The enshittification knows no bounds.
It used to be necessary to use a slew of dodgy providers like Jama, with is 2000 website (and why would I trust any small company with all my enterprise data). ABM didn’t provide the MDM part and that was most annoying. It seems normal to integrate account management and MDM, so I’d love to use it.
That ABM is full of bugs, the Apple team incompetent, and D&B being Dumb and Dunber is another question.
I can say that the MDM solution I went with leaves a lot to be desired, but it works and it’s cheap. Since I’m only managing iPads, I really wanted to go with Apple for the simplicity, but, like I said, the price was too high (at the time at least).
Not a particular area of expertise for me, but the times I've had to deal with it just seemed like an inherently complex and messy problem.
Absolutely do not touch this product with a ten-foot pole.
if they can also monetize - location api - via Apple Maps + business messaging that's easily 3+ Billion of revenue yearly.