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Apple chief says Apple Business Essentials doesn't compete with Jamf
Likely because the Profile Manager in Apple Server leaves a LOT to be desired. There are a few basic things I does well, but even Apple has said on multiple occasions it basically is a proof of concept product...mcdave said:It has to be pointed out that the bulk of MDM code including enrolment is Apple’s. 3rd parties provide the (critical) UIs but this isn’t a complete Sherlock.
I never got why Apple didn’t just release an iCloud version of macOS Server so businesses could self-manage. It’ll be interesting to see how far they’ve taken this away from the Novell Netware design paradigm. Either way it should be better than Office365 which requires either PowerShell knowledge or vendor engagement - it isn’t a small business solution.That's not to say Apple couldn't or shouldn't do this, and likely do it very well. But let's not make Profile Manager the bar, let's set it a bit higher than that.
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Is the new 16-inch MacBook Pro a pro-only machine?
I'm wondering if they'll eventually come out with a 15" Air, or drop the Air name and just call it a MacBook. Would have plenty of differentiation too. 13" & 15" MacBook, 14" & 16" MacBook Prohucom2000 said:I wish there was a 16 inch MacBook Air, that would be perfect for what I need in screen size and plenty powerful.
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It's time to drop apps that don't support Apple Silicon natively
Just another Dropbox alternative. Box has added Apple Silicon support and is now using the native APIs as well...
Interesting how many developers didn't take notes after what happened to QuarkXpress. It was THE page layout program. Then it didn't get on board with the migration to Mac OS X and actually suggested people should just switch to Windows. How'd that go over for Quark???
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Developers on who can move to Apple Silicon - and who should wait
I'm not sure you talked to that wide of an array of users if you didn't find any that are concerned about this transition.
As a home consumer, sure, it should be great. As a professional, I have a number of concerns that I suspect will mean we have to move away from Macs in a number of use cases.- Bootcamp - One of the major advantages to Macs for our needs are that we can run Windows on them as well. I have by Bootcamp partition running in VMWare Fusion about 95% of the time to access Windows only tools.
- Scientific software - I support a research department at a university. We have a lot of macOS because we can easily compile and run a LOT of scientific software. A lot of that software is dependent on OpenGL, which Apple had already deprecated. I fully expect that this was simply so Apple didn't have to migrate it to Apple Silicon. This alone may push a lot of our users toward Windows, where we now can run a full on Linux layer. We may be able to get around this with virtualization and running Linux on the new Macs, we'll need to test, but it won't be nearly as convenient as running the software directly within macOS.
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Unsurprisingly, a 2020 iPad Pro will bend if you try to break it
No, vandalism is when you damage someone else's property. If they're damaging an iPad they're purchased they may be stupid, but it is in no way, shape, or form, vandalism...AppleInsider said:
And it is reprehensible to break an iPad Pro just to be patronizing. You can argue that Apple makes the iPad Pro by the millions, and you can argue that Apple designers or engineers were well paid for their work. But this is still someone's work, and destroying an iPad Pro is vandalism.
