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by andyjohnson0 4938 days ago
This is going to be incredibly useful for me.

I'm not familiar with the Apple or Windows Phone platforms. Do they have anything similar?
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luke_s 4938 days ago
Apple has a B2B program where you can make an app available only to phones registered to a particular organisation. It has not been rolled out worldwide, like the google program appears to be: http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/

On the downside of googles program, it appears to rely on a company using google apps (basically the corporate version of Gmail, which runs under your own domain). I understand not many companies use this - its definitely not as popular as say - exchange.

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FigBug 4938 days ago
Slight correction: The enterprise developer program is for distributing apps within an organization: https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/

The B2B program is more for bulk purchase of custom apps.

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yRetsyM 4938 days ago
It seems that google is slowly migrating google apps platform to not just being reliant on using all googles apps/services. IE: Postini users will be migrated next year to Google Apps (but not require to be using gmail).
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ceph_ 4938 days ago
Gmail is much more popular than exchange. The types of businesses who are chained to exchange are not the type to be deploying custom android apps in house.
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