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In 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
by baldfat 8y ago
In 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.