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No, it's not a problem. But Apple could have covered those bases themselves, like Microsoft did with Windows (via Active Directory, Azure AD, etc.)
by TimTheTinker 5y ago
No, it's not a problem. But Apple could have covered those bases themselves, like Microsoft did with Windows (via Active Directory, Azure AD, etc.)
- prmoustache 5y agoYes but AD is king and has been for many years and is virtually undethronable. You can authenticate linux and macos X users to AD, this is the only thing they needed. To compete with MS they would have had to build infra tools that are also compatible with MS product. This would have been a high risk low reward task.
- TimTheTinker 5y ago> This would have been a high risk low reward task. Not if they had already captured the market on the Mac OS X-only side and were expanding outwards. Remember, this was the mid 2000s, when Apple had already released Safari for Windows, in addition to iTunes for Windows (which they had announced during a keynote with the quip "Hell just froze over"). A lot of things were possible, and the future was looking bright again for Apple. Microsoft also had just released Vista, which was flopping. Microsoft had been abusive for years to honest competitors and the open-source world, and was still spreading FUD about Linux. So there was some hope (and a strong wish) among Apple devotees that Apple could and would finally make inroads into historically Microsoft-held ground. We had no idea what was ahead with the introduction of smart phones and cloud-based infrastructure/computing.
- vetinari 5y agoThey used to have Open Directory, but that went nowhere. Mac users never really appreciated directory services.