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Completely true about apple vs msft. I'm not sure I agree about the furniture implication. Maybe practically nobody cares about furniture, but the suppliers do
by netsp 17y ago
Completely true about apple vs msft.
I'm not sure I agree about the furniture implication. Maybe practically nobody cares about furniture, but the suppliers do. If they sell 90% of all office furniture at a great margin, they are a successful company. Commodity implies close to perfect competitive markets. That is not the case here.
Anyway people buying servers care. They may not be cutting edge, but they care what they use.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoI'm not sure I agree about the furniture implication. Frankly, I'm not sure I agree either. But I decided to write it down anyway and see how it looked on the screen.
- TomDibble 17y agoGoing back to the original article, though, the point was that industries have "thought leader" consumer groups. I would never in my wildest dreams consider calling any IT department I've worked with a "thought leader". The "thought leader" groups for PC purchases appear to be leaning heavily towards Apple. Also, while most offices are wall-to-wall PCs, I know that new PCs at our office are budgeted in the $700-800 range for mid-range officefolk (a little but not much more for developers, a little less for simple clerical users). All such purchases this year fall well below the $1000 price point. FWIW, our developers do tend to buy Macs, and we also tend to get a Windows license for those machines. The Macs obviously cost more than $1000 per box, even with the minor discount we get from Apple.