> They make this sound like MDM is some scary third-party attack on their platform, neglecting to point out MDM is a system they designed. There's always been s

> They make this sound like MDM is some scary third-party attack on their platform, neglecting to point out MDM is a system they designed. There's always been some schizophrenia from Apple around MDM Apple is a huge, gargantuan company, and it wouldn't surprise me that the implementation details around enterprise deployment probably didn't get far up the chain to the people who actually care about this stuff. Someone like Tim Cook might have spent five minutes talking about its existence in 2018. > So Apple's stance here is really that parents should have less control over their children's devices than employers have over those of their employees? No, Apple's stance here is that app developers should have less control over your child's device than employers have over those of their employees. > the way it's phrased here clearly seems to be framing MDM in general as a nefarious tool. MDM is a nefarious tool when incorrectly used. Its intended use is to allow big corporates to deploy nerfed and bugged phones to their minions. Facebook and Google abused MDM a few months ago and the community cheered when Apple ripped these toys away from them. The same abuses are now discovered to be used to make creepy "child control" apps that place an app developer in control over your child'd entire phone. After all the shit went down against Facebook and Google, these app developers received fair warning that what they were doing was wrong.