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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: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday January 12 2020, @04:24PM
So much truth is out that should be used to make better decisions, so many insights about privacy, and what the internet is, and it has come out rapidly over the last 3 years. Affecting both microsoft and apple, and both having a lot to do with foreign companies, spyware, spy agencies, spy companies, backdoors, cracks, weaponized planted zero days.
The entire premise of this article is that this is a supply/demand and marketing proposition, 'how can apple convince microsoft they are better at privacy or usability'. The game is already over, once a part of your company is directly associated with a spy agency, your privacy game is concluded in any meaningful sense. NSO group did that to apple. Azure is now Unit 8200.
Game Over. No Thank You for Playing Apple and Microsoft, your equipment not only spies on people in a constitutionally treacherous way, it sends it to foreign countries, and this is espionage, and so not only are you spying on yourself, you are enabling the spying on everyone in your vicinity, for a foreign country. How is that not treason?
How are you not a traitor to your country just for having this software in your house? No matter what country you are in? The cathedral for your software behemoth blob was moved to a different country under the cover of shadows(and trumpco tweets).
It is as if the sum total of privacy information available to people determining who to trust has changed exponentially in the last 3 years, and so the infomation and processes people developed for the preceding 10 years were made obsolete without them knowing. And people like me have zero chance of being heard at a rate meaningful enough to alter the reality of the situation, entire populations are being disenfranchised and enslaved and studied like lab rats, and they are like tldr. What was that about political rights being a requirement of liberty? Let the academics sort it out, netflix and chill here we go. Oh look kesha has new facepaint.
For most people affected it is like every few days on NPR on the way to work there is something about a data leak, and they hear some senators give a soundbite about what needs to be done, and some eff lawyer jumping up and down screaming for a 45 second soundbite, and then memory hole.
To operate technology, facts are important to your safety. Consider the boeing 737, the engineers are calling it a clown plane, but how many people are going to fly it? Probably almost all of them. They trust simply because CNN has never reported any crashes, yet, that they are still running with the herd. Their trust is entirely misplaced. People are going to have a bad time.
But it is the difference between a river where you have not seen a crocodile ever, and a river where you have defininitely seen one in there.
Those are two very different rivers, at least to the catcher in the rye.
https://archive.is/xPOYX [archive.is] gmail 2020 whaaa
https://archive.is/Eu1Z4 [archive.is] my best explanation for the danger of trumpco
https://archive.is/Rdbj9 [archive.is] (this one is kinda out of context(or is it) but i just made it and think its hilarious lol)
https://archive.is/2dt6H [archive.is] i have trouble with overton windows if you havent noticed...