPad, droid, or iPhone to a mail server is not help desk. You could limit your support to that, want to access an intranet application require a corporate desktop or server. VPN only for corporate laptops and so forth.

the big problem is corporate purchasing. It is hard for A company to buy an iPad for a few users, especially since they are u sure how productive they will be. but it is very easy for a motivated employees to buy an iPad and possibly see so ething they could do at work.

This is completely stupid. If you run exchange why pay for corporate Blackberry's and servers? Half the population now has smart phones why not let them use their own phones rather than purchases equipment? do you thi k it makes good business sense to buy your users additional devices to do something they can do at no cost to you? does your company have webmail or VPN access.

Perhaps your office supply people don't think people should be allowed to bring their own pens either.

I might be wrong but I don't think they bought Siri on a per device license. as far as the ipad2 it's not that surprising, the iPhone 4 has a more limited voice control that does not exist on either iPad model.

The problem with most plans is they are purely defensive in nature. My plan resolve around repulsing the first attack then conterattacking with a rapid mobile assault force. Remember zombies hate to be flanked.

freezing a drive won't nessarly destroy the platter. You can sometimes recover data from a head crash by freezing the drive and then spinning it up because the head arm has shrunk from the cold pulling the head off the drive. also a data recovery company could recover a from just the platter even if the electronics in the drive are broken.

Put the drives in a big pile with burnable trash and lighter fluid and let them burn at a high temperature. Only the very rich would be able to get data off them once the platters melt and since your cheap I doubt you have information worth the very expensive effort to recover.