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Re: Business Essentials

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Post by jhickok »

kube-system wrote: post #42
dewey wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Storing files in iCloud Drive is very different from a backup I would argue. What a business would want in this case is Backblaze like functionality with versioning / restore. iCloud drive also doesn't really help you with restoring a full system like it is possible on iOS where all your settings, passwords and apps are just like you left them.

> What a business would want in this case is Backblaze like functionality with versioning / restore Maybe. Some businesses just back up just their user's files and just reimage machines when something goes wrong.

Honestly as an end-user that's my preference.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by stefan_ »

CaptainJustin wrote: post #43
jonathantf2 wrote: post #41

On-site repairs sounds interesting, although their computers are all glued together and every component is soldered to the board so I have no idea how they'll manage that.

I have no evidence for this but I expect the experience would be similar to visiting an Apple store.

Make an appointment 2 weeks from now, go there to hand it in, return in another 2 weeks to be handed a refurbished machine with your data gone?

Sorry to say, that's not competitive with what other vendors offer as business support.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by isodev »

I work as a freelancer and together with a few colleagues we are essentially a "small product studio". We all have "business only" devices and we are definitely going to try this Business Essentials thing. It kind of reminds me of how easy it is to setup a macOS Server. Very cool!

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by Navarr »

jonathantf2 wrote: post #41

On-site repairs sounds interesting, although their computers are all glued together and every component is soldered to the board so I have no idea how they'll manage that.

When you click the box it seems like it applies only to iPhones

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by bradfa »

lostgame wrote: post #37
jguimont wrote: post #23

I mean... I'd like to use that to manage my family's macs/iphone!

You know what would piss me off, if I had kids; would be the lack of support the iPad, in particular - has for multi-user logins. It would be huge for families, and it would also make parental controls way more of a breeze. Does anyone know why this is the case? I was positive when they made iPadOS its own thing, we'd finally see this.

I don't know why it's the case, but it is very frustrating to me. I have 3 kids and 3 iPads, not assigned per kid, just a pool they all and my wife use. Current implementation is a common "family" account logged in as a "child" on all 3 iPads with app purchase approval going to me and my wife (we both have iPhones).

This "works" just kind of OK. But it would work MUCH MUCH better if my wife could have her iCloud account sign in from the unlock screen when she wants to use it and have the kids sign in from the unlock screen on the shared kids account. The way it is now my wife ends up signing into various services she wants to use on random iPads, which isn't really ideal.

Apple's solution to my family's problem would be to buy my wife her own iPad. But we don't have a shortage of iPads, there's almost never a time when someone doesn't have an iPad available to them when they need/want it. We have enough hardware, just the software doesn't provide a way to share that hardware in a nice way.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by skoskie »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #3

Even roll your own apps to your employees, bypassing the AppStore review? Upd: the video suggests that there are 'collections' which distribute apps to users, but it is not clear if own apps can be included in these using Enterprise certificates.

You could already do that. Facebook notoriously abused the process.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

lostgame wrote: post #37
jguimont wrote: post #23

I mean... I'd like to use that to manage my family's macs/iphone!

You know what would piss me off, if I had kids; would be the lack of support the iPad, in particular - has for multi-user logins. It would be huge for families, and it would also make parental controls way more of a breeze. Does anyone know why this is the case? I was positive when they made iPadOS its own thing, we'd finally see this.

They would rather you bought an iPad for each member of your family.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by nlh »

So just to make sure I'm reading this correctly (this is not my area of speciality so bear with me):

This is Apple-hosted MDM, yes?

I took a brief spin through this world on a consulting project a few years ago and I found it SUPER weird that Apple didn't do this already. You had to do this weird dance between Apple Business Manager and the MDM solution (we ended up with SimpleMDM but looked at a bunch). I kept saying "Am I missing something? Why doesn't this service come directly from Apple?" and everyone was as puzzled about this as I was. So I guess they're finally closing the loop here.

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