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I think a better rule is "Treat an employer owned device as absolute kryptonite and avoid putting anything personal on it ever".

ianai 5y ago
That’d be my rule 100%. But apple apparently requires personal apple accounts be signed into on company provided devices by employees. It does sort of make sense as they want to be sure of company secrets.
- sverhagen 5y ago
  Sorry, how does it make sense? Except after a lot of gaslighting? And maybe not by you, but I also feel the arguments of "don't put personal things on your work phone" and "don't delete [personal things] off your work phone" are getting blurred easily in this whole comment section.
- analognoise 5y ago
  ...that can't be right. I wouldn't let them come over from work and rummage around my house either as a condition of working there, you'd have to be addled to accept anything like that.
  - ianai 5y ago
    Which is definitely more inline with the view of privacy I remember before the current ‘internet generation’.
    - analognoise 5y ago
      What? Nobody from today's generation would let them rummage about their houses either, would they? Although it's true I could see a generation that grew up on the internet understanding it better than the generation who always use it through a phone.
- benjaminpv 5y ago
  In an earlier thread about this same topic[1] someone that claimed to have gone through Apple's onboarding process explained that they were told (approximately) "Log in with an Apple ID. You can use an existing one, should you have it." So I think it's less a case that they're required to use a personal ID and more that they don't make explicit the fact that they can create & use a distinct one. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28242037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28242037
mgarfias 5y ago
Bingo.
leucineleprec0n 5y ago
You’re absolutely right, independent of whatever’s going on here. Why is your post downvoted? Holy hell some of you are completely lost. Don’t shill out for a fucking firm, idolatry is no lesser a vice than corporate squabbles and petty theft or whatever.

ianai 5y ago

That’d be my rule 100%. But apple apparently requires personal apple accounts be signed into on company provided devices by employees. It does sort of make sense as they want to be sure of company secrets.

sverhagen 5y ago
Sorry, how does it make sense? Except after a lot of gaslighting? And maybe not by you, but I also feel the arguments of "don't put personal things on your work phone" and "don't delete [personal things] off your work phone" are getting blurred easily in this whole comment section.
analognoise 5y ago
...that can't be right. I wouldn't let them come over from work and rummage around my house either as a condition of working there, you'd have to be addled to accept anything like that.
- ianai 5y ago
  Which is definitely more inline with the view of privacy I remember before the current ‘internet generation’.
  - analognoise 5y ago
    What? Nobody from today's generation would let them rummage about their houses either, would they? Although it's true I could see a generation that grew up on the internet understanding it better than the generation who always use it through a phone.
benjaminpv 5y ago
In an earlier thread about this same topic[1] someone that claimed to have gone through Apple's onboarding process explained that they were told (approximately) "Log in with an Apple ID. You can use an existing one, should you have it." So I think it's less a case that they're required to use a personal ID and more that they don't make explicit the fact that they can create & use a distinct one. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28242037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28242037

mgarfias 5y ago

Bingo.

leucineleprec0n 5y ago

You’re absolutely right, independent of whatever’s going on here. Why is your post downvoted? Holy hell some of you are completely lost. Don’t shill out for a fucking firm, idolatry is no lesser a vice than corporate squabbles and petty theft or whatever.