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Re: OT The platform wars are over... [message #99712 is a reply to message #99709] Mon, 28 July 2008 09:19 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote:
>
>Ah, the plight of the brutally oppressed Mac user. I was working at a university
>in the mid-90's when we gently suggested that, since there were very serious
>questions as to whether Apple could continue as a going concern, it might
>be a good idea for Mac-centric departments at least diversify their platform
>choices. Just hedge a bit, with either *nix or Windows machines. For giving
>this excellent advice (still a good idea today) we were treated as platform
>nazis out to 'get their Macs.' Keep in mind at that point I was still writing
>a column for xlr8yourmac, not exactly a platform hater.
>

You didn't know what you were talking about then, and when it comes to Macs
you still don't.

>IT departments are charged with a different mission that home users. To
this
>day where I work I don't tell people what computers, operating systems,
and
>applications they can or can't use. It's not my job, or my place to tell
>them that, what I CAN tell them is what I can promise them I will support.
>I tell them that if they're running a laptop I set up with an operating
system
>I know if it breaks I'll fix it. If they want to use Mail on a OS X or check
>IRC using emacs on a minix machine, more power to them, but I can't say
for
>sure that I can fix things if they break.

The problem is you don't know how to fix a Mac and you don't want to know.
IT guys just want to stay in their F'ed up MS world, after all, that's where
the IT work is at. Feature wise, Macs are getting even better than they
were in the past, unfortunately, what's under the hood is getting easier
to break/hack. However, there is still no comparison between a Mac and a
PC when it comes to hassle factor and problems. That's why Mac guys are
willing to pay more for a Mac, why Pay some IT guy to fix what shouldn't
be broke, it always costs more. Don't worry, if Mac stay on the path to
become more like PCs, you may be needed after all.
The problem is you don't know how to fix a Mac and you don't want to know.
IT guys just want to stay in their F'ed up MS world, after all, that's where
the IT work is at. Feature wise, Macs are getting even better than they
were in the past, unfortunately, what's under the hood is getting easier
to break/hack. However, there is still no comparison between a Mac and a
PC when it comes to hassle factor and problems. That's why Mac guys are
willing to pay more for a Mac, why Pay some IT guy to fix what shouldn't
be broke. Paying the IT guy always costs more.

Don't worry, if Mac stay on the path to become more like PCs, you may be
needed after all.

>
>But anyway, you're right, we're all out to 'ban' your Macs.

Ignorance is blissful! I guess it's easier to ban what your afraid of than
to face the truth.
>
>TCB
>
>"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>>
>>In the early 1990's at the univ. I worked at, the IT guys tried to
>>ban macs. If they found one in your dept. they would ridicule you
>>and tried to enforce a "no mac" campus standard. They would talk about
>>market share and comparisons to VHS vs. Betamax were tossed about
>>freely.
>>
>>In the mid 1990's, my wife's dept head actually banned macs from the dept.
>>
>>Both the IT director and my wife's dept. head got canned, thankfully,
>>but more importantly, let me be the first to declare the platform wars
>>over.
>>
>>Apple is now #3
>>
>> http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Claws+Its+Way+Closer+to+the+T op+in+Retail+PC+Sales/article12409.htm
>>
>>Who'da thunk?
>>
>>So, let me say to all the geek doomsayers and PC nazis
>>
>>Bite Me. You were wrong all along. Get a life.
>>
>>Apple has developed into the BMW of comp. companies. My new
>>8-core could not be more elegantly designed and built. Putting in
>>more RAM was like working on a beautiful sports car and Leopard makes
>>both Vista and XP look like bathroom grafitti in comparison.
>>
>>Cheap? No, but worth it, and there really is no competition if you care
>>about the things it offers.
>>
>>Oh, and a guy from Apple spent hours with me sorting out my ethernet
>>troubles.
>>
>>Nothing against PC's, but the platform wars are over. You pays yer
>>nickel and takes yer choice.
>>
>>DC
>>
>>oh and with VM Fusion, I can put XP over here and Leopard over there
>>on the same machine and the same monitor. Or on mon. 2 of an extended
>>desktop.
>

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