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Meh. Techies keep ranting about it but regular users are just fine with it.
As someone 'technical' who sat close to 'normies' who hated the helpdesk guys so much they would interrupt me with their problems, no they do not.
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…
Apple's cloud software has been buggy as hell for a long time, at least for me. I'm in a family iCloud group with my parents... one day I just woke up and had all my podcasts and music replaced with my Mum's :/ Would not want this anywhere near a "business" experience
I have a lot of technical understanding with how CloudKit works and there's not a pathway for what you're describing to come out of a family group.
This announcement is pretty sad. If you're wondering why Apple is an IT department nightmare, this announcement is more of a confession. Today your corporate MacBook can have ... preinstalled software! And user groups (for the Apple store and iCloud). Wait, there's more! > In addition, customers can now set up business email, calendar, and directory services with their own domain name for seamless and elevated commun…
Why people bother with all of this to lock the environment into some kind of corporate nightmare? Why not allow some freedom for the worker. I don't see the appeal, it feels like a claustrophobic cage
Even if your Corp doesn't want to do full user surveillance, there's still a lot of advantages to group policy. Roll out new software instantly, SSO enforcement, remote troubleshooting, etc.
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Sure, Apple's dominance in sourcing, manufacturing and all other aspects of logistics surely has no place in this conversation. ' The NEO is a masterclass in how integrated these systems actually are.
The Neo is a phone with a big screen.
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…
I gave up when it wanted a Dun and Bradstreet number (whoever they are) and the website to get one didn't work.
It's 2026 and you have to delete contacts one at a time, or press and slide to select a group of them until you reach one you don't want to delete, delete that group, then start over again.
Other basic functionality I'd like includes being able to remote control an iPhone from a device which isn't a modern Mac, and being able to plug in an iPhone and use it as a removable storage device.
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Does it matter? Apple's revenue/profit was $108B/$25B in 2011. It was $416B/$112B in 2025. They're clearly doing something right.
I think the average idiot can take a really strong business and weaken the bones for some quarters or years of extra profit, possibly insane profit, before lack of focus on what really made the company strong starts to erode the fundamentals. I think we’re seeing that with Apple personally. It’s just colossal though so there’s a lot of squeezing and a lot of profit before it really catches up. And they don’t even dis…
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The domain lock process was an absolute fiasco at our company. I think this could work if you did this at the time your company launched, but the moment you have employees who have Apple IDs tied to their work email that aren't from the Business Essentials system you are stuck in an impossible-to-mange place. There are several cheap MDM solutions for Apple devices that I would rather pay for than be dependent on this…
How does a company allow personal Apple IDs?
Employee does not trust the company having access to everything else in their personal iCloud account - photos, mails, messages, calendar, reminders, etc.
Employee registers a new Apple ID with company email, as it would be only used for downloading one single app.