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Whether fair or not, i started arguing that apple wasn't a computer company years ago. They are a phone company today and everything that looks or works like a
by liquidise 8y ago
Whether fair or not, i started arguing that apple wasn't a computer company years ago. They are a phone company today and everything that looks or works like a traditional machine, servers included, are a distraction to that enterprise.
As a once-proud and fond apple fanboy, i am biased here. I miss having compelling laptop and desktop options in the Mac space. In the same way that i am still using an '09 pro and a '12 air, i bet some IT folks still cling to their server infrastructure hoping that the glory days return. C'est la vie.
- scarface74 8y agoIt might have been a big hint when they dropped “Computer” from their name. But more importantly, Apple has always been a personal computer company. Not an enterprise computer company. What’s more personal than a phone running a real computer operating system in your pocket? More people (ie the “personal”) buy iPhones + iPads in one year than Apple has sold traditional computers in the last decade. If not, the numbers should be close.
- baldfat 8y agoIn the early 2000s they made a HUGE push for enterprise. My company I worked at Part Time went all in. It was a disaster for 3 months. The IT department didn't make the decision but the Executive Board. Just this summer, I now work at another company, and they went 100% Apple (Because students were issued iPads so why not switch everyone over of course). They ended up throwing away all their 1 to 3 year old Mac All in Ones, in all the computer labs, into the garbage (At Apple's Request Around 400 of them) and now students don't have access to a computer and only issued a tablet. So adults have Mac Laptops and kids have iPads (K-12) seems so strange. I think that this is where Apple would love to put Enterprise with everyone without a special case just uses iPads.
- scarface74 8y agoIt’s a happy accident that bring your own device bought Apple into the enterprise and now they are able to leverage that and do partnership deals with the likes of IBM and SAP (?)
- saagarjha 8y ago> They ended up throwing away all their 1 to 3 year old Mac All in Ones, in all the computer labs, into the garbage (At Apple's Request Around 400 of them) and now students don't have access to a computer and only issued a tablet. Why? What issue did they run into?
- baldfat 8y agoNo issues. The lease was up and Apple doesn't like to flood the market with used gear? That would cut into their profits?
- saagarjha 8y agoNo, I don’t see why you had to get rid of them. Did they not work for you?
- baldfat 8y agoThey were in perfectly good working order. I really think this is just Apple's practice. Apple All In One users really don't need the latest and I bet they are just seeing this as something that would cut into their profits.
- saagarjha 8y agoWait, so Apple forced them to stop using the computers they had bought?
- pjmlp 8y agoI guess that was US specific. In Portugal they were hardly seen anywhere beyond a couple of digital agencies and some departments of a couple of well funded universities. And Interlog, a local re-seller with offices in Lisbon and Porto, was the only gate to Apple's kingdom.
- dylan604 8y ago> They are a phone company today I know that you're underscoring that the iPhone is their primary product. However, even though "phone" is in its name and was it's primarily replaced device, the iPhone to me has long since passed being a phone. Comparing time spent on device to the amount of minutes used as a phone, the "dialer" app is one of the least used apps on my phone. Essentially, it's a computer that fits in a pocket to the point we've been seeing designs to power a laptop by sliding a smartphone into a laptop style chassis (maybe not from Apple).