“Looking back, 2006 has been a great year for Apple. Wall Street continues to be enamored with all things Apple, the company’s laptop market share is up to 10%, and the media distribution business has changed forever — with iTV arriving after the first of the year,” Yuval Kossovsky writes for Computerworld. “Will Apple also partner with a mobile virtual network operator, or buy a cell carrier outright for the final push in its effort to broaden its reach?”
Kossovsky writes, “I could go on about touch-screen video iPods, market share, new models, the completion of the Intel transition, the rumored cell phones and more. The only prediction I will make is my annual prognostication, which is that iChatAV will break out to more mainstream use this coming year, and that Apple will embed it in a 3G cell phone. IChatAV (or, as I see it, iSpeakwalkandtalk) will be the killer app for mobile operators seeking to increase average revenues per user via data services.”
Kossovsky writes, “Having gotten that bit of speculation out of the way, I want to focus on something concrete. I think the biggest news for Apple in 2007 will be Microsoft Vista. Really. More to the point, in managing the risk of migration to Vista, I think the argument can be made that migrating to Mac OS X as a primary operating system is a good risk management strategy.”
“In migrating to Mac OS X and Apple hardware, a company can save on training costs and mitigate the risks involved in moving to Vista by eliminating the necessity of an all-or-nothing migration. An option like that should give any CIO, CTO, CFO or CEO something to seriously consider,” Kossovsky writes. “And that’s how I see 2007 shaping up for Apple’s place in the enterprise.”
Full article here.
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Boot Camp: Apple’s Trojan horse into the enterprise market? – April 05, 2006
Our company is 100% Mac.
No Pc´s allowed.
One Guy From Finland: Excellent, glad to hear it.
Ours is too.
Well I have linux boxes at the data centres but we use Macs for all the hands on work.
One day I will be replacing my linux boxes with X-serves.
It’s a great time for Apple and by the looks of it a shite one for M$.
Our company too, 100% proud to be Microsoft free
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So is my business.. 100% Mac – all 3!
I think this article must be dedicated to the poster that posted this yesterday:
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Don’t pass the koolaid Dec 20, 06 – 12:43 pm
Busting: Apple’s done a fine job of convincing so called artistic people that OSX is the platform of choice. Why can’t it convince the business majority of it’s superiority? Answer: because it isn’t.
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You have to laugh!
MW is ‘social’ as in Zune, going going gone…
HILARIOUS!
That’s great, One guy from Finland! Which company is that? SEVP
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Do you guys really think that most people that use PC uses Windows. Some people probably dont use windows at all. They probably use Linux like Ubuntu distro. And Pc dont mean that you must use Windows by Microsoft. Bye
SAP Corporation is starting to incorporate Macs too.
jatt,
I can’t tell what country you are from by your grammar, but yes, most people use windows. Windows has a 90%+ market share in all sectors. Just google windows market share and you’ll see.
I know it has 85% market share. But that dont mean you must use Windows. Its a choice of people. Bye
Hey, Jatt:
If you think that the majority of PC users are not using Windows, you’re kidding yourself. Sure, there are some Linux users, but I’m sorry to say that their numbers are dwarfed by the Windows users.
Wish it weren’t so…
What will happen to the real world when Macs take over?
Chiming in with the folks up above – no windows here – all Mac – about to install Xserve with RAID array. Asset management software. Mac went through some weird years but I think they are over – they have direction and they have better built machines (since 1984 I have had 1 Mac out of more than 100 fail onme). We just give ours to schools and such when we upgrade. They don’t wear out.
“What will happen to the real world when Macs take over?”
Nothing will happen to the real world. People will get used to it the Mac platform.
“What will happen to the real world when Macs take over?”
They will wake up from their Windoze-induced coma, promptly be flushed down a tube into a pool or water, and then get picked up by Steve “Morpheus” Jobs in the Nebekaneezer.
Just a hunch, but I’m betting that the iTV device will be marketed as Front Row and will prove to be a big deal. The Front Row device will essentially be to your living room what the iPod is to you when you are out and about- the enabling technology for your Video, Music, Photos, etc. The fact that it, like the iPod is platform agnostic will also be a big deal.
What some are missing is that, just like the iPod, it won’t be the first- just the first one that delivers on the promise
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yes we think most people that have PC’s use windows 😀
(u can run linux on a mac too by the way, but i don’t see why)
Our ERP is SAP running on Macs.
Work nicely.
Glad M$ was prevented from buying/merging with SAP a couple of years ago.
What will happen when Macs take over?? It will elevate the public’s expectations about what computing should be. All new competitors will have to deliver a comprable or better experience. I hope one day that applications become completely platform neutral. So if a new OS comes along that is more functional and elegant than OS X you can take your apps with you. It would make sense for software application comapanies. It would also foster more competition from OS makers and possibly better UIs. In a decade or less Microsoft will have to go to the drawing board if they want to stay in the OS game. Apple I doubt will ever take the kind of share Microsoft enjoys. I’d venture 25-40%. Enough to make everyone take notice. EVERYONE.
You don’t have to have majority market share in order to call the shots.
Let’s found out how enamored wall street is when the ipod market soon becomes saturated and no one else switches to a Mac. Short, NOW.
Macaday: yeah, you and 11 other businesses in the USA are ‘Windows Free’-hooray for you, you’re a rebel. What’s changed in the big picture that’s going to bring on this massive switch among big business that’s going to create more market share for Apple? The fact that Vista is ‘late’? Hardly.
I suggest people move to Linux or Mac Os X Tiger. If they cant handle Windows XP with security issues with malware like spyware. I dont see why its hard for people to use Ad-aware free version and its Best spyware remover and use AVG or Avast 4(FREE) versions to remove viruses. Which is better then Junk Norton. They just take there riddled spyware pc to store to tech to remove spyware for them. Which cost them $50 to $120 for removal of viruses and spyware. I feel sorry for these people who cant secure windows by themselves by having firewall on and anti-virus on. Bye
We still have people here calling our new Xserve/XSAN (12TB) “controversial” because all the nutless IT sacks at the top keep putting in Wintel shite that doesn’t work worth a damn.
It’s so hard being the Mac Guy in a place like this – and the sad part is that we’re an entertainment company.
Viva la Apple.
Bye bye beleaguered MicroShaft…
MDN: “ones” as in we’re the ones who are smart. Buy/use AAPL
SAP is without a shadow of a doubt – the worst piece of software I’ve EVER had the misfortune to be forced to work with. My firm is an advertising agency, and Macs are exclusively used in all our creative centres here in NYC. However, we’ve been forced by our holding company to use SAP for all our billing.
SAP claimed its GUI interface would work with Macs… believe me, it’s the worst. My guess? It was written around 1996 and the interface has NOT been updated since. It was simply ported to OS X with no changes! Unbelievable. Windows don’t scale, or scroll, there’s no simple ‘save’ command – it forces you to log out and log in again, if you take too long filling out your time/billing, it arbitrarily shuts you out with a simple ‘ time exceeded’ window and bam, it quits.
SAP is typical PC software. People in one of our sister agencies are actually leaving the company rather than work with this POS software, really. One Art Director commented, “I didn’t go to Art School to become an accountant”.
If you have a choice avoid it like Avian Bird Flu.
Koolaid/Peterson/Macdude just cracks me up. He’s like the cheesy timex watch commercial. “takes a licking and keeps on ticking”
Oh… 100% mac in my business also. Completed the switch this past year, problem free. It was bootcamp that convinced the powers on high to do it.