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I've often heard it said that (nearly every time Apple in the Enterprise comes up) the conventional wisdom is that Apple doesn't experience larger gains in the
by VengefulCynic 15y ago
I've often heard it said that (nearly every time Apple in the Enterprise comes up) the conventional wisdom is that Apple doesn't experience larger gains in the enterprise because of the culture of secrecy whereby it doesn't give advance information to large corporate buyers any more than it does to the average consumer. It's something of a surprise to me that this wasn't mentioned in this article.
Doubly so because a number of the other vendors of Android devices (Samsung, Sony, LG, ASUS) have a much more favorable history on releasing information about upcoming products so that enterprise support can be ready for them. Also, a lack of that culture of secrecy would seem to be more favorable for sharing more technical information up-front for deeper integration with corporate partners. Whereas I don't get the impression that Apple really views any enterprise customer as a partner, but rather as another customer.
- alttag 15y agoConversely, Apples does have a history of long-term support for the products they do release, so in that sense, the future is extremely predicable ... more so than other players in the mobile space. The predictability of support is perhaps more valuable than the predictability of new shininess.
- cageface 15y agoThis is much more the case for Apple in mobile than in their other products. The churn from OS 9 -> X, PPC -> Intel, and multiple breaking changes to APIs etc over the same time period made supporting Macs at the "enterprise" level quite challenging.