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> Smart to focus on smaller businesses but foolish albeit expected to only include Apple products in the solution. Eh, it depends why you think they are doing
by Closi 5y ago
> Smart to focus on smaller businesses but foolish albeit expected to only include Apple products in the solution.
Eh, it depends why you think they are doing it.
If you think they are offering this because they want to get into selling MDM software, then yeah, it's foolish.
If, on the other hand, you imagine that they are offering this because they want to encourage small businesses to go 'wall-to-wall' Apple, and for a benefit of this to be that if you go 'Apple' you effectively have some level of a technical support contract too with on-site hardware repairs (not really offered in a compelling way by any other hardware vendor), then it might not be so foolish from a commercial perspective.
I suspect it's the latter - make going 'all in' on Apple a super appealing proposition for small businesses.
The second thing is, Windows is very appealing for small businesses because, amongst other things, configuration and management of users, sign ins, security policies e.t.c. through AAD / Office 365 is brilliant, so this seems to close the gap a bit.
> Apple doesn't sell servers anymore or allow anyone to develop server products for them.
This seems to be more like an MDM/device management and user management/onboarding solution, not something you would install or use to manage servers.
- codyb 5y agoIt also seems like a progression for this product would go from "All Apple" to "Mixed Use". No need to lose the "All Apple" money while you're working on the "Mixed Use" software if you're going to take that road.