Apple Macs require less IT support in business than do PCs
That's why IT departments do not want them!
Macs threaten their jobs!
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If corporations understood that Macs were really that much cheaper than PCs, they'd fire their IT support staff. buy Macs and pocket massive savings.
And yet they don't.
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Where I worked, each employee got a what was essentially a dumb terminal that provided a virtual Windows environment on a central server. The processes were shared, so only as many instances of Windows were created as happened to be logged on. You were assigned a certain amount of disk space on central storage.
Naturally, you were not allowed to install or change any software, or remove any data. It was very secure. You could log on from home and get the same virtual desktop remotely in your browser.
Uppity Apple article which taunts us Windows Enterprise users.
Look, the Microsoft Windows suite of products has created a highly skilled resilient community of tech workers and users.
We are productive in spite of the platform and tools we work with.
Sure, Apple users have more time to be creative and productive on their Macs.
However, we Windows users know way more about virus recovery, system rebuilds, constant vulnerability management, near-undetectable data exfiltration and the thrills of data breach incident response!
Well-when I bought my first computer in 1987, I could choose between spending $6k (Mac) and $2K (PC) for similar functionality. Buying that PC meant I could choose from a wider array of software programs - MAC locked in licensing so if APPLE doesn’t approve of the program, you won’t be able to buy it. The elephant in the room - fewer MAC viruses because MACS are a smaller population. If tomorrow, MACS were everywhere and PC’s were a small portion - then MACS would have more IT support calls and businesses would have to pick from much smaller libraries of applications - sometimes not finding an equivalent in MAC land. I like MACs - it’s just that this article misrepresented reality.
Mac runs on Unix
It also supposes that users can shift from one platform to another without training.
NEITHER of the suppositions are true.
I used to look at huge tables of numbers and complex charts with dozens of curves on my large screen desktop, but now that I'm using my iPhone I can't really analyze any of that stuff.
So I just make a WAG and generate a couple of pie charts and I'm good to go!
Whenever my wife asks me why her Ipad or Iphone is not doing what it is supposed to do or a given Website is not letting her interact with it, I can't help her at all. All I can say is that it is an Apple product.
Most of the reason why manufacturing and some other businesses use ms products is that most major ERP providers don’t have mac versions. Makes no sense to buy users macs in that situation no matter how troublefree they supposedly are.
Sounds like the definition of SAP
While that may be true, it's the integration with other software/platforms in the enterprise that is giving some acid reflux.