Embracing macOS: How Macs Are Quietly Infiltrating PC-Dominated Corporate Environments

Jul 28, 2024

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JAMF's official website (think Active Directory for Macs) made did a study made the discovery that MacOS is slowly making a space within typically PC-dominated enterprise environments:

“The Adoption of Mac usage in the enterprise (1,000+ employees) is growing by many measures. In the United States, average penetration of macOS devices is around 23%, compared with 17% in 2019.”

The report continues that it's not just Macs that are gaining dominance in the enterprise environment:

“Macs, of course, are not the entire story around Apple devices in the enterprise. According to IDC’s 2020 enterprise survey, iPhones account for 49% of the smartphone installed base among U.S. enterprises, and iPads account for the majority of tablets used in business.

“The proliferation of Apple devices — macOS devices, as well as iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV — in business is causing many organizations to rethink their approach to overall endpoint provisioning, management, and security.”

With Enterprise IT environments sharing tech real estate with Windows PCs, the means to manage them will make for a mixed back-end environment where the Macs are controlled by JAMF and the PCs are controlled by Active Directory. When ordering Macs, a particular challenge corporate IT will face is whether the packaging of standard software can be the same in JAMF as it would be through Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM).

It's clear in these times that while Windows is the standard, the percentage of end users wanting a Mac experience is growing more year by year.