Posters are cropping all over Facebook
HQ, imploring the employees to switch from iPhones to Android based
phones. The social media company doesn’t share a particular bias for the
green droid, but feels that the only way to speed up the development
process for a bug-free Android app would be if the employees switch to
Android.
However, this isn’t the first time we’ve
seen companies make a switch with respect to their mobile platform.
Recently, The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has cemented its resolve to replace
RIM's BlackBerry devices in favour of the iPhone. RIM’s services failed
twice over the year, causing the services of the NTSB to get severely
impacted during crisis situations. This sort of an outage could be
catastrophic, given how the NTSB looks after the investigations for
aviation and other transport based accidents. So with BB services going
out, the coordination of the investigation could get affected, which led
to the NTSB switching to the iPhone.
This is sad news given that BlackBerry had just launched BlackBerry Mobile Fusion,
a multi-platform device management suite. Through Fusion, BB had hoped
to at least consolidate its enterprise business, allowing the people to
use just a single tool to manage iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices all
in one go.
BlackBerry is the leading example of
changing times, of how even big names can lose out to competition. While
Facebook’s push for Android adoption may seem like the company’s trying
to promote the OS, but the reality remains that its only trying to push
its developers to get used to an OS for which they are having a hard
time developing a well fleshed out app.
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