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Re: Business Essentials

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Post by mlyle »

_fat_santa wrote: post #95
Damogran6 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I figured, when my kids were a certain age, that if I took that route, they'd ALWAYS get around whatever control I put in front of them. Either at home, or at school or at a friends house. Told them there was stuff on the internet that could harm them, that there was stuff they could NOT unsee. They're 18 now, the results of the science experiment are still out, but they seem to have turned out okay.

When I think back to when I was a kid, getting around school internet filters and helping my friends remove parental controls from their devices, I can't help but think the Streisand Effect was hard at work in my brain. The adults was determined that I wouldn't see a thing so I was determined to see it because what could they be hiding? Now approaching the age where the thought of having a family and kids is on my mi…

What do you think schools should do? I teach at a school (K-12), and there's definitely circumvention of technical controls at the high school level. But I can't help but think we're a whole better off because of the filtering.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by cbushko »

supernovae wrote: post #74

I wish they had a better MDM for kids... All I want to do is ensure that NextDNS is installed/forced and that they can't remove it. Somehow, if you block store, block adding apps and block removing apps and hide the icons, kids still figure out how to remove the damn thing and the only thing you can do to block it is set a 1 minute time limit (why can't you set 0 minutes? wtf apple?) and hope they don't stay up until…

You can setup NextDNS at the router level.

Re: Business Essentials

#103

Post by vondur »

This certainly seems like a direct attack on something like JAMF, which Apple has basically blessed to be the Enterprise management tool for Apple Devices. (Ok I guess since it's less than 500 users, maybe not quite in the same ballpark as JAMF, but I'm JAMF has plenty of customers with less than 500 installed devices, and this service offers more than just management)

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by gnrlst »

This is really cool, and a very necessary offering from Apple. But dear god their promo video (at the end of the page) is unwatchable. Is it just me or have these videos gotten worse? For example, despite being impressed with the new MacBook Pro announcement (which I have purchased), I had to mute their live Apple event because of all the cringe over-edited script. Maybe I've just become allergic after working for a corporation for years. Sorry for the rant.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by subhro »

supernovae wrote: post #74

I wish they had a better MDM for kids... All I want to do is ensure that NextDNS is installed/forced and that they can't remove it. Somehow, if you block store, block adding apps and block removing apps and hide the icons, kids still figure out how to remove the damn thing and the only thing you can do to block it is set a 1 minute time limit (why can't you set 0 minutes? wtf apple?) and hope they don't stay up until…

Can't you do that with Apple configurator by creating a profile and installing it on their phones? It is clunky though.

Re: Business Essentials

#108

Post by sbuk »

fsflover wrote: post #67
smoldesu wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At this point, I think Apple's PRISM compliance is common knowledge. I hope.

Looking at the downvotes, it seems, it isn't. More info: https://www.cultofmac.com/230358/everything-you-need-to-know... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

The downvotes are coming because this has nothing to do with the topic at hand and you are both blatantly trying to start a flame war. You both have form on Apple threads. If they bother you that much, stop reading articles about them.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by Cipater »

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.

>Does anyone know why this is the case?

They want people to think of iPads as personal devices like a phone rather than communal devices leading to buying one for each member of the family.

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