in 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, an

in 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