Posted on 10/19/2015 8:00:58 PM PDT by Swordmaker
You can’t blame them I suppose. They don’t really know any better, but the latest IBM report is attracting attention because, well, it pretty much tells any open-minded person that Macs are a better deal, even in the enterprise.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone who has been watching the digital transformation of the workplace over the last few years. That’s a period in which computers have evolved from being beige boxes on your desk to becoming solutions you carry in your pocket, wear on your wrist or access through the cloud.
Not only is technology changing, but workplace habits are being revised – BYOD is becoming W.O.R.K. 24/7 (not great for work/life balance) and those old legacy silo approaches to interdepartmental management function are becoming hard to justify in any connected enterprise. That’s just the way it is.
“Make it complicated, please,” may once have been the mantra for enterprise developers attempting to create needlessly complex business processing systems for use by employees.
That was then and this is now; today’s millennials don’t want to waste time using non-intuitive solutions, even if you are paying them to do so. They’ll just steal your business ideas, develop better systems, leave your firm and put you out of a job.. . .
. . . “Mac users need less IT support”, according to IBM, which is currently deploying 1,900 Macs per week. The difference in IT support needs is stark – just 5% of employees using Macs need help from IBM’s tech support helpline in contrast to 40% (eight times as many) of the employees using PCs. It means IBM has just 24 help desk staff to support around 130,000 Macs and iOS devices internally.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
You didn’t try hard enough -
Steady Windows use develops an “unparalleled skill set” for: IT Security vulnerability & threat assessment, patch management, and ultimately leads to Mac conversion evangelical zeal!
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!
Too bad there are so many existing business applications that cannot be properly accessed via Mac.
You can. Run a VM with Windows of any version or several, in a sandbox on the Mac. . . Problem solved.
The ONLY reason IBM is able to make this transition is because they have invested 100's of millions in virtualizing all the applications in their datacenters.
And, THEN they had to invest millions more in VDI and increased speeds in their networks.
Not to mention millions in additional storage.
Tehn they run that cute little VDI client on the end-user Mac that provides access to all those Windows applications, that still look and act JUST like the application did before this major infrastructure overhaul.
Still, it's an overhaul that every IT organization will undertake eventually. And once they do, it will not matter what the client is...to include dumb terminals.
That Security by Obscurity canard has been shot down so many times it is ridiculous. There have been Windows worms and viruses written to exploit computer populations with fewer than 20,000 vulnerable machines and they were ALL infected within 30 minutes of the virus/worm being released into the wild. In fact, in the past, one was written to exploit a vulnerable population of fewer than 125. If your Security by Obscurity claim were true, no one would have written those exploits.
There are now over 100 million Macs in the wild, with 99% of them running completely bare naked of any anti-virus protection and yet there are STILL zero viable viruses/worms in the wild after 17 years of OS X actually being in the wild itself. Yet, no one has succeeded in writing a successful computer virus/worm for the OS X system.
There is a legitimate reason why Apple Macs are far more secure than Windows. In addition, there are only 58 known Trojans in eight families for the Mac, and every one of them is known to the OS which will warn the user if he or she tries to download, install, or run any of them and require and administrator's name and password to continue with any of those steps. It takes INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH STUPID to continue and be infected on a Mac with any one of them.
There are more than enough Macs in the wild to attract hackers and miscreants to hack into them, but they still have not. These data on user IT call center use is from LAST WEEK. . . and they are from a very reliable source, IBM, who is reporting on REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE, not from some fly-by-night Mac fanboy.
The fact is, ransom note, that Macs can run far MORE software than any Windows computer can . . . because they are true UNIX™ computers capable of true multi-user multi-virtual machine environments. I have access to the entire libraries of everyone of those operating systems. I also have Virtual Machine instances available to me of THEOS, MS-DOS, Amiga-OS, the original Apple MacOS 9.2, and emulations of the C=64 and C=128, and Atari lines, which I can load in, should I have need of them. . . and access to all of their libraries of software.
Your conclusions are erroneous. . . because it is false to the reality that already exists. . . and the people at IBM know this.
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.
Spewing a ton of fanboy nonsense
Unix does not make anything secure
I have supported a mix environment of Windows and OSX machines and the “overeducated idiot” can manage to destroy either one.
Macs are nice, but dude, you are just cut and pasting the same Mac vs PC flame war nonsense I see posted all over the web, give it up already, nobody cares anymore
That tells me everything I need to know about your level of knowledge. You believe that IBM doesn't know what it is doing? Right. Sure.
Probably knows how to spell "you're", however.
IBM invented “Micro Channel” and the PS/2 Computer, the biggest flops in computing history.
IBM is basically a consulting company at this point. And will say anything to stir up business. Today they are pushing Macs, Tomorrow Linux, next week Windows, Two months from now whatever, just to keep enterprises upgrading and buying IBM services, which, BTW are not cheap.
Liberals attack by using “your level of knowledge” as a way to dismiss someone they do not agree with.
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.
That kind of crap is just basic information processing. It doesn't need a Mac or a PC. All it needs is Linux plus Python or Go or Rust and PostgreSQL or MySQL. It just needs to deliver its results via a web application accessible from Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, tablets, smart phones, wrist watches, and funny glasses.
lol
Hmmmm. IBM's Market Cap as of closing today is $143.7 Billion . . . that's some consulting company, NJLiberalDestroyer. I suspect you really don't know what you are talking about. Yes, they do consulting, but they are also a technology company. Specifically, IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
I misspelled their tonight. I used They’re like i thought i knew what i was doin’.
And i was 2nd place in my 5th grade spelling bee in Albuquerque.
Life is a series of funny thangs.
I like MACs - it’s just that this article misrepresented reality.
No in fact it didn't. Corporations don't move any quicker than do obese government agencies, and they waste money just like any other group.
Go to any reseller and see what a five year old Mac sells for and then compare five year old PC prices.
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