ferricoxide<p><span>Several years back, my employer decided that they needed to implement </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/Apple" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a><span> Mobile Device Management. They were seeking an organizational-level security certification and, as a shop that's almost exclusively Apple-based for hardware, </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/MDM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MDM</a><span> was how they could manage the fleet of company-owned and/or -issued laptops, phones and other, in-office devices. I was on a contract that was temporarily operating at a reduced level of effort and my company was still allowing OT at the time. Knowing that I don't much sleep and that I was always looking for OT-cash, I was tasked with creating an MDM solution for them (selecting a service-provider, doing account setup and writing initial security-profiles to apply to devices).<br><br>Ever since then, my work-email gets messages from Apple and from the MDM service-provider. Yesterday, I got a "buy the new iPhone 17 Pro" come-on from Apple.<br><br>…I, uh, hate Apple products. Not because my early computers weren't Apple. Not because they were a pain in the ass to manage during my first post-college jobs (Apple fleet management in the early 90s </span><i><span>really</span></i><span> illustrated the </span><a href="https://lawsofux.com/teslers-law/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>conservation of complexity</span></a><span> thing — and while Tesler's law mostly frames things in terms of users and systems assuming the inherent complexity, in the case of Apple technology in corporate settings, the burden fell heavily on </span><i><span>administrators</span></i><span>) plus a </span><i><span>lot</span></i><span> of the Apple </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/fanbois" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fanbois</a><span> I've met over the years have been even more insufferable than the </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/LinuxZealots" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinuxZealots</a><span> I've had to tolerate.</span></p>