Businesses will never use Apple computers at the same level as they use PCs. This is a fact.... unless Mac come down in cost (for the system and the software).
Maybe this analogy is more descriptive — the PC is like Fords original Model T to consumers. It was cheap to produce, widely available, and very cheap to purchase, maintain, and upgrade. Plus parts are readily available and best of all you can change the oil yourself. Heck you can even rebuild your transmission along the side of the road.
MAC computers are like the foreign sports car of the same vintage — expensive to purchase, expensive to maintain, and expensive to upgrade. You may have to change the oil less frequently but, when you do, the oil change is very expensive. Plus, there is the risk that you will not be able to purchase replacement parts in the near because of planned obsolescence.
The vintage sports car is not targeted at the average consumer but the fringe folks with extra cash.
Plus, it is the cheap PC that has made computers spread far and wide and just like Fords Model T, made the car a fixture in everyone’s garage; a PC is in everyone’s home, too.
Wow...wrong on so many counts!
Macs are not more expensive to maintain.
Macs have computers starting at $599, so I would hardly call them expensive.
I have 10 year old Macs that are still chugging along.
The two times I have had to repair a Mac, it was no more expensive than repairing a PC. Keep in mind that covers a ten year period and 6 iMacs, 2 Mac Pros, 4 Mac Minis, 3 Time Capsules, and 6 various Mac Laptops. Two repairs in ten years. One was covered as a “known issue” and the other was a failed HD which was replaced for about $200 (it was a 5 year old machine).
I spend 19 years being the IT person for my previous employer. 32 Workstations, 4 Servers, a custom data base application, all running under Windows. Not a day went by that I didn’t have some IT issue. Workstations lasted, on average, 3 to 4 years. Hard drives failed regularly. Viruses were a constant problem. The email system ALWAYS needed tweaking. Having to worry about multiple versions of Window working together. Yuck.
On our Mac-centric system I can concentrate on running my business, not my network.