What “IT places” are you going to where they’re primarily Apple computers?
I get that if you go to a ReactJS conference or Hackathon that you’ll see Macbooks. Dev preference, fanboyism, whatever. But in the enterprise I don’t see that happening.
I just recently graduated and spent 10 years in college off and on, everything on campus labs or libraries was Linux or Windows. Some students had an Apple computer, and a couple of professors. I’ve worked in corporate IT, worked for managed service providers, and have done development for HRIS at two different companies over the last 8 years. With the exception of a handful, less than 1% of the employees at my corporate IT gig, and two companies I serviced at the MSP, it was overwhelmingly Windows, with some Cisco, pfSense, and Linux thrown in the mix.
I realize this is turning into a my anecdote is better than your anecdote pissing match, but have you guys supported Apple computers in an enterprise IT environment? Good f*cking luck. LDAP always shits itself, the keychain is constantly demanding to be setup, and then tries to override the domain account, printers and their drivers are a nightmare even with a print server, and then, THEN, MOVING DESKS AND OFFICES. Oh my fucking God moving an iMac across the hall and it doesn’t power on. PRAM reset, the other reset where you hold every key on the keyboard, reseated the RAM, etc. – Call Apple support and they say it’s some built in mechanism to deter theft, read on the forums and THERE ARE CASES OF THIS SHIT HAPPENING. The answer is leave it off for three days wtf. A day later we try again and it powers on. Talk all the shit you want about Windows and “”“MoneySoft M$$$$$$$$$$ l337"”", but they never pulled that shit. I got management up my dick because the lazy piece of shit wasn’t working all week but decides to blame me for this one incident because they can’t meet a God damn deadline.
Look, all I’m saying is, if they pull that Apple trigger, they gon regret it. Hard.
@Tjj226_Angel People just outright hate Windows 10, people just outright hated Windows 8.1, people just outright hated Windows 8, people just outright hated 7, people just outright hated Vista, people just outright hated XP. That’s how it goes. Everyone shits on Microsoft because it’s easy and it’s the cool thing to do. Mac’s have telemetry, hell, so does Linux! But you’ll never catch a fraction of the shit for using one of those systems than with using Windows. It’s a tool, and it’s very useful. Use it for what it is, or don’t.
Personally, I think Windows 10 is their best OS to date. Cry about spyware or other hyperbole nonsense, that’s fine. Even Zed Shaw has come around to using it. From what I can tell, most people on this forum use it. If you turn off the features you don’t want, yeah, sometimes they turn back on after a major update. Again, this happens constantly with OS X and iOS devices, but they get a free pass because they added a display port and called it “The D Port” threw a revolutionary label on it and got showered with praise. Meanwhile, Microsoft is actually researching cutting edge physics and developing tech based on that research, they’ve deployed “cloud” infrastructure that allows 3D rendering to be done on a remote server, and – oh, wait, we don’t talk about that because they collect hardware data. Oh well… Hey, you see this new API Apple has at their conference? It’s a new, new, NEW javascript framework that you can put in your blog about being anti-establishment.
