On: City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products

[hopeless]

There's a long history of other professions providing their own equipment: barbers buy their own scissors, chefs buy their own knives and builders/plumbers/electricians are often required to buy some equipment themselves.

I'm not saying I agree with it, particularly when working for big corporations, but it's not unprecedented.

[jaylevitt → hopeless]

Very few scissors store company-confidential data.

[mjwalshe → hopeless]

None of those are "profesions" in the strict sense of the word

Dont forget that many builders/plumbers/electricians are not employees but contractors.

And Hairdressing (at least in the UK) has some bysantine working practices that only exist in that industry

[snowwrestler → mjwalshe]

Doctors buy their own stethoscopes.

[mjwalshe → snowwrestler]

Again Doctors are a special case

They are all self employed in the UK. They have a day job in the NHS and have private practice.