[MichaelZuo]

By definition you will have access to things Apple wont publish or support at subsidized rates below the fully loaded hourly cost of a senior engineer.

Because you will be paying the full unsubsidized rate for any support needed for features not available to the mass market.

Its like how IBM will gladly send a team of senior engineers to help enterprise clients resolve every last possible request.

Edit: As compared to mass market features, where the economics dont work unless they’re close to 100% certain most users wont require any costly support.

[walterbell]

Would the following be possible, in principle?

  - Signup for Apple Enterprise account with direct billing
  - Buy one hardware device direct via Enterprise account
  - Buy one MDM license for the hardware device
  - Sign contract for support at $500/hr, no minimum commitment
  - Get access to docs & tools for iOS 18 on new hardware (don't need support)

Apple Enterprise Developer account requires 100 employees minimum, but Apple Enterprise does not.

[walterbell]

> By definition you will have access to things Apple wont publish or support at subsidized rates below the fully loaded hourly cost of a senior engineer.

If you're an Apple Enterprise customer, can you install iOS 18 on a new device today? It appears that enterprises can delay upgrade to iOS 18 post-enrollment, but cannot roll back to or provision iOS 18 on new hardware.