Enterprise support is:
- Special releases of software
- Longer term support of hardware
- Longer term support of drivers
- Specially tested versions of patches and security hotfixes
- And lower per seat prices at that
All three do that job exceptionally well. Just because you think that support should be something that it is not, doesn't make it a joke.
That "one time" was a 60 day gap between first major shipments of the lower priced IPS panels and first non Apple branded products. Apple just beat everyone by a month to market, because they were ready for it.
You know that this discussion is about businesses? Riiiight?
And in business, it's not about how "integrated it is", it's about "How well it suits a businesses needs?" and "What the cost of it is?". And beyond PR, nobody cares about how much futuristic design it has.
1) Do you work at a big shop? Only VL reduces the costs, the licenses are still rather high. Over €200.
2) iMac panel is the exact same panel as in Dell U2711 @ €650. That's a €1000 difference, that is a PC build that will blow iMac away anyday.
PS: Why did you discount VAT from iMac, while Dell's monitor does not get that privilege?
For startups, hiring a lawyer to decipher Microsoft licensing is just too much. And your local Microsoft representative is really clueless when it comes to licensing. I should know, my office is right under the Microsoft HQ(small country, small office) and we have lunch together periodically.
Is it news to you, that a lot of CS departments are closer to Physics dept than Mathematics dept? Didn't your CS education include robotics? Electronics? There is a shitload of Mathematics in Physics and CS has to deal with the Physical component of systems, unlike Mathematics.
I would argue that programming is a subdomain of Mathematical Logic. On the other hand, given who were the first CS people, CS is essentially a field of physics.
I experience* exactly the opposite. Colleges and universities create a curriculum of high academic standards and simply fail to explain why. As a result, none of the students end up interested in their field because they weren't "hooked". The ones that were "hooked", were "hooked" somewhere else.
So in the end you get students that didn't get enough practical experience and sure weren't interested enough to go deeper into the academic part. And as a result, academia looses a lot of potential geniuses to transform the industry and businesses bitch about how those same people are not prepared to work in the field.
Basically universities are failing at CS all over the world, the fact that it's a global problem is seen widely in India. Because in India people don't really have a choice of career after graduating with BSc in CS.
* - I have lead summertime recruitment drives a.k.a programming and systems engineering contests
I believe that in a case of real national emergency in US, something cataclysmic, for the US gov't to continue to function the company they would save is IBM. I mean, they are so heavily entrenched in everything. If anything, IBM could be the predecessor of Umbrella Corporation.
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So basically, unless you're working with professional video or audio, you don't need FW in any incarnation.
Is that why Apple mandates Norton on company laptops? You are better off with Linux then.
And a lot of devs in my workplace are switching to Linux to do actual work. Just wanted to add to the anecdotal evidence.
I also work for a Fortune 20 company and I know that when the company size drops to less than 1000, Apple support starts to suck really bad.
Yet, last year Jobs on an earnings call stated that Apple is a consumer oriented company.
format c: still works...
Middle managers don't have that authority. It's small business owners that do that.
iOS development requires a Mac with OS X. Any other questions?
Enterprise support is:
- Special releases of software
- Longer term support of hardware
- Longer term support of drivers
- Specially tested versions of patches and security hotfixes
- And lower per seat prices at that
All three do that job exceptionally well. Just because you think that support should be something that it is not, doesn't make it a joke.
Powerbooks can't run Windows. There is no Windows for PPC.
Since Apple started making devices that are not user serviceable.
That "one time" was a 60 day gap between first major shipments of the lower priced IPS panels and first non Apple branded products. Apple just beat everyone by a month to market, because they were ready for it.
My 5 y/o T42 wishes you luck with spending a lot of money. And I'm a Java developer...
You know that this discussion is about businesses? Riiiight?
And in business, it's not about how "integrated it is", it's about "How well it suits a businesses needs?" and "What the cost of it is?". And beyond PR, nobody cares about how much futuristic design it has.
That kind of, voids the whole benefit replaceable parts, doesn't it? Fixing a Mac is as expensive as buying a new one, if at all possible.
Hm... That's a rich company throwing away computer in 2-3 years.
1) Do you work at a big shop? Only VL reduces the costs, the licenses are still rather high. Over €200.
2) iMac panel is the exact same panel as in Dell U2711 @ €650. That's a €1000 difference, that is a PC build that will blow iMac away anyday.
PS: Why did you discount VAT from iMac, while Dell's monitor does not get that privilege?
For startups, hiring a lawyer to decipher Microsoft licensing is just too much. And your local Microsoft representative is really clueless when it comes to licensing. I should know, my office is right under the Microsoft HQ(small country, small office) and we have lunch together periodically.
$10 per month? What are you smoking? Cheapest Amazon instance is something like $40(Not windows)
Well.... Technically speaking many Universities start with reteaching everyone everything from scratch. Probably mathematics is the only one spared.
Is it news to you, that a lot of CS departments are closer to Physics dept than Mathematics dept? Didn't your CS education include robotics? Electronics? There is a shitload of Mathematics in Physics and CS has to deal with the Physical component of systems, unlike Mathematics.
I would argue that programming is a subdomain of Mathematical Logic. On the other hand, given who were the first CS people, CS is essentially a field of physics.
I experience* exactly the opposite. Colleges and universities create a curriculum of high academic standards and simply fail to explain why. As a result, none of the students end up interested in their field because they weren't "hooked". The ones that were "hooked", were "hooked" somewhere else.
So in the end you get students that didn't get enough practical experience and sure weren't interested enough to go deeper into the academic part. And as a result, academia looses a lot of potential geniuses to transform the industry and businesses bitch about how those same people are not prepared to work in the field.
Basically universities are failing at CS all over the world, the fact that it's a global problem is seen widely in India. Because in India people don't really have a choice of career after graduating with BSc in CS.
* - I have lead summertime recruitment drives a.k.a programming and systems engineering contests
I believe that in a case of real national emergency in US, something cataclysmic, for the US gov't to continue to function the company they would save is IBM. I mean, they are so heavily entrenched in everything. If anything, IBM could be the predecessor of Umbrella Corporation.
No... Stock price is not money, it's perception.