Why mobile phones are not managed like PC's?

The emergence of the iPhone in 2007 radically changed the concept of mobile phone and turned it into a tiny PC that, as Apple says, also serves to make a phone call. A few years later, with the democratization of smartphones, we all carry one or even two in our pocket.

Interestingly, these tiny PCs that are part of our work tools do not follow the same standards as their older brothers. Let's play to find the seven differences:

1. All PCs are inventoried and an agent monitors what the computer does and what things it has installed.
2. A corporate PC has an image that approves the system departments. In general, all the company's PCs are the same.
3. The user is not an administrator of your PC
4. The applications that run on this platform are also homologated and its correct operation is certified both on the platform and in coexistence with other applications. Generally, the user does not install the applications but is done remotely. In a corporate PC, there are usually no personal applications of the user, nor games.
5. Security policies are imposed: Passwords, downtime to block the computer, antivirus, USB port blocking, encryption, Internet output settings, etc.
6. The security departments control what goes in and out of PCs, to avoid losses and leaks that could lead to very negative consequences for the company.
7. The information backup policy ensures that the data resident on the PC is not lost.

The mobile devices, however, generally operate differently:

1. Inventory: This device is registered when delivered to the user, and then nothing else is known about it. If you store it in a drawer and use your personal iPhone, nobody notices.
2. The device brings the manufacturer's operating system. Few companies ask for customization on the platform or display a different image.
3. The user is the administrator of the mobile device.
4. The applications are generally those installed by the user, especially the personal ones.
5. There are no security policies or, if any, the user defines them.
6. Information entering or leaving the device is not controlled. The applications we use to share information with our family and friends (Dropbox, Whatsapp, Evernote, etc.) are also used to do so in our work environment, which is beyond the control of the company.
7. There is no backup policy.

In the financial sector, it has been Blackberry who traditionally solved these problems, although we have always lived with the iPhones and iPads. Now that many entities are leaving Blackberry and the problem is becoming widespread, the situation begins to change, and companies begin to see the mobile device as an extension of the traditional job.

However, we find that suddenly we must use two tools to manage both worlds because there is currently no tool in the market that manages both. The leaders in PC management (CA, Microsoft, etc.) are not the leaders in mobile device management (Airwatch, Mobile Iron, Citrix, Blackberry, etc.), although they have a more or less integrated solution with their PC management tool. 

The least practical gesture navigation in history: move the mobile to control the interface

Palm, the brand that once belonged to HP, was one of the first to implement gestural navigation on their mobile phones , which allowed users to control the system interface in a more intuitive way than using only buttons. Almost 10 years later, gesture navigation has become practically a standard within the current telephone industry, being used by brands such as Apple, Google, OnePlus or Motorola, among many others. Each of them, yes, with its MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) implementation.

Today, when Android 9.0 Pie has been among us for a few weeks now and has the objective of standardizing gesture navigation on the most widespread mobile platform on the planet, a Chinese brand arrives for many unknown, to reinvent gestural controls on smartphone.