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Having sold hundreds of iPhone 5s's when I was selling B2B, I have to say I was fairly unimpressed. Not great battery life over time, if an employee left with i

by posguy 9y ago

Having sold hundreds of iPhone 5s's when I was selling B2B, I have to say I was fairly unimpressed. Not great battery life over time, if an employee left with iCloud enabled it was a whole affair with Apple to get them to reset the device and allow it to be reused, and the brick style design is not very comfortable overall. My favorite is the curved back, as is on most Motorola's and some LGs. Personally, I stick with cheap LG phones ($100 or so) that are rootable/rommable. If the phone gets damaged or I want a newer phone, no skin off my back, biggest concern is just moving Signal Private Messenger over to the new phone I get :P

odux 9y ago
Off topic but do you have recommendations for cheap rootable phones? (LG or otherwise)
scott_karana 9y ago
If iCloud was your problem, it's because you weren't using an MDM. That's an OS-independent problem ;)
- lunchables 9y ago
  We use MDM (Air-Watch) and it's still a problem. If the employee uses their personal iCloud account you cannot remove it. You can unlock the device remotely via MDM but you have to have their password for their iCloud account to remove the iCloud account. You have to contact Apple and provide proof of purchase for the device to have them remove the iCloud account.
  - scott_karana 9y ago
    I'm aware of what happens when Activation Lock happens when personal iCloud accounts are allowed to be installed. The issue is allowing that to happen in the first place, instead of locking it centrally. That's either a limitation in your MDM's capabilities, or its setup. ;-) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202804 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202804
lunchables 9y ago
>if an employee left with iCloud enabled it was a whole affair with Apple We would just send the phone number to our Verizon account manager and he'd send us proof of purchase for that device and we'd forward it to Apple. Wasn't a terribly difficult process, at least in my experience.

by posguy 9y ago

odux 9y ago

Off topic but do you have recommendations for cheap rootable phones? (LG or otherwise)

scott_karana 9y ago

If iCloud was your problem, it's because you weren't using an MDM. That's an OS-independent problem ;)

lunchables 9y ago
We use MDM (Air-Watch) and it's still a problem. If the employee uses their personal iCloud account you cannot remove it. You can unlock the device remotely via MDM but you have to have their password for their iCloud account to remove the iCloud account. You have to contact Apple and provide proof of purchase for the device to have them remove the iCloud account.
- scott_karana 9y ago
  I'm aware of what happens when Activation Lock happens when personal iCloud accounts are allowed to be installed. The issue is allowing that to happen in the first place, instead of locking it centrally. That's either a limitation in your MDM's capabilities, or its setup. ;-) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202804 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202804

lunchables 9y ago

>if an employee left with iCloud enabled it was a whole affair with Apple We would just send the phone number to our Verizon account manager and he'd send us proof of purchase for that device and we'd forward it to Apple. Wasn't a terribly difficult process, at least in my experience.