Apple certification. Is this valuable in IT industry?

It could be if you are doing IT work for companies that exclusively use Apple products. This could be a valuable certification in addition to certain Microsoft or Linux certification but I would acquire these first. Apple products are still used fairly infrequently on the server side.

Most IT professionals need to be well versed in many technology platforms rather than just specific ones.

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