When I asked Apple about the licensing around apps, their comment was “Buy it once, and run it on all of your iOS devices.” This model of licensing obviously wasn’t fair (and didn’t last), but it shows that Apple was in a “get devices into schools” mode first rather than build out the infrastructure first. When I had to apply an iOS update, it took hours to accomplish. It was slow, cumbersome, and prone to error as I had to often force quit iTunes and restart the process. With the iPod touches, we would buy Apple directly from the iTunes store, and then sync them using a case similar to this one. The entire management process around Apple’s devices was less straightforward. When the iPad was released in 2010, we were already using iPod touches in the classroom along with the old MacBooks. Through his experience deploying and managing 100s of Macs and 100s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple’s products work at scale, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for students. He has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009. Let’s take a look back at Apple Configurator 1.0.Ībout Making The Grade: Every Saturday, Bradley Chambers publishes a new article about Apple in education. It wasn’t that long ago that the process was much more complicated than it is today. You enroll the devices into Apple School Manager or Apple Business Manager, get them enrolled into your mobile device management system, and then you can go from ordering the device directly from Apple straight to handing them out still shrink wrapped. Deploying and managing iPads and iPhones today is drastically different than how it was a few years ago.
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