MDM is so common in every tech company - I bet Apple’s own employee issued macs are managed, it is inexplicable how this is still a problem.
I thought so too. The Apple retail employee that gave me the demo of the Vision Pro confirmed this. He said the manager at his store had a Vision Pro and wanted to use it with his Apple-issued Mac, which was managed via MDM.
It essentially adds a special entitlement to someone’s Apple ID, similar to how a dev gets App Store Connect access added to their Apple ID when they enroll into the developer program.
This makes it so that every MDM device is logged into the personal Apple ID.
Also - I’m not super well versed in MDMs, but they seem to come in two general flavors/deployment strategies: bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and manage a fleet of employer-owned hardware.
In my experience, I’ve only ever seen BYOD policies for employee-owned _smartphones_ (e.g. for access to an intranet mail server). I’ve never worked anywhere that permitted employees to use their own _workstations_.
Apple Connect, SSO authentication service, is used by all Apple employees, both corporate and retail.
The actual MDM itself (what is allowed, how much is controlled, what can be accessed, etc. etc.) does vary from corporate to retail and between employee roles and departments and from device to device (BYOD v. Apple owned devices).
To facilitate this they use a bit of a patchwork of mainly in-house developed solutions and Jamf MDM services.
A lot of it is pretty well documented in public, The Apple Wiki page[0] on Apple’s internal apps would be a good entry point to go down the rabbit hole, should you be so inclined.
Just keep in mind that a lot of the information on the inner workings of Apple will be perpetually outdated, due to the nature of that information and its reliance on employees leaking information. You’ll find that most publicly available information is about stuff on the retail side, because corporate employees usually are more risk averse when it comes to jeopardizing their job.
The fact companies sell products to stick mounting gear on a Macbook to mount your iphone to capture better video will tell you theres a market.
It’s just basic physics: you cannot have 1-inch sensor with a lens right on top of it in 3-5mm of total thickness. Just the same way your eye is not flat but 2cm long.
The options are 3rd party things to mount your phone that take up way more space.
Would you like 1cm black border around your display like it’s a pc from 2010?
Short answer: all this would make an ugly laptop.
That’s why they created belkin magsafe iphone camera mount
Also camera hole has a diameter of 1.6cm.
That’s why macbook from 2010-2013 has better camera quality: it has thicker display and more space for camera module.
Might just be the only example where I actually agree with Apple about keeping something as thin as possible.
I wouldn’t want a thicker laptop screen just for a bigger lens. Pointless.
Joined her on a travel trip. She went to the office, decided to try using her iPad as a second monitor via usb c… nope. Can’t do that.
No idea why. It’s unlocked. It’s trusted. Why can’t it be used?
Went looking on the AppStore and I had bought Duet on December 2004!
They went subscription based, https://www.duetdisplay.com/
That sucks.
They can be the same or different. And this hasn't changed for years.