Can I please just have multiple users on my iPads, please?
Doesn’t Shared iPad do exactly this?
Yes, but you have to have MDM. I don't want to run MDM for my kids.
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#422This 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
ever worked in IT support? letting people customize their environment both increases the amount of support that users require, and increases the difficulty of providing that support.
a laptop in a stock configuration can be swapped out for a new one when it breaks. a laptop that has three years of accumulated customizations installed on it means that the employee wants their laptop back when it breaks, and they want it fixed ASAP.
when you're supporting a user who doesn't know how to type a URL into their web browser, it's a whole lot easier if you don't have to start that call with asking what web browser they're using.
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#424Would be nice if you could buy a Macbook with a proper on-site warranty. Dell, Lenovo, HP will gladly send a technician to your house, and their NBD warranties cost about the same as Applecare. And they don't care if you're an enterprise or an individual buying one measly laptop.
They're cheap enough and Apple stores ubiquitous enough that you just go and replace it as needed, and send the now-defunct one in for repair.
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#425One of the last great consumer companies is going B2B
Apple has gone the way of AmEx and Uber. There are no massmarket "great consumer companies" left in the USA, as far as I can tell.
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
I gave up when it wanted a Dun and Bradstreet number (whoever they are) and the website to get one didn't work.
Dun & Bradstreet is a business credit agency. Having a D-U-N-S number, which they issue, is like table stakes for being taken seriously as a business.
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
At most decent sized companies with a cyber security and network admin team, this is probably the fastest way to get disconnected from the internal corporate network with no way to reconnect.
This was a larger company and they did not care so long as you followed policies like turning on encryption. Companies do differ.
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#428I was hoping to see more geographies in which AppleCare would be available.
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#429This 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
Regulatory compliance. If you want to sell your product to the UK, for example, you have to (see: UK Cyber Essentials). The more you try to expand your market, the more regulations you will run into that are solved with spyware and locked down computers.
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#430Earlier quoted context omitted.
I gave up when it wanted a Dun and Bradstreet number (whoever they are) and the website to get one didn't work.
Dun & Bradstreet is a business credit agency. Having a D-U-N-S number, which they issue, is like table stakes for being taken seriously as a business.
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