MDM, Apple Business Manager, deployment workflows, and the operational reality of running a Mac-heavy business.
By the time you're at ten Macs in a small business, the "do it twice" approach has become a part-time job for whichever team member is least bad at IT. There's a name for the alternative.
The new hire opens the laptop. Signs in with their email. Walks away for fifteen minutes. The Mac configures itself. No IT call.
ABM is free and takes half an hour to set up. The companies running Macs without it are inventing problems Apple already solved.
Four years in, the M-series chips changed what a laptop is for. The team that used to need three machines per person now needs one.
