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idky Apple doesn't just take over the office, interface their software and devices with Exchange and Office365 and Active-Directory more cleanly and more stably
by Maursault 4y ago
idky Apple doesn't just take over the office, interface their software and devices with Exchange and Office365 and Active-Directory more cleanly and more stably than Microsoft can. Apple should have an application on iDevices that provides office word processing, office mail, office spreadsheet, office telephony, all the office apps in one app that looks like a desktop, such that with BT keyboard and smallish 1080p monitor (actually I'd prefer 1024x768) would replace all the non-power users', non-developer desktops (secretaries, customer support, VPs, etc.), save offices a bundle of money on hardware, and beat Microsoft at it's own game without killing Microsoft's Office environment, yet. Then when Apple Office becomes ubiquitous because it's so much cheaper and so much better than Microsoft, replace Microsoft's backend Exchange servers with Apple appliance hardware that doesn't need any administration other than adding and deleting users/groups, etc., and a plugin replacement for Office365 (am I the only one that thinks this is a clunky monstrosity?) back at Apple data centers, and not quite cut out all Microsoft with Apple alternatives that just work better, but allow any Poindexters to continue to run Windows and MS Office Suite and still integrate seamlessly. Active Directory is probably the best thing Microsoft ever did, got it the most right of all endeavors. It could still be a lot better and a lot simpler. It's just LDAP.
But Apple still walks around Microsoft like they'e stepping on egg shells, and for the life of me I can't figure why.
- KerrAvon 4y agoThe industrial designers in charge of the product agenda do not have any interest in boring enterprise software and would do a shit job of it. It's really that simple.
- swatcoder 4y agoApple makes zillions of dollars a year, on absurd margins, making products that others struggle to match, while occasionally breaking open whole new markets for others to follow them into. Why would they want to futz around with commodity enterprise stuff and big, concentrated clients that hold enough leverage to push them around? You can’t be Apple and IBM at the same time.
- derefr 4y ago> Apple should have an application on iDevices that provides office word processing, office mail, office spreadsheet, office telephony, all the office apps in one app that looks like a desktop, such that with BT keyboard and smallish 1080p monitor (actually I'd prefer 1024x768) would replace all the non-power users', non-developer desktops (secretaries, customer support, VPs, etc.), save offices a bundle of money on hardware, and beat Microsoft at it's own game without killing Microsoft's Office environment, yet. That app exists: it's called a Desktop-as-a-Service, e.g. AWS WorkSpaces, Azure Virtual Desktop, whatever Citrix has been offering for decades now, etc. And you can certainly use all of those DaaS apps, on an iPad, with a Bluetooth keyboard. In the "Productivity" category of the App Store, you'll find all the cloud companies with DaaS offerings all heavily advertising and competing over business customers with exactly that user-story. But if an org is optimizing for IT OpEx by issuing employees DaaS thin-client hardware, then it'd be cheaper still to just issue them Chromebooks. Keyboard's built in!
- m463 4y agoI think it is tradition. And by that I mean Steve Jobs traditionally avoided enterprise software, and games.