Nope, I think he's serious.
My response:
1. There's a difference between letting employees know the server names to use to access their corporate email from their personal iPhones, and officially "supporting" personal iPhones. A lot of that also depends on how high up the employee is: CEOs & upper-level management are more likely to have the IT department provide tech support when their smartphone goes down, rather than the rank-and-file employees. Corporate IT departments have budget constraints, remember, & they have neither the time nor the money to provide support for devices *that employees paid for with their own cash*...especially when the manufacturer & software vendors should already be providing support. It's like calling your ISP for tech support when the CNN.com website is down, or your PC won't boot up: your ISP provides the Internet connection, not the physical hardware or the destination you're trying to reach.
2. I highly doubt most, if any, corporations are currently working on developing in-house smartphone apps for exclusive use by their employees, for the simple fact that the majority of companies & agencies don't provide their rank-and-file employees with a company cellphone, let alone a company smartphone. No company smartphone = no need for company-provided apps & lower demand for apps specific to the organization's internal needs.
3. Most employers don't even want you logging into social media websites, & tend to configure network access to block it. And about the only true effect we've seen on employment, at least based on recent news articles, has been when employees were fired for their social network postings. Not exactly a positive result there.
