One of a thousand posts with some 10.2 info….

[Shawn Miller]

[Scott Witthaus] “[TImothy Auld] “Did you find out that Apple has no more than 8% penetration in the enterprise world? ”

We are veering wildly OT here! 🙂

Here is another quote from you: ” And Apple does have a monumentally bad reputation in the business world. ”
You changed from reputation to marketshare. Which one is it? Marketshare and reputation are two different things. One is qualitative, the other quantitative. My sources are simply observation, I admit. But there are a few articles out there to support it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-ipad-totally-changed-the-world-in-ju...

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/technology/21tablet.html?_r=0

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-latest-ipads-why-business-use-will-ulti...

Anyway, apologies in veering OT.”

Yeah, those were great attention getting headlines two years ago. Since then however, PC sales have stabilized while tablet sales have slowed. BYOD has undoubtedly brought more iPads into the enterprise, but they really haven’t (as predicted) become the device of choice for the mobile worker. I know a few large enterprise businesses in town where, people can choose between devices (Mac or PC, tablet or notebook)… most are choosing Windows 8 on a notebook. Where you might see iPads deployed in a real business environment, are as part of some kind of “solution”, like a point of sale application, or as part of a customer relationship management system, but you’re just as likely (if not more) to see Windows devices in those same scenarios.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Brett Sherman] “The real stranglehold is IT departments trying to make life easy for themselves, if it were based on efficiency and the desire of the actual workers there would be a different reality.”

Well… to be fair. IT is a difficult, expensive, mission critical, thankless job that the average worker doesn’t understand. Have you actually asked the people responsible for deploying and maintaining your systems why it’s such a big deal to support Macs in the fleet? I know some companies support heterogeneous computing environments really well, others just don’t have the bandwidth or expertise. Maybe your IT department has legitimate reasons for trying to keep their users on as few platforms as possible.

Shawn

[Timothy Auld]

Wildly off topic or not, yes, your sources are only observation. Mine are quite easily looked up on many trusted sources. 8% is the long view of Apple’s foray into the business world. Not a single one of the links you included in your last post dispute that in any way. Stop the professorial BS and admit that Apple has no more than 8% Enterprise use anywhere in the world. Everyone, except you, seems to know this.

Tim