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That, and a lot of false positives.

People that run an AD domain for their home lab, people that use apple configurator to create profiles for their own devices (can enable some settings/features that are otherwise gated behind using an MDM profile - like shared iPads), etc.

On the flip side, you are also missing all of the solopreneurs using your software for commercial use but obviously aren't spinning up a whole endpoint IT infrastructure to manage their own single device. Or contractors doing BYOD without MDM enrollment. Or small businesses/startups that are mostly BYOD, or don't do any kind of endpoint/device management...

So who are you going to catch, really?


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radicaldreamer11/04/2025

A lot of people use MDM for managing their kids devices (pinning DNS for filtering etc.)

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groby_b11/04/2025

> People that run an AD domain for their home lab, people that use apple configurator to create profiles for their own devices (can enable some settings/features that are otherwise gated behind using an MDM profile - like shared iPads), etc.

That's a tiny minority of your user base. You'll live. They'll live.

> So who are you going to catch, really?

Enterprises that are big enough to manage their fleet, but small enough to not enforce rules. Which is a good chunk of money.

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