“RE: Macs have been rising fast since about 1984.
So, why are they not YET as ubiquitous in the office as Windows based computers?”
How about the cost of Macs versus good pcs. Last I heard was about 3 times the cost.
One of our younger relatives is a west coast VP of a company that is tech bound. He approved I phones and I pads and they could use the monthly corporate paid service.
When the Apple cult tried to force his company to buy Macs, he settled that problem quickly.
He told his Apple Cult members, the company would give the Mac dreamers the cost of a PC. Then, they had to personally come up with the difference in costs up front and program wise. They would own the Macs when replacement time came in a couple of years.
Guess how many Apple Cult members ponied up the difference two years latter?
Our relative is still waiting for the first one to pony up the difference.
Had a brand new of each at my job. So a fair comparison.
Mac beat the pc in hardware and software. But the mac’s HD died after 3 yrs. But it never locked up. The pc would lock up almost weekly.
If MS really wanted to trounce the competition they’d invest in building a formally verified OS, compiler[s], and a lot of their application software, too.
I’m betting the first company to make a formally-verified general-purpose consumer OS will have a tremendous opportunity to seize the market; the same with the first formally-verified fully-functional word-processor.
Lousy offer. Who’s gonna put up their own money for something when the business gets the best years of it?
And no control group: did the PC users get to take their machines home? Nope. Nobody wanted those after 2 years either.
Funny thing is: once Apple introduced the iPhone & iPad, businesses couldn’t stop people from buying their own mobile devices (at substantial personal cost, no assistance at all from business) and bringing them into the workplace for business use.
The price is the same for equivalent hardware. Period.
I would have taken that deal in a heartbeat.... I WOULD take that deal offered