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Chromebooks are much more secure for enterprise and education.

macOS is awful to manage on an enterprise and education level. This will always be Apple’s achilles heel in truly breaking into this market. Admins will push back.

Google has Security down to a science. ChromeOS has little to no malware. Google is constantly reporting malware and exploits to Apple so they can patch active vulns.

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I’m not sure about that. Physical build quality on chromebooks is poor. My kids school switched off because the kids were always breaking them.

iPads a Macs stand up to much more abuse by students.

MacOS has very little malware even though users have more access to do things.

All google data is used to train AI and advertise. I’d like to not have that near my kids. Would rather have Apple’s “make money off hardware” from a data privacy standpoint.

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I never talked about build quality. There are in fact nice quality ChromeOS devices, it’s just arguably never worth the added expense.

The argument with Chromebooks is you can usually buy 4 of them at the cost of a single Mac.

My point is device management and security. This is what enterprise and education cares about and scopes around.

macOS is not nearly as robust or secure to manage as ChromeOS, and Windows flys above both with almost every single feature being manageable at a domain level.

Also your AI point is moot. Enterprise and Education have much different terms than consumers.

You think Apple is letting Google, Slack, and Zoom use their internal company data for training?

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There is no Chromebook with the same build quality as a Mac at a comparable price. Thomas try for $1000 MacBooks and even more so for $600.

This is an important feature as kids are rough on machines.

Security on Macs is good and I’m not sure why you think management is so hard as it’s not the same as windows, but still easy enough to manage a few hundred or thousand for a school system.

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My school, my college, and my current enterprise (Fortune 500, etc.) environment all manage it just fine.

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At my last company the support staff for the Macs was one fifth the size of that supporting the PCs (almost the same quantities of Macs and PCs)