Apple licensing

[Sangoma]

Problems with W10 made me think back, and remembered this.

Where I worked had a lot of ipads, bought from apple and "set up" with lightspeed be the local apple resellers.

After more than two months of messing around, we were given a promised date for them to be operational.

The day came, and within minutes I was geting calls for all kinds of things that they wouldn't do.

I couldn't see how to fix it quickly, so I dumped lightspeed and put them all on Meraki.

To make it easier for my self, I put them on emails in 10s.

Though were bought app for each machine through the VPP, I soon discovered that we only needed one license for each 10 machines, as you put it on one and it automatically propagated to the others with the same email.
I had not changed any settings to make it do this, so I just accepted it was in order, but I have always wondered if it was OK, or if there should be one license purchased for each one, wonder if anyone knows?

 

[Pound Coin]

What is the Apple licensing? Is it to do with Apple ID and iCloud? I've never known having that on 10 machines.

 

[Sangoma]

What is the Apple licensing? Is it to do with Apple ID and iCloud? I've never known having that on 10 machines.

No, it is to so with specific apps the user buys from the app store

 

[Musicman]

[deleted - not sure this post addresses your question correctly]

 

[the_accidental]

To make it easier for my self, I put them on emails in 10s.

Yeah the odd thing here is it sounds like you're re-using one ID across multiple devices, rather than managing an ID per user/device?

So you have multiple people sharing userIDs, that's not great for the employer or the employee....

 

[Sangoma]

Yeah the odd thing here is it sounds like you're re-using one ID across multiple devices, rather than managing an ID per user/device?

So you have multiple people sharing userIDs, that's not great for the employer or the employee....

The apple ids or the emails are not used or needed by the people using the devices, and there is no communication at all between any ones using the emails or ids

 

[Pound Coin]

Doesn't sound like a usual user thing, tbh.

 

[the_accidental]

The apple ids or the emails are not used or needed by the people using the devices, and there is no communication at all between any ones using the emails or ids

It's more as an employer, you want to be able to track any problems/malicious use etc to a user or a device. As an employee, I don't want to be liable for whatever nonsense/incompetence my colleagues might get up to.

The 10 devices is the per-ID limit you're hitting. IIRC apple license per-person. I don't think you're entitled to share the one license across 10 people, but you'd need to check the licenses you agreed to in the VPP.