Yeah, because I've never been woken up in the middle of the night, without a biscuit OR tea, and faced an 18 hour shift because I was "on call" and a salaried employee.
There's quite a few differences between the Apple of 1985, and the Apple of 2012.
#1 is that Steve Jobs spent a decade clearing out projects that were going nowhere, instead focusing the entire company on a handful of projects that all tied together in order to increase each one's value.
#2 is that Steve Jobs spent a decade clearing out the stiffs that were "managing" the place in the 90s, and installed people that had the same drive he did, and set the whole company up to focus on design and proper function, rather than shoveling out products for the sake of announcing products. There's no John Sculley running things today.
If you make products that people actually want, rather than continue gravy-training the success of the past, maybe you'll have a sustainable revenue stream.
No one was buying Apple server hardware except for very few niche markets, and Apple likes being a company that actually makes money on products. Strange, I know, but that's where it is. There were rare places where an Xserve made sense, and they were brilliant in those places, but the fact remains that you can run tens of thousands of Macs without having a single install of Mac OS X Server in your environment. This is something that should be celebrated, rather than used to deride. It's the opposite of vendor lock-in.
Re: iOS management tools - Because the world clearly needs even more MDM choices that all do exactly the same thing (what the APIs allow). AirWatch, Good, Motorola MSP, Altiris CMS, FileWave, JAMF, etc. aren't nearly enough. Apple publishes an MDM API (Just like Android, BTW), and lets MDM vendors fight it out for superiority (Just like Google, BTW). If you're a small business that doesn't want to pay for a full-blown MDM, you can get a Mac Mini server and turn on the profile manager service if you want an Apple-provided solution.
However, enterprise doesn't want an Apple-provided solution for MDM, because they want to manage ALL of their mobile devices from one console - BlackBerry, Android, iOS, WinMo (Yes, it's still out there), WP7, etc. The days of using 18 consoles for 18 different device platforms are over - the world has better tools now.
As someone who works with mobility products in Fortune-50 business, I can tell you that Apple cares quite deeply for the enterprise. They just have a starting point of a consumer device, but with every software release it adds more and more of what enterprise wants. They are asking, enterprise is answering, and Apple is changing their stuff to suit.
Any issue that has the ACLU, MoveOn, and the Tea Party Patriots shoulder to shoulder should definitely be paid attention to, and recognized as a universally bad idea.
If those three organizations can get together on it, surely the rest of us can too?
I'm wondering how many Sun / Oracle ZFS patents they are going to stomp on themselves. I doubt that Oracle will be any more willing to share certain patents with Microsoft, then Microsoft would share with Oracle.
Got it in one. MacOSForge had a working driver and filesystem version for ZFS on Snow Leopard. However, on the day before Snow Leopard shipped, it was yanked off the download repository, because Apple couldn't come to licensing terms with (then) Sun.
They had ZFS completely implemented on Mac OS X 10.6, and had to abort due to licensing. The package is still kicking around out there if you go looking, but I doubt anyone is maintaining it anymore. Too bad, too.
If you read the Steve Jobs biography, he's quoted as telling the President that the reason Apple doesn't manufacture in the US has nothing to do with labor costs. The reason is that they can't get the 30,000 manufacturing engineers necessary to support 700,000 factory workers because the education system is fucked. China has no problem producing the engineers necessary to keep such a factory going.
Jobs' two meetings with Obama in 2010 and 2011 are detailed in the new biography of the Apple leader by author Walter Isaacson.
The book recounts the first meeting occurred at a hotel at the San Francisco airport in the fall of 2010. Isaacson, relying on accounts from White House aides and Jobs himself, wrote that Jobs told Obama bluntly, "You're headed for a one-term presidency" and urged the Democratic president to be more business-friendly. Jobs told Obama how easy it was to build a factory in China, in contrast to the difficulties caused by regulations and extra costs in the United States.
Isaacson's book says Jobs offered to put together a group of CEOs for another meeting, which was held early this year.
Jobs, who died Oct. 5, 2011, was looking thin and frail because of his cancer but still managed to be passionate about the need for more engineers.
"When Jobs' turn came," Isaacson wrote, "he stressed the need for more trained engineers and suggested that any foreign students who earned an engineering degree in the United States should be given a visa to stay in the country."
The book says that "Jobs went on to urge that a way be found to train more American engineers. Apple had 700,000 factory workers employed in China, he said, and that was because it needed 30,000 engineers on-site to support those workers. 'You can't find that many in America to hire,' he said. These factory engineers did not have to be PhDs or geniuses; they simply needed to have basic engineering skills for manufacturing. Tech schools, community colleges, or trade schools could train them.
