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Imaging. We used to say that we “imaged” computers. An image was a perfect representation of a device that was ready to go into the hands of a user. The images were often monolithic or later packages that created an end result that still appeared like one completed monolith. But then came iOS and then iPadOS. Administrators didn’t “image” iOS or iPadOS devices as much as they “prepared” them, or at least that’s what the buttons in the software said at the time. These days, preparing a device to go into the hands of an end user is more about provisioning the device to a user than it is about imaging the device.
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Edge, C., Trouton, R. (2023). iOS Provisioning. In: Apple Device Management. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9156-6_5
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