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Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup
An anonymous reader writes "America's new CIO Steven VanRoekel wants to revamp the federal government and make it as agile as a startup. But first he has to get rid of bugs like the Department of Agriculture's 21 different e-mail systems. From the article: '“Too often, we have built closed, monolithic projects that are outdated or no longer needed by the time they launch,” he said. As an example, he mentioned the Defense Department’s human resources management system. Dubbed the “Defense Integrated Military Human Resource System,” the project was meant to take seven years to develop. Instead, it took 10, cost $850 million and had to be scrapped after 10 years of development in 2010 because it ended up being useless.'"
Apple doesn't make "simple" tools. They make locked in proprietary unintuitive un-interoperable "solutions" which are wrapped in gobs of marketing so that they stick in peoples brains. That they are simpler to use is purely a marketing invention. There is a learning curve which is the same as any other OS.
These poorly designed tools, manufactured in china by the lowest bidder will barely last their projected 1-3 year lifetimes. Apple then forces you to buy their crap hardware with little to no other options. Enforced with litigation as a defence for anyone who dares to try and make a hackintosh, or other hack to use decent hardware in them. On top of all that, you are paying a premium for all this!
A good tool is versatile, durable and dependable. Apple meets NONE of these requirements. You are locked in, on crap quality hardware with forced upgrades and cant even be guaranteed your software from 5 years ago will run on current machines.
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy