Guys... don’t shoot the damn messenger here. You’re obviously either Apple fanboys or Apple engineers. I am neither. I work in the finance industry now and they use Apples quite a bit. In the example I provided, the vendor was GE, the product was for PACS imaging (high-resolution radiology). If you have a problem with their practices, feel free to voice your concerns to them, but I guarantee that it’ll fall on deaf ears.
Fact is that the healthcare industry is a massive consumer of electronics and high tech equipment, and trying to get them to switch to Apple would be like trying to talk my dachshund out of her food bowl: it just won’t happen. HP ProLiant-class rackmount servers are going to provide much higher ROI due to the flexibility of the platform. As an engineer, I can make myriad changes to the functional architecture of the system on my own, without an HP engineer. Apple products require that you have one of their people do the work. I know, because I spec’d their platforms in the past.
Again, you’re barking at the wrong person here. I’m tech agnostic, prefer Linux for my OS and use it quite extensively at home and at work. I just happen to know an extensive amount of minutiae about Microsoft’s platforms due to decades in the industry and am employed to provide engineering support for that.
I’m not anti-Apple. I just said I would never be able to fiscally justify spending the funds that they ask for one of their machines when I could build an architecturally superior system with Windows OS for the same price (i.e. liquid cooling).