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Apple @ Work: The era of legacy MDM is over, and declarative management is the new standard
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WWDC has come and gone once again, and there are a number of key updates coming to the IT world this fall. One note before we begin: now is the time to test your device workflows, apps, etc. Bugs that are reported early in the beta process are the ones that get fixed.
With macOS 27 and iOS 27, the transition to declarative device management is no longer a forward-looking roadmap notice from Apple. It’s the standard. By moving legacy configurations into the declarative model and introducing powerful new native controls, Apple is giving IT departments the tools to keep Apple the best vendor for IT endpoints.
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Apple Wallet’s Digital ID feature could potentially have a major new use case soon
Last year, Apple debuted Digital ID on iPhone, allowing users to use their US passport as identification in Apple Wallet. Apple’s been rolling out drivers licenses in Wallet slowly over the past few years, but that’s on a state-by-state basis. Digital ID is universal, allowing anyone with a passport to use it.
Of course, you can use it at TSA checkpoints in airports – but Apple had a bigger scope in mind: digital age and identity verification. While not yet confirmed, it’s possible that we could see a first major implementation of this quite soon, in Claude.
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Three reasons to suspect the Apple price increases could be imminent
Last week saw a highly unusual warning from Apple that the company will need to increase the prices of its products due to the ongoing memory shortage.
Tim Cook declined to say anything about either the scale of the increases or their timing, leading to speculation on both …
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Weekly poll results: iOS 27 is okay, just okay
iOS 27 was met with a resounding “it’s okay” in last week’s poll. Okay, the sentiment among iPhone users actually leans towards positive, but most voters couldn’t work up enough enthusiasm for it to pick the “love it” option.
To be fair, this release was focused on sanding off the rough edges of the major Liquid Glass redesign and on finally delivering on promises about AI features that Apple made a long while ago. Remember all the Apple Intelligence demos during the iPhone 16 launch? Yeah, Siri AI is launching later this year, likely alongside the iPhone 18 Pro models.
Even if you...
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Apple is permanently closing three stores today, here’s the list
Apple is permanently closing three stores in the United States later today. The company first announced the closures in April, impacting locations in Connecticut, Maryland, and California. Here’s the full list.
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John Ternus set to re-establish importance of Apple’s design team when he takes over as CEO: report
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today posted the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, recapping the last ten years of Apple’s corporate structure in which the influence of the design team waned at the executive levels in the Cook era, fuelled by Jony Ive’s exit and talent departures as finance and operations had an increasingly larger say over product direction.
However, Gurman believes that incoming CEO John Ternus may be about to reset that relationship, and reaffirm the importance of the design group for the company’s future.
