Robin Bienfait

When BlackBerry 10 launches, do you expect to allow employees to use their personal BlackBerrys?

Yes. I would like to see that happen. But when you work for a company that manufactures devices, everybody just has one. A lot of us have two or three.

It seems a little odd to me RIM is enabling companies to deal with, and even embrace, BYOD, which is basically saying, 'We know you can't resist this," but then RIM itself is resisting it.

Some of our financial-industry customers have around 100,000 employees. They may have a deployment of BlackBerrys for about 30,000 or them. Those are people within their business that are either trading, handling top-secret information, and they need that security, privacy and manageability [the BlackBerry offers]. The other 70,000 employees want to also be productive, but they may not need full access to the data suite that this other crowd needs. That's where they want to open up device diversity. We want to make sure we're helping them do that.