Thanks to Ryan Faas over at Cult of Mac for giving our VPP infographic some extra attention. It’s good to know that others empathize with VPP-induced frustration, and are looking for a better way to handle their enterprise mobile app purchase deployment.
As Ryan explains:
There are several key points that App47 makes.
- Relying on iTunes as a way to distribute apps is simply to much trouble.
- Asking employees to purchase apps is a big time killer – getting a $3 app rolled out costs an estimated $12 in lost productivity with this method.
- VPP improves purchasing by letting business and schools purchase apps in bulk.
- Apple delivers VPP purchases as spreadsheet of iTunes/App Store redemption codes, each of which is unique and can only be used once.
- Apple doesn’t offer a simple solution of its own for rolling the individual codes out to individual users.
- Apple also doesn’t offer a simple way to ensure users actually redeem the codes and install the apps.