The mobile platform industry is already confusing enough and Ephraim Schwartz has had enough — particularly in light of the IBM-Sprint Nextel news that the latter will adopt the former’s Lotus Expeditor. “If IT does detect some kind of business benefit from mobility, my advice is to wait until we see who wins out among all the providers of these discrete, siloed mobile technologies,” Schwartz explains in Take the smarts out of smartphones. “One way to approach untangling this industry, from an IT perspective, would be to declare a companywide edict deciding on one of the above and establishing a policy that supports nothing else.” Technology Industry