iOS Devices Approved for Use on US Military Networks
Spotted earlier by 9to5 who has been following reports all month on the Department of Defense and the process of approving iOS 6 for “non-classified communications and widespread use by government agencies,”.
Today Apple has been officially granted approval. One thing that can’t help but cross my mind is:
“Isn’t iOS 7 just around the corner? I mean, if it took them this long to get it approved and now it’s already out dated..”
While both Samsung and Blackberry have been approved for some time it was in February that the US Defense Department confirmed its plans to open up their network to 100,000 new devices from both Apple and Google. At the the time, the Pentagon’s network consisted of about: 470K Blackberrys, 41K Apple products, and 8.7K Android devices.
There was however a large shift from Blackberry to iPhones over just this last year, and surely many more to come as of this announcement.
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