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The enterprise features are nicer on iOS and less confusing for clients and administrators. So I can understand the appeal of eliminating android.
Play services actually works very well for containerizing work apps. Better actually than on iOS. My work can offer a set of apps that are available in this isolated container and apply policy to them that doesn't impact other areas of the phone. I can also shut off all of them with a single button when I am on PTO. Microsoft's apps require these services to build the container, and I believe Android phones in China do not have play services. It's not perfect, but I personally think it works very well.
Oh sure, its not bad. It's just that's exactly the issue. The hybrid configuration of work apps and personal apps in my experience was mentally draining to explain time after time to people and configure in intune and knox. People frequently used it incorrectly. With iOS it was much more subtle and friendly experience I rarely had any issues with the apple users. Perhaps we were using it wrong, but it was a miserable experience for everyone involved.
We tried the work only configuration that was much more pleasant to maintain but we were threatened with a strike if we didn't let people install their own apps.
Edit: This was back in the galaxy s7 days so maybe it's better now.
Maybe read the text? It has nothing to do with prefering iOS. It's just google refused to comply with China's spyware requests some time ago (a broken clock and all that), so it's literally impossible to use android for this in China. Apple on the other hand is happy to suck China's dick hahahaha, so it's the only option. Man, you Apple fans are really brainwashed, this is a bad look for Apple hahahah.
Yeah, I'm not a apple fan. I'm just trying to find the silver lining in a crappy situation. "It's less work managing one environment at least" was the thought.
Personally I strongly prefer Android and I'm happy to see the EU cracking down on Apple.