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A few years ago, one of the selling points from Apple was that you didn't need as big of an IT team to manage Apple products. Has something changed?
by diebeforei485 4y ago
A few years ago, one of the selling points from Apple was that you didn't need as big of an IT team to manage Apple products. Has something changed?
- fetus8 4y agoProperly maintaining and deploying hundreds of Apple products (Macs, iPads, whatever) still requires knowledge, planning, and organizing and the utilization of a well setup MDM system. I worked a role like this within an IT department many years ago and while it's not super complicated, it still required knowledge and understanding that this new Professional training is set up to provide.
- Beached 4y agoin my experience, this has never been the case. it was sold that way, but lack of management capabilities and integration just meant you didn't manage them, and left it to your end users. in the few places I worked that actually administered osx devices to the same degree as their windows and Linux endpoints, it took 10x as much administration force. we had a team of 3 administering 400 osx devices, and a team of 5 administering over 20000. apple is severely lacking in the enterprise world
- faeriechangling 4y agoOmitting centralised device management features does not reduce the IT workforce needed to maintain your products. Quite the opposite.