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Re: Apple Business

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Post by jazzyjackson »

lynx97 wrote: post #356
ndespres wrote: post #212

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If they’re using Managed Apple IDs they will have no access at all to the app store and won’t be able to download their own apps anymore. IT department will have to buy and assign any apps that anyone needs, even the $0 ones that only 1 person needs.

If my employer did that to me, I would seriously consider sueing them.

You’ve never been issued a work computer that’s not yours to fuck around with?

Re: Apple Business

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Post by jazzyjackson »

ezfe wrote: post #332
matt_daemon wrote: post #269

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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'm just gonna go ahead and say that I'm not sure what happened there but either you or your mom signed in with your account on the other device. 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.

Maybe Something to do with Family Purchase Sharing. I didn’t realize when I bought an audio book it would appear in my dad’s library. Kind of embarrassing. Apple’s help pages make it sound very opt in but I think there are bugs where libraries are merged by default. Some say on a quiet night you can still hear Bono singing “sexy boots”…

Re: Apple Business

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Post by ghaff »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #361
lynx97 wrote: post #356

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If my employer did that to me, I would seriously consider sueing them.

You’ve never been issued a work computer that’s not yours to fuck around with?

I haven’t. Did have issued laptops that were company managed but I basically didn’t use and, in any case, I like many others reinstalled a clean operating system image and did my own support.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by ghaff »

MidnightRider39 wrote: post #82
genthree wrote: post #72

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Apple's office suite is my favorite I've ever used, and it's not close. After that, old copies of MSOffice. Next-best would be a hodgepodge of the lighter options on Linux and such. Gnumeric, Abiword, that sort of thing. Not great, but at least they're light on resources and easy to use. Distantly after that, LibreOffice. Then, modern MSOffice in last place. The only reason I'd count any of them as "worse" than moder…

Crazy how different people experience this. For me it’s completely inverted; Google is top place, then Libreoffice, then MSOffice, then anything by Apple last place.

Google does essentially everything I need. If I were more of a spreadsheet power user these days, Excel. And maybe other Office apps as needed for compatibility.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by cyptus »

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…

some years ago i tried this setup for a german company with a special char in its name („ä“) and failed because Apple was not able to match it against DUNS. It took months of support to get it done.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by lynx97 »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #361
lynx97 wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If my employer did that to me, I would seriously consider sueing them.

You’ve never been issued a work computer that’s not yours to fuck around with?

I was talking about domain capture. If you own my apple ID just because I used the company email to register it, I will definitely consider sueing you.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by onion2k »

lynx97 wrote: post #367
jazzyjackson wrote: post #361

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You’ve never been issued a work computer that’s not yours to fuck around with?

I was talking about domain capture. If you own my apple ID just because I used the company email to register it, I will definitely consider sueing you.

Just on a personal note, tying your personal devices to your work email account is a very silly thing to do. Even if it's your company you could be locked out of your company email account at any time (HR grievance, SEC investigation, hostile takeover...) Losing access to your devices and not being able to access things like reset emails at the same time would not be fun.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by foresterre »

wereHamster wrote: post #60

business.apple.com doesn't work in Firefox, it redirects you to https://business.apple.com/abm_unsupported_browser?reason=Br... Fuck you Apple.

This is annoying, but that they use user-agent solely to check irritates me even more; even (alternative) Chromium based browser like Vivaldi don't work out of the box. I usually use Vivaldi as an alternative when Firefox doesn't work.

It's 2026. I think we can expect more from Apple. It's not a small indie company after all.

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