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Windows, despite its flaws, has always been the best for enterprise features, like WSUS, Active Directory, etc. And you can also do netBIOS or deepfreeze shit. I used to do network imaging for this place that would refurbished computers, and instead of configuring them all manually, you'd just use a liveCD and then burn a disk image (of preconfigured Windows) to the HDD, then put in the activation key and all the other settings would be the set up already. Or there were tons of other ways of managing large groups of computers.

Android and iOS seem way more consumer-oriented, not as good for enterprise features. The only thing I can really think of would be to install a VNC or some other kind of remote access software so you can then manage them all remotely, though that might not scale really well. Maybe VNC + AutoHotKey? Kind of a shitty way to do it, but you can automate keyboard/mouse input with AHK scripts.

clarification: VNC server on the android devices, log in with your computer, then run the AHK script on your computer to automatically send the same key/mouse inputs

>>1003212

yeah we use a software currently called mobicontrol that is capable of pushing out configurations for particular apps/programs (wavelink telnet emulator in our case), but first the device has to be on the network, which means we need to get our wireless profile on the device, without rooting it (so the conf file containing wifi profiles can be edited), and without tapping the settings in to each device

the only thing i've found that would accomplish that would be to use some kind of mdm, but that would require the device be connected to the network in the first place, or to write an app that simply installs the wifi profile because the wifi settings are exposed to the sdk

>>1003212

and yes you're absolutely right that windows is better for enterprise (but it sucks to program for), but motorola scanners are changing to android exclusively

this would be so much easier with ios