[driftdiver]

intriguing, all of the global banks I’ve worked with and done security for don’t allow apple products on their networks.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"intriguing, all of the global banks I’ve worked with and done security for don’t allow apple products on their networks."

That's strange. I can name two of very personal acquaintance that do, though I must admit that Windows has a big head start. As the CTO of one very large and well-known bank told me, and this is a direct quote from an email: "Looking forward so I can trade in my blackberry someday…" He was unaware when he wrote that that (today, not "someday") the iPhone can be remotely wiped and was Exchange-compliant with hardware encryption, and he'd bought wholesale the false reports that a late build of Ubuntu could access the data on an iPhone, when actually Ubuntu was seeing just the publicly shared folder, as with any digital camera, and no system or user directories like \usr or \var were exposed. His response: "Thanks, [real name]. Great news."

It's only news to him because he's ill-informed due to abysmal work by the tech media and the frantic fanning of the flames of FUD by folks such as a few on this thread. My impression is that RIM's stranglehold on this market will weaken quickly once actual facts break through the inertia-based shield of high-finance IT. I've already witnessed it in action among that very high-placed early-adopter mentioned earlier.