All Devices They've really managed to make the iOS App Store even worse

[m.wttfld]

Even so, the fact that enterprise users don’t care about update that much already tells something, and the main reason why Microsoft still gives enterprise user the ability to delay OS update longer than usual. In a mission critical environment, stability outweighs everything else. Here is an example: Sydney train computer system was undergoing a system upgrade one Friday night, but it went wrong and millions of commuters at Saturday morning were crowding key stations waiting for the train to come. You could argue their upgrade incident does not happen very often, but still, upgrade breaks things. Just like how developer deserts customers, customers also desert developers. Welcome to the free world.

That's why Apple lets Enterprise users delay updates (Yes, even App Updates) for custom groups within the workgroup. It's all about the fact, that iOS itself is designed to be as easy and safe to use as possible. Enterprise functionality comes only when Adopting to the Enterprise Management program Apple offers for companys. (And its functioning really good.) And for all enterprise users that don't have their company setting up that MDM solution, you can just turn off Auto-Updates within the settings.

And just a short reminder that old Windows System software is a big security failure (Example: WannaCry)

 

[Shirasaki]

That's why Apple lets Enterprise users delay updates (Yes, even App Updates) for custom groups within the workgroup. It's all about the fact, that iOS itself is designed to be as easy and safe to use as possible. Enterprise functionality comes only when Adopting to the Enterprise Management program Apple offers for companys. (And its functioning really good.) And for all enterprise users that don't have their company setting up that MDM solution, you can just turn off Auto-Updates within the settings.

And just a short reminder that old Windows System software is a big security failure (Example: WannaCry)

Upon realising you are strictly talking about Apple and its enterprise program, I decide to quit. As for the “big security failure” thing, tons of older iPhone iPad Mac that cannot be upgraded are security failures because their software cannot be upgraded, with iPhone 6 iPad Air iPod touch 6 etc being the latest obsolete devices without iOS 13 support.

 

[m.wttfld]

Upon realising you are strictly talking about Apple and its enterprise program, I decide to quit. As for the “big security failure” thing, tons of older iPhone iPad Mac that cannot be upgraded are security failures because their software cannot be upgraded, with iPhone 6 iPad Air iPod touch 6 etc being the latest obsolete devices without iOS 13 support.

Yeah of course, i mean, we are in a discussion page about iOS 13, right?

Of course old, unsupported devices
are a security failure. But that opens up a new topic about long term device support, thats to big to discuss here. The only thing I can say about that is that Enterprise users mainly have no problem with outdated devices due to the replacement programs every 2 to 3 years. For normal end users, unsupported devices harm their safeness , but I think that the device support on iOS devices is fairly long enough looking at the fact that every model runs an unique version of iOS heavily optimized for every device.