Australia’s Treasury Department Will Trade RIM For iOS
Peter Alexander, Australia’s chief from information office sustains that it’s too late now for RIM. Apparently they only thing they have now is a name and a system to operate and some devices that are to come but this is not enough. There’s been recently announced that the country’s Treasury Department would commerce in their Blackberry devices for iPhones. It seems that is a popular activity lately.
ZDNet Australia reported via AppleInsider the following:
“Peter Alexander, the chief information officer, announced that in one month and a half, Blackberry mobile phones will be preferred in favor of iPhone 5s in conformity with the Australian Department of Treasury.
There were officially provided Blackberry devices for the staff in the different departments, to four ministers offices and for some agencies under Treasury. However it was switched over by the department conforming to Peter Alexander after Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) certified iOS for the government use.
“Our plan is to make Apple devices as a part of our corporate platform. For now we only look at iPhones and iPads” declared Alexander on ZDNet”
You are also wondering why they switched to iPhones ? Alexander says that nothing stands above capabilities, and that Blackberry devices are more limited in their possibilities of function ability compared to iPhone. There is also been said that the Department also thought about Android phones as a replacement, but it had been finally decided for the security that devices from Android haven’t yet been clarified by Australia’s Defense Signals Directorate.
An emigration series has somehow been taking place over the last years in government agencies from Blackberry to iPhone. Last autumn there have been lots of decisions in Stateside departments saying that they would be switching Blackberry to iPhone. This included the U.S. Immigration Customer Enforcement Agency and The National Transportation Safety Board.
The announcement made today came just one week after the big event of Blackberry’s BB10 took place in New York City. There it had been unveiled the two new handsets, the Z10 and the Q10. They are both running the company’s new BB10 software and they will be both made available in the UK in one of the days next month. The feedback for the devices itself seems to be positive but that doesn’t changes the fact that it might be too little and too late.
