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Apple @ Work: Addigy’s Watchdog utility highlights the benefits of Apple’s standardization for device management

tigaman webdesign — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000

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I’ve often said that the Apple IT community is a tight-knit one. To be honest, most of us old-timers are still shocked at how quickly Apple has become one of the dominant endpoints in the enterprise. I can still remember back when Apple didn’t even support Microsoft Exchange. We’ve come a long way as an industry and as a community. Recently, Addigy released a new WatchDog utility aimed at resolving a lingering macOS bug, and instead of releasing it for its customers only – the company released a version that fixed the bug for everyone. It highlights the close-knit vibes of the Apple community and the benefits of Apple’s standardization of device management APIs.

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Vodafone and Three Merging Networks to Form UK’s Largest Mobile Operator

tigaman webdesign — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:30:29 +0000

British mobile phone operators Vodafone and Three UK have agreed a deal to merge their UK-based operations, which if approved by regulators will make it the biggest mobile network in the country.

Currently the biggest players in the UK mobile market are Virgin Media O2, with around 24 million customers, and EE, which has 20 million users.

Vodafone and Three UK are the third and fourth largest mobile firms, but the merger will give them around 27 million customers, taking their combined market share past Virgin Media O2’s.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will now examine the merger, specifically to look at whether it will push up customer prices.

Vodafone and Three claimed the deal will be “great for customers, great for the country, great for competition,” but the CMA may not see it that way.

The same competition watchdog in May blocked UK approval for Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard.

Speaking to the BBC News, Karen Egan, head of mobile at research firm Enders Analysis, said similar deals in other countries had not led to price hikes, but added that “CMA’s hawkish approach to mergers of late is not encouraging.”

The Unite union, which represents Vodafone and Three workers, disagreed, saying that the deal was “reckless” and would “hike people’s bills and mean job losses.”

Vodafone has already set out plans to cut 11,000 jobs, with CEO and CFO Margherita Della Valle admitting in May that its “performance has not been good enough.” Both companies have since indicated additional job cuts within five years if the merger is approved.

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Addigy’s Watchdog utility to repair Rapid Software Response deployments now available for other MDM vendors

tigaman webdesign — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:30:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, I reported that Addigy had determined that as many as 25% of managed macOS devices were in a “stuck state” due to failed Rapid Software Response installations and would stop communicating back to the MDM server. Addigy had been waiting on Apple to fix the problem, but as time went on, it became apparent that it wasn’t going to be fixed on this round of macOS updates ahead of the release of macOS Sonoma.

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Addigy: 25% of managed macOS devices in ‘stuck state’ due to software compliance

tigaman webdesign — Wed, 24 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Addigy, a popular Apple device management solution, has just released its findings where 25% of managed macOS devices are in a “stuck state” for all mobile device management commands after failing to deploy Apple’s Rapid Security Responses updates. To address the issue, Addigy is releasing a new MDM Watch Dog utility to fix the issue.

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Italy’s antitrust watchdog probes Apple over alleged App Store abuse

tigaman webdesign — Thu, 11 May 2023 16:49:23 +0000

Italy’s antitrust agency AGCM said on Thursday it had opened a probe into Apple’s App Store for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the apps market, seemingly focused on Apple’s application of App Tracking Transparency to third party developers vs. its own in-house apps.

Apple’s App Tracking Transparency

Reuters,:

The watchdog said Apple penalised third-party app developers by imposing “a more restrictive privacy policy” than it applies to itself, from April 2021.

Furthermore, external app developers are disadvantaged “in terms of the quality of the data made available by Apple,” the AGCM said in its statement.

In an emailed statement to Reuters, Apple said it applies privacy rules “equally to all developers, including Apple”.

According to the Italian watchdog, users of non-Apple apps have more visible and more strongly worded prompts to block data tracking.

MacDailyNews Take: Last June, Germany’s Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) said it was also looking into Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy rules for third-party apps to see whether they give Apple preferential treatment.

As we wrote at the time: “Apple does not track users across third-party apps and websites, selling user tracking data to other companies, which is why Apple apps do not display the App Tracking Transparency prompt to obtain the users’ permission to allow the collection of end user data and the sharing of it with other companies for purposes of tracking across apps and web sites.”

Apple employs on-device intelligence and other features to minimize the data that the company collects in Apple’s apps, browsers, and online services, and the company does not create a single comprehensive user data profile across all of our apps and services.

More info: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Data.pdf

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Italy’s antitrust agency opens probe into Apple App Store dominance

tigaman webdesign — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:33:13 +0000

Italian antitrust agency AGCM has opened an investigation into Apple, alleging that the company disadvantages third-party developers with restrictive policies.

Apple is under another round of antitrust investigations, as Italy’s antitrust watchdog has begun scrutinizing Apple’s App Store policies concerning third-party developers.According to Reuters, the agency said that Apple imposes “a more restrictive privacy policy” on third-party developers than it does to itself.

Italy’s antitrust agency opens probe into Apple App Store dominance

tigaman webdesign — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:33:13 +0000

Italian antitrust agency AGCM has opened an investigation into Apple, alleging that the company disadvantages third-party developers with restrictive policies.

Latest Apple antitrust probe opens in Italy, over app privacy

tigaman webdesign — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:13:23 +0000

Another day, another Apple antitrust probe. Just yesterday we learned that the European Union was ramping up its investigation into Apple Pay, and today Italy’s competition watchdog has announced an investigation into the company’s App Store privacy policies.

This latest investigation may be new, but its topic is not: Italy is the third country to question the legality of Apple setting tougher privacy requirements for third-party apps than it does for its own apps …

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EU antitrust bureaucrats seeking more info on Apple Pay

tigaman webdesign — Wed, 10 May 2023 21:00:47 +0000

EU antitrust bureaucrats are seeking more information on Apple Pay, the company’s mobile payment system, the European Commission said on Wednesday.

Reuters:

The EU competition watchdog last year accused Apple of restricting rivals’ access to its tap-and-go technology, Near-Field Communication (NFC), used for mobile wallets, making it difficult for them to develop rival services on Apple devices.

“We can confirm the sending of requests for information,” a commission spokesperson said, while declining to provide details.

The commission’s request for information to rivals and retailers is unusual as it comes three months after Apple defended itself at a Feb. 14 hearing.

The regulator, which can fine Apple up to 10% of its global turnover if found guilty of breaching antitrust rules, typically issues decisions after such hearings.

MacDailyNews Take: This latest EU bureaucratic meddling could eventually affect what happens when an iPhone or Apple Watch is brought near an NFC reader where, currently, the Apple Pay and Apple Wallet interface automatically appears. Now, Apple may need to add a setting to allow to users to set this to allow third party contactless payment systems instead.

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UK antitrust case against Apple fails again; one more appeal possible

tigaman webdesign — Wed, 03 May 2023 14:55:27 +0000

A UK antitrust case against Apple has once again been thrown out, after an appeal tribunal ruled that the original decision was correct – that the UK’s competition watchdog had missed a legal deadline.

The ruling stands despite the fact that two Apple App Store policies were found to be anticompetitive, and even though the tribunal appeared to agree that its own decision was likely to have “undesirable or unfortunate results” …

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