I think a lot of the comments come down to admins’ expectations of Apple being so high on the management front because it has delivered so much on the hardware front. Here’s what Tom Bridge of the Mac Admins Podcast had to say when viewing the final results: The rest of the scores averaged in the low 3’s, which we generally map to a C+/B- in terms of American school grades. The company scored worst on software and deployment. Apple’s strongest results were in its hardware and its commitment to security and privacy. In general, scores were a bit lower for this survey than for our general end-of-year-survey. Though Kandji commissioned this survey-and we thank everyone there for doing so-it had no oversight over the survey results or the contents of this story, which was compiled and written by Jason Snell of Six Colors. Not all participants are represented we gave everyone the option to remain anonymous and to not be quoted. (If you’re an admin who didn’t take the survey, feel free to fill it out.) They rated Apple’s performance in the context of enterprise IT on a scale from 1 to 5 in nine broad areas.īelow, you’ll see the results of the survey, plus choice comments from survey participants. In the end, 83 people participated, roughly half of whom report that they manage more than 1000 devices. Then we approached people we knew in the community of Apple-device administrators and asked them to participate in the survey. We worked with Kandji and the hosts of the Mac Admins Podcast, Tom Bridge and Charles Edge, to formulate a set of survey questions that would address the big-picture issues regarding Apple in the enterprise. Device-management startup Kandji approached Six Colors to commission a new Report Card, but with a focus on how Apple’s doing in large organizations, including businesses, education, and government. It’s been a useful snapshot of the sentiment of people who spend a lot of their time thinking about and participating in the Apple ecosystem. Other developers remain utterly unmoved by all the extra work moving to Safari would entail.Apple in the Enterprise: A 2021 report cardįor the last six years, we’ve compiled a report card covering how Apple’s been doing across numerous categories of interest to users and developers. “A very small number of extensions have appeared in the App Store, and it seems quite likely that others will follow at their own pace. “So in the end, what was the net effect of Apple’s announcement of support for the WebExtensions API in Safari? It’s a work in progress,” concludes Snell. Snell also notes that developers must also adapt their extension for WebKit, join Apple’s $99 USD/year developer program, learn how to use Xcode and App Store Connect, and distribute via the Mac App Store - all of which can be additional barriers of entry.Īccording to Snell, support for the WebExtensions API in Safari is a gradual work in progress. Targeting the Mac is nice, but if they could target iPads and iPhones, we might really have something. It strikes me that Apple could rapidly drive adoption of Safari extensions if it would finally bring that technology to iOS. Other developers remain utterly unmoved by all the extra work moving to Safari would entail. A very small number of extensions have appeared in the App Store, and it seems quite likely that others will follow at their own pace. So in the end, what was the net effect of Apple’s announcement of support for the WebExtensions API in Safari? It’s a work in progress. The Mac App Store’s Safari extensions library seems to be largely populated with the same stuff that was there before Safari 14 was released, though there are some exceptions. The answer seems to be largely no - at least, not yet.
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