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025: Mobile Device Management and More

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Recorded live November 5, 2013

Topics:

- Apple Configurator and the issue with Find My iPad and Activation Lock

- using Apple Configurator in combination with a cloud-based MDM solution; e.g. AirWatch with AirWatch app

- LinkedIn proxying emails using its LinkedIn Intro service; see also

- MTC vs. MTC+: MTC focuses mostly on Apple's solution, whereas MTC+ focuses more on third party solutions

- basic Mobile Device Management features for small office use: remote wipe, remote lock

- tip about updating to iOS 7.0.3, removing and re-adding the stored Fingerprints

- Sam's impressions on the Synology DS1513+

- plus, Sam teases what's to come from his trip to Apple Professional Services Camp

Follow up:

- Jerry "rolling back" his client to Mountain Lion

007: App development with ACN Justin Esgar

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This week, Joe, Sam, and Jerry are joined by fellow ACN, Justin Esgar of Virtua Computers and Autriv Software Development, maker of the SignMyPad app, the Magnetic Stylus, and more.

Topics

We discuss aspects of app development including working with contractors, outsourcing, and providing end user support, and explore some pitfalls including user confusion and bias toward negative reviews.

Naturally, we also manage to talk shop. Jerry shares his encounter with permissions issues after migrating from a Time Capsule backup to a new Mac that came home from the Apple Store with a new user account, and Joe describes similar permissions issues when migrating from a clone of a corrupted Time Capsule backup.

We also discuss the importance of protecting sensitive data with FileVault 2, and compare it to PGP Whole Disk Encryption and legacy FileVault.

Plus, a live calendar check with three consultants!

Mentions

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Memorable Lines

Justin: "Don't make an App."

 

001: WWDC Keynote Reflections: Mac Pro, Mavericks, iOS 7

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Listen to co-hosts Sam Valencia of HCS Technology Group, Jerry Zigmont of MacWorks, and Joe Saponare of PsiMac discuss our post-WWDC reflections, recorded on June 21, 2013 – the first day of summer and the beginning of our new podcast.

Topics:

  • The new Mac Pro
  • Mavericks
  • iOS 7
  • The next ten years of Apple
  • Mac and iOS vs. Windows 8
  • Iterative innovation or alien technology?
  • Predicting the longterm effects of technology

Show Notes:

Thanks to fellow ACN, Joe Fong, who sent me the Power Mac G4 Cube almost six years ago.

Regarding predicting the pricing of 1 TB of flash storage for the new Mac Pro: upgrading the MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina display to 768 GB flash storage from 128 GB costs $900 as a CTO option on the Apple Store.

According to Apple's iOS 7 features page: "AirDrop is available on iPhone 5, iPad (4th generation), iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation) and requires an iCloud account."

It was Windows 95 that didn't ship with IE or TCP/IP with the default network installation, not Windows XP.

The Steve Jobs story recalled by Joe is told by Andy Hertzfeld at folklore.org. Steve Jobs once motivated an engineer to improve the startup speed of the original Macintosh by saying it would save dozens of lifetimes:

 
“How many people are going to be using the Macintosh? A million? No, more than that. In a few years, I bet five million people will be booting up their Macintoshes at least once a day. Well, let’s say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and that’s 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that’s probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you’ve saved a dozen lives.”

“That’s really worth it, don’t you think?”
— Steve Jobs, 1983