Apple Announces 'Business Essentials' Service for Small Businesses

[john42121]

Would this enable multiple user profiles on iPads?

 

[Abazigal]

Easy way of adding a couple of billion dollars to Apple’s bottom line.

 

[happygodavid]

It would probably work. You can choose to manage or not manage many of the settings on the computer. There appears to be away to enroll "non-ADE" enrolled computers. The question is, if you don't want to manage a user's computer (and will allow them to BYOD), why do you even want to manage the computer?

Thanks for the reply, and you raise a good question. It's not that I "manage" them, per se. If someone comes to work here, we give them a relatively new Mac that's been wiped. They set it up however they want and use it for work, but we're not going to keep them from using it as a personal computer. I'm just sorta the go-to guy when anything goes wrong. If I can't fix it in less than 20 minutes, I tell them to book a Genius Bar appointment (GB is 5 minutes from here.). So I think you may have helped answer the question: "...why do you even want to manage the computer?" That's a great question. I'm not sure I do. I think I just want to have the option of getting support when we need it, but we already have that with AppleCare and GB support. I've poked around a bit more on what they're offering, and it seems to me like the main thing that may benefit us would be expedited support and the potential for repair folks coming to us. We just don't need to dictate what is on our employees' machines. As long as they're doing their jobs, the computer isn't something we fuss over; it's also a small bonus for folks who work here.