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@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Wow. Never heard of them, but that's sure a warning to be heeded.
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Anyone remember Fleetsmith? They were a sponsor of SpiceWorld a few years ago (back when conferences were still a thing.) They had a booth and were making an Apple-centric MDM.
They just went out of business. Another one bites the dust. It always seemed like a decent product, but the Apple-only MDM model felt unusable.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Anyone remember Fleetsmith?
They just went out of business.
Umm what? Apple bought them last year.
https://support.apple.com/guide/fleetsmith/welcome/web -
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Anyone remember Fleetsmith?
They just went out of business.
Umm what? Apple bought them last year.
https://support.apple.com/guide/fleetsmith/welcome/webYes, and shut them down today. They were still operating like a separate company, though. But now they are gone.
Their announcement said "Apple made the decision...". But their FleetSmith service was operating (and I think maintained) as its own entity, just owned by Apple.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Anyone remember Fleetsmith?
They just went out of business.
Umm what? Apple bought them last year.
https://support.apple.com/guide/fleetsmith/welcome/webYes, and shut them down today. They were still operating like a separate company, though. But now they are gone.
Meh, don't care about a company staying separate year+ after acquisition. The product still exists though. Or was that cancelled as well?
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Anyone remember Fleetsmith?
They just went out of business.
Umm what? Apple bought them last year.
https://support.apple.com/guide/fleetsmith/welcome/webYes, and shut them down today. They were still operating like a separate company, though. But now they are gone.
Meh, don't care about a company staying separate year+ after acquisition. The product still exists though. Or was that cancelled as well?
Product is gone as of today. Or more or less. All paid accounts are put into "free" status. So they aren't screwing people. But the free accounts have a time limit. So it's kind of a temporary holding pattern just to give people time to move off to something else. But lots of the features are gone and the team behind is gone.
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macOS Server discontinued after years on life support
Apple is finally killing off the venerable macOS Server, directing users still clinging to Profile Manager toward Mobile Device Management solutions.
The move is arguably long overdue. Much of what made macOS Server a server was deprecated in 2018 as the company announced plans to stop the likes of DHCP and DNS in its product and directed users to handy open-source alternatives.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
macOS Server discontinued after years on life support
Apple is finally killing off the venerable macOS Server, directing users still clinging to Profile Manager toward Mobile Device Management solutions.
The move is arguably long overdue. Much of what made macOS Server a server was deprecated in 2018 as the company announced plans to stop the likes of DHCP and DNS in its product and directed users to handy open-source alternatives.
I thought it was discontinued LONG ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
macOS Server discontinued after years on life support
Apple is finally killing off the venerable macOS Server, directing users still clinging to Profile Manager toward Mobile Device Management solutions.
The move is arguably long overdue. Much of what made macOS Server a server was deprecated in 2018 as the company announced plans to stop the likes of DHCP and DNS in its product and directed users to handy open-source alternatives.
I thought it was discontinued LONG ago.
It was forgotten about long ago, and existed as only an "application" in the app store.
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Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
"but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.
I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
"but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.
I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)
Sure - but this happens all time. Competitors buy companies to get the customers to move to their product by shutting down the one one they just bought - granted not exactly the same...
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
"but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.
I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)
Sure - but this happens all time. Competitors buy companies to get the customers to move to their product by shutting down the one one they just bought - granted not exactly the same...
Right, don't get distracted by something completely different. That's viable and real, but in no way whatsoever what's happened here which is standard "profits through pure investment" strategy. No competitor was ever involved here, and there was never a "shutting down", let alone a shutting down to stifle competition.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
"but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.
I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)
Sure - but this happens all time. Competitors buy companies to get the customers to move to their product by shutting down the one one they just bought - granted not exactly the same...
Right, don't get distracted by something completely different. That's viable and real, but in no way whatsoever what's happened here which is standard "profits through pure investment" strategy. No competitor was ever involved here, and there was never a "shutting down", let alone a shutting down to stifle competition.
yes I completely understand that.
I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?
Seems unlikely to think he's make it public again. If you can operate a company, a private one is vastly more profitable. Everything he's proposing is to crush its value while getting things he personally wants.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?
Seems unlikely to think he's make it public again. If you can operate a company, a private one is vastly more profitable. Everything he's proposing is to crush its value while getting things he personally wants.
Intrigued... Which parts of his proposal do you believe will crush its value?
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?
Seems unlikely to think he's make it public again. If you can operate a company, a private one is vastly more profitable. Everything he's proposing is to crush its value while getting things he personally wants.
Intrigued... Which parts of his proposal do you believe will crush its value?
Anything that fundamentally changes the value proposition of the platform. Really key things include pushing to a pay based model (most of us are on the edge of not using the platform at all, who the heck would PAY for Twitter?), increasing the spam and garbage posts by removing moderation that barely keeps the platform usable as it is, and removing the "quotability" of having Tweets be immutable so that they can be used as a quote platform.
