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You can't kill Chromebook with hardware. Apple needs software if they want more share of that market.
by jeffbee 8mo ago
You can't kill Chromebook with hardware. Apple needs software if they want more share of that market.
- bubblewand 8mo agoWhat software do they need to compete with chromebooks? It has a browser (it could have several browsers, if you want). I personally prefer all their productivity software to Google’s or Microsoft’s, and it’s not a close race, but you can use those on it too. Accessibility, I was shocked to find is kinda awful on Chromebooks when I had to try to configure it, considering their target markets are kids and the elderly, while Apple’s the gold standard at that.
- jeffbee 8mo agoYou misunderstand the market. Chromebooks are bought by bureaucrats. They want provisioning, deployment, management. They want a kid to be able to throw a broken Chromebook into a big garbage bin and grab another one off the shelf and be up and running in 5 seconds.
- jungturk 8mo agoMacOS is well supported by most MDM providers today and iCloud makes it trivial to reprovision the local state on a new device.
- spogbiper 8mo agohttps://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/editions/education-fundamentals/ https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/e... this, basically
- notatoad 8mo agoGoogle account login
- tedd4u 8mo agoCan you say more about what software? (I'm sure the Neo runs Chrome perfectly fine)
- jeffbee 8mo agoJust think about the overall platform. How does MacOS update? It interrupts the user with demands, requires an administrator's password under some circumstances, and takes 20-30 minutes. Now consider how ChromeOS updates: silently and instantly.
- jungturk 8mo agoWhen deployed as a managed device, the OS updates overnight while there's no active user session.
- jeffbee 8mo agoI wonder why no enterprise where I've worked is aware of this fact, including technically sophisticated ones from Dropbox to Goldman Sachs. When I asked my favorite LLM whether Jamf Pro—which I should stress does not come in the box with MacOS—is capable of this level of zero-touch OS updates, it responded affirmatively then spent 95% of the rest of the response telling me about well-known workarounds for when such updates hang.
- jungturk 8mo agoBecause a technically-sophisticated enterprise generally wouldn't pick Jamf unless they were an exclusive Apple house - they'd consider something like VMware's Workspace One (now Omnissa) that works across windows, mac, and linux. And no need to ask an LLM - we can read the doc and notice there are 6 different deployment methods that work (out of the box) for the built-in MacOS MDM, several of which allow transparent, mandatory updates to user environments without requiring user interaction. https://docs.omnissa.com/bundle/macOS-Device-ManagementVSaaS/page/macOSUpdateManagement.html https://docs.omnissa.com/bundle/macOS-Device-ManagementVSaaS...
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- commandersaki 8mo agoThat's exactly why they will kill Chromebook. Better software ecosystem.
- jeffbee 8mo agoThat's great if they intend to, but it would be more convincing if there was any sign of them working on the software at all.