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Apple's chance to grow as half a billion Windows 7 PCs hit EOL:
The company's enterprise credentials continue to extend. At a recent Apple-focused enterprise IT event, we encountered opinion and statistics to reinforce this point.
The point being that support for Apple technologies has become a human resources issue, and that people entering the workshop will choose to use that company's technologies if they can.
This is prompting some of the world's most influential enterprise firms to offer that choice to their employees.
Beyond HR considerations, IBM CIO Fletcher Previn points out multiple advantages Cupertino's computers offer, not least in terms of net promoter score, user experience and the actual costs of management, upgrade and support.
[...] The positive upswell in support for Apple's systems comes as around 417,000,000 Windows 7 devices (a big chunk of all Windows PCs currently in use worldwide) are about to experience Microsoft terminating support on January 14, 2020.
It's a relatively safe assumption to think that at least some tens of thousands of these PCs could now be replaced by an iPad, or even a Mac.
Why wouldn't some of these migrate to Apple's platforms, when Microsoft's fee-based extended support package costs up to $200 per device?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stretch611 on Sunday January 12 2020, @05:42AM (5 children)
As much as I agree with you and your sentiment...
Corporations love everything being locked down so that users can only do what they allow. While a minus in my humble opinion, this makes corporate management drool.
The only thing that would give corporations pause is the super high cost to buy apple hardware... Yet, I expect that this is only a problem for small to medium businesses on a tight budget; for larger corporations the money is a drop in the bucket especially if they can get lower support costs.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday January 12 2020, @08:05AM
You can lock down the users on Linux too. The difference is that the administrator on Linux has full control.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 12 2020, @08:39PM (3 children)
"super high cost"? Mercedes vs Kia is super high cost. A machine that maybe costs $500 over a competitor is a piddling amount to pay for usability, especially when a corporate slave will use it the next five years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 12 2020, @09:54PM (2 children)
For large corporation, scale that by a few thousand users... umm no it is not insignificant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 12 2020, @10:29PM (1 child)
Yes it is. Compared to the cost of maintaining an employee (user), $500 per user over 5 years is a drop in the bucket.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday January 13 2020, @11:03PM
And for a company with 1,000 users you are then speaking of an immediate outlay of $500,000 that you will amortize over 5 years. No, that's not a drop in the bucket even for a 1,000 employee company. $1,000,000 versus $1,500,000 is quite an increase.
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