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Re: Apple Business

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Post by dijit »

p_ing wrote: post #157
martibravo wrote: post #17

599$ serviceable MacBooks, easy to use MDM, Cloud, Email and Calendar and flat-fee AppleCare all baked in? New businesses under 50 employees are going to eat this up like there's no tomorrow. I'd be scared if I was certain Redmond corporation who makes their money on 365 and Intune.

This ignores that Apple is unable to manufacture enough computers per year to be disruptive. 25m Macs in calendar year 2025. Lenovo manufactured 19m PCs in Q4 2025. Apple simply lacks volume.

Weird, never had an issue getting my hands on an Apple laptop of any desired configuration, even odd keyboard layouts for the region (UK and Sweden).

Had plenty of issues getting specific specification Thinkpads: because they are largely sold through resellers and they don’t stock all SKUs I suppose.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by doctorpangloss »

p_ing wrote: post #157
martibravo wrote: post #17

599$ serviceable MacBooks, easy to use MDM, Cloud, Email and Calendar and flat-fee AppleCare all baked in? New businesses under 50 employees are going to eat this up like there's no tomorrow. I'd be scared if I was certain Redmond corporation who makes their money on 365 and Intune.

This ignores that Apple is unable to manufacture enough computers per year to be disruptive. 25m Macs in calendar year 2025. Lenovo manufactured 19m PCs in Q4 2025. Apple simply lacks volume.

okay dude, how many phones did it manufacture in Q4 2025?

87m

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/mar/tern...

do you think lenovo would rather manufacture 19m PCs or 87m phones? i don't know, you raise an interesting point that is wrong.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by carlosjobim »

dangus wrote: post #111
martibravo wrote: post #17

599$ serviceable MacBooks, easy to use MDM, Cloud, Email and Calendar and flat-fee AppleCare all baked in? New businesses under 50 employees are going to eat this up like there's no tomorrow. I'd be scared if I was certain Redmond corporation who makes their money on 365 and Intune.

Serviceable != upgradable or long-lasting. So many people are going to get burned by the hypnotism of these Neos. They're going to be gateways into being traded in within 2-3 years to get something with more RAM and storage when their owners find out how much they struggle with basic tasks due to insufficient RAM and storage. If you actually go on Best Buy or Micro Center websites and look at street prices you'll rea…

Millions and millions of normal people have used 8GB M-series Macbooks for the past 5 years, and nobody has those problems you describe. In fact, everybody is happy to have machines which don't have the usual problems that PCs have.

Computing tasks related to real world scenarios don't need giant RAM repositories, as evident in that people could do these tasks just fine when 32 megabytes of RAM was enough.

Re: Apple Business

#165

Post by tengbretson »

p_ing wrote: post #157
martibravo wrote: post #17

599$ serviceable MacBooks, easy to use MDM, Cloud, Email and Calendar and flat-fee AppleCare all baked in? New businesses under 50 employees are going to eat this up like there's no tomorrow. I'd be scared if I was certain Redmond corporation who makes their money on 365 and Intune.

This ignores that Apple is unable to manufacture enough computers per year to be disruptive. 25m Macs in calendar year 2025. Lenovo manufactured 19m PCs in Q4 2025. Apple simply lacks volume.

I imagine the company that currently ships 250m iPhones a year can figure that part out.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by true_religion »

meego wrote: post #77

I recently tried setting Apple Business Manager for our ≈20 people SME. The first step was "Domain Lock/Capture" which takes over all Apple accounts for a specific domain. I've never had a worse experience from Apple. The process is buggy, filled with foot-guns and dead ends. It expects huge amounts of work from users who have had their account for more than a few weeks and are expected to remove a lot of their perso…

AFAIK, it works with subdomains, so you can use something like employees.example.com as your domain, and capture over that.

Re: Apple Business

#167

Post by crooked-v »

quietsegfault wrote: post #146
AnonC wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Apple's office suite is my favorite I've ever used, and it's not close. I’ve written many comments criticizing this. Do you use a lot of keyboard shortcuts when you use Numbers or Pages or Keynote or do you use the trackpad/mouse a lot? I generally find these apps and others lacking on the keyboard front, by which I mean that it’s almost impossible to use them without a trackpad or a mouse. I can completely live wi…

Can’t you set up keyboard shortcuts for basically any action in a MacOS app?

As long as it has a menu item (easy) or is exposed to Automator/Shortcuts (more complicated).

Re: Apple Business

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Post by Hamuko »

>Company data remains secure while employee data remains private, with cryptographic separation of work and personal data on devices.

Does this mean that I'm able to enroll two Apple Accounts on an iPhone at once? Or does Apple actually think that I'm gonna be storing personal data, such as my health data, on a company device with a company-managed Apple Account?

At the moment I just have two iPhones: my personal iPhone that has my data and is connected to my Apple Watch, and my work iPhone, which sits on a desk and does nothing. The separate Apple Account on the work one means that I can't connect it to an Apple Watch and I can't download my apps on it, so you either can't accumulate any personal data on the device, or you need to submit all of your personal data to your employer's Apple Account. Including whatever health data your Apple Watch produces.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by Foivos »

selectively wrote: post #124
Petersipoi wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary, nobody here is suggesting Microsoft isn't really diverse. They're suggesting that Apple is going to start to eat into their SMB market. Nobody at Microsoft is saying, "we don't care if Apple chips away at SMB because we have Call of Duty"

Microsoft offers Office for Mac. It's a thing they do. It's the full fledged Office suite. They see a Mac user the same way they see a Windows user - a source of revenue.

Office for Mac is increasingly getting feature parity with the windows version, but it is not fully there yet.

For example, if you want to use "data model" in Excel, it is only available in the windows version.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by mpweiher »

bigyabai wrote: post #75
kstrauser wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The company that just made a $600 Macbook?

Yes, the phone company that is known for taking home a bronze medal in personal computing for the past 30 years running. Apple knows the score internally, this won't change the world any more than the 12" Retina Macbook did.

The world's firs trillion dollar and three trillion dollar company. Yes, completely insignificant.

The company that captures 60-70% of the global PC industry's profits. Definitely completely insignificant.

Apple has known the score internally for decades and is laughing that score all the way to the bank.

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