iPhones, 'droids go to WAR: US soldiers invade TOP-SECRET cloud Spooks and soldiers will get iPhones and Android kit after the top brass promised to open up its top-secret communication networks to handsets beyond BlackBerrys. A new US Department of Defense implementation plan - which covers the Army, Navy, Air Force, CIA and tech research group DARPA - will allow employees of all levels …
I strongly suspect that the US move is not about "latest shiny" or indeed any of the flannel they had to say on the subject. More that !=RIM is Canadian whereas Apple and certain other manufacturers are US companies.
Historically they've always been happier to hose their own industries with cash than buy stuff in. In fact, when forced to go elsewhere for kit in the past they've usually licensed it for domestic production rather than just buying the finished product.
Edit: Then again, when it comes to Apple, given the cyber scare stories you have to wonder at the wisdom of giving their military closed kit assembled in China. If I were the PLA, I'd be having a few quiet words[1] with the lads at Foxconn about now.
[1] The sort of quiet words you listen to very carefully and then follow to the letter.
If the US military is smart enough, only the public-facing aspects of "secure iPads" would come from their plants. Secure elements are much more likely to come from American firms after they've been carefully vetted.
The move sounds more like a trend toward more diversity in the event Blackberry has trouble continuing operations in the medium term. In military terms, your basic contingency plan.
"In fact, when forced to go elsewhere for kit in the past they've usually licensed it for domestic production rather than just buying the finished product."
That's true in general. That's why Turkey, for example, makes its own F-16 fighters under license. They are made by TUSAS Aerospace Industries (TAI) at Akinci (formerly Mürted).
.... easily create foreign wars and alien engagements to exercise enemies in their own self destruction and intellectual property depletion, with an expert understanding and remote application of this priceless gem of an invincible invisible campaign strategy and AIMethodology ........ "To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." … Sun Tzu, The Art of War
To chase phantoms and ghosts has primitives occupied in that which they know nothing of, to the advantage of those who know just enough about them, to keep them satisfied and uninterested in their real leaderships?
And it is extremely naive to imagine that things have not fundamentally changed and to think that there are not any brand spanking new and virtually invincible forces, stealthily at their work for a clear and transparent lead in an irregular and unconventional intellectual property space place.?!
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