The incomplete story of knox Knox did not really take off to become a significant enterprise mobile security solution. Read more!
Knox has been around for quite a while which is one of the prominent mobile security solution based on android. Recently Apple has added a number of enterprise features that are brilliantly done and looks promising for the future. But on the other end Knox was out before Apple published their enterprise features with iOS7. Knox has been able to generate a lot of attention for android app developers and the enterprise market. However, till date the knox ecosystem has not really expanded on a considerable scale. There are various reasons for it. One of the most important factor that lead to a limited distribution of Knox is the direct control of carriers to enable the service or not. This creates a significant threshold for both enterprise and users to have the service at their convenience. On to is the carriers would also determine the devices that would be allowed to run Knox. Till date only a handful of samsung devices have been added into the list and samsung is not the only android smartphone seller in the market. There are other seller in the market too and this creates an asymmetry and unwillingness for corporations and service providers. In addition to this one cannot simply employ the EAS protocol to run the show here. Knox requires its own mobile server and that does not come for free. One has to pay for every 1
device connected to the system. Moreover most of the MDMs have not really teamed up with samsung which indicates a serious activity in this direction. The problem increased since last fiscal as samsung did not register an enthusiastic growth. While in the US it lost the race to apple this year, in countries like india, local brands along with Sony and HTC have taken a considerable part of the market. In such a scenario, knox cannot fill up samsung’s pocket alone. But on the other hand google can surely think of coming up with something that takes into account a large number of android devices.
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