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The difference is, an employer must get (for a fee) their own profile, and they manage the devices themselves. Those apps probably linked the devices with some
by miki123211 8y ago
The difference is, an employer must get (for a fee) their own profile, and they manage the devices themselves. Those apps probably linked the devices with some common profiles. That meant the parent was not really in control, the app developer was. It's like you accessing your bitcoin wallet directly versus you giving me the key and telling me what transactions to do, trusting I won't abuse it. You could argue that every parent should just get their own profile, but they're like $200 or so. A couple hundret dollars definitely. Apple could make the fee smaller, but then hackers and people who want to circumvent the APP Store would start buying profiles en masse, and Apple wants to make that unprofitable.
- tyingq 8y agoAhh. That helps. Sounds like Apple is partially at fault here for ignoring this set of needs. So, both good and bad apps appear to fill that gap.
- miki123211 8y agoI don't see how Apple could cater for those needs. The only way would be to allow anyone to create an MDM profile, but making them free and abuntant defeats all the security of the App Store. It would just be sideloading, but a little harder. The use/abuse potential would be huge. I can imagine Netflix using loopholes like this so that users could create their own profiles and use them to install Netflix apps unencumbered by Apple's IAP limitations. That would make users accustomed to installing apps that way, and now we're one step from fake banking apps and Android's story all over.
- tyingq 8y agoParental profiles limited in total number of managed devices? Failing that, it doesn't have to be MDM. They did implement the screentime as a built in piece of functionality. Also, does Android charge for MDM profiles?
- sbuk 8y agoApple don't charge for MDM profiles
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