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What? Apple products need management?! Cupertino intros device management for SMBs

Roland6 Silver badge

>"If this is all Apple's work, that doesn't mean it's entirely hostile to the company's partners. One feature of Business Essentials is the ability to book authorised repairers to fix devices – that could be a third party, or an Apple store."

So Apple gets to exercise even tighter control over the dwindling number of authorised third-party repairers and to extract additional iStore levels of commission.

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