I’ve never had an Apple product (aside from a uber locked down iPhone at work (really? a thousand bucks back when this thing was new, SMH, but I digress...)). Now to be sure I gained immense respect when they went all BSD under the hood, but I do have a ‘can it do what Linux can do’ question.
I assume an Apple product can do NFS and SSHFS networking, but can you set it up to forward-X?
Not a flame in any way but I date back before the GUI on Linux so for years getting things done didn’t involve pretty clicky things. If platform agnostic client-server configurations could be done with Apple I’d be very impressed.
(Again... Not a flame...)
Back about 10 years ago, I had a consulting gig where I did a deep dive on cloud file sharing offerings, and a not-so-deep dive on enterprise mobile device management. At that time, Apple and the offerings for Apple MDM were so much more secure than Android and the MDM offerings for it, that it wasn’t funny.
In terms of corporate IT, $1k for a product that will last 2-3 years is relative peanuts. Especially if it’s inherently secure, and plays well with other aspects of that corporation’s systems.