"'If you could educate these engineers,' he said, 'we could move more manufacturing plants here.'"
Isaacson wrote that the argument "made a strong impression on the president. Two or three times over the next month he told his aides, 'We've got to find ways to train those 30,000 manufacturing engineers that Jobs told us about.'"
Apple used to manufacture everything in the US, and spent lots of money to do so. Here's a video link from their highly automated factory they built in Fremont, CA for producing Macs back in the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk306ZkNOuc
(Yes, I know there's a third option, but that requires 218 Congress critters + 60 Senators + 1 President to wake up. Or, 288 Congress Critters + 67 Senators. Clearly 1 President == 70 Congressmen + 7 Senators.)
1. All the legal issues between the Regents of the University of California (the copyright holders on BSD) and AT&T (copyright holders on UNIX System 5 at the time) had not been resolved in 1991 when Linus Torvalds wrote his first kernel, which he did to get around AT&T in the first place.
2. Linux became a mature OS right when the Internet was exploding, and received a massive amount of hype from the tech pubs; thus increased mindshare in the PHB crowd. What the PHBs get interested in flows down.
Because Mini-DisplayPort isn't a standard, and absolutely isn't used by anyone else. Certainly not practically every AMD video adapter on the market. Every Lenovo notebook certainly doesn't have a DisplayPort output on it that requires a $5 adapter to use a Cinema Display with it. Neither do Dell laptops.
Or HP. Oh wait, they pretty much all do.
You call me a "Fanboy," I call you a "Hater." They are both meaningless pejoratives.
FYI, this post was typed on a Lenovo T420 running Windows 7, which happens to be plugged into a 27" Cinema Display with full functionality.
Strangely, Dell and Samsung both have 2560x1440 27" displays for the exact same list price, but without many of the features that make the LED Thunderbolt Display such a great display (built in power cable if you're using it with a MacBook, built in thunderbolt to USB and gigabit ethernet bridge, aluminum enclosure rather than plastic, built-in 720p camera, built-in speakers that aren't terrible)
That's the ENTIRE purpose of Microsoft's $150M "investment" in Apple
It wasn't the entire purpose. There was also a claim in court that Microsoft was going to lose regarding the wholesale theft of QuickTime code. However, Apple wasn't interested a lump sum from Microsoft's massive pile of cash. They wanted something far more valuable - continuity. And that's what they got.
Everyone involved in the deal won: Apple, Microsoft, Apple's customers, Microsoft's customers, Apple's shareholders, Microsoft's shareholders.
(The Mac Business Unit at Microsoft at one point had a nicer version of Office than Windows' Office)
I would contend that they still do. Death to the ribbon!
Really? Show me the virus that can inject itself to a dual- layer DVD in a fireproof safe. Or onto original install media.
Even if Microsoft encrypts the restore image, the cipher will be stored on the compromised system that you are trying to restore, thus it can be compromised as well.
"these features should be very welcome on the desktop, too."
Yeah, until someone writes a malware which cracks open the stored image file and inserts itself. You can reset your infection with the rest of Windows!
Please show the filed complaints of Apple v Amazon (kindle fire), Apple v Motorola (Xoom), Apple v Asus (Eee Transformer) or Apple v RIM (PlayBook).
Oh, I guess there is still plenty of tablets on the market that Apple isn't suing the manufacturers, because they are not blatant copies of the design. But don't let facts get in the way of your bias.
Agreed. I have a FreeBSD setup using ZFS. I have it configured for raidz2 (two parity drives) and use zfs snapshotting to do incremental backups to a second raidz1 pool with cheaper drives configured to spin down.
Yes, if the house burns down I'll still lose everything, but this isn't enterprise disaster recovery I'm going for.
Don't forget the massive hydrogen explosions that blew the walls off the buildings. I'm sure that overpressure can't cause any significant cracking in concrete either.
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Just like you, I once forgot that WiFi exists...
Take a pill dude, it was meant to be humor.
I still want my biscuit.
Yeah, because I've never been woken up in the middle of the night, without a biscuit OR tea, and faced an 18 hour shift because I was "on call" and a salaried employee.
At least they got the damn biscuit.
There's quite a few differences between the Apple of 1985, and the Apple of 2012.
#1 is that Steve Jobs spent a decade clearing out projects that were going nowhere, instead focusing the entire company on a handful of projects that all tied together in order to increase each one's value.
#2 is that Steve Jobs spent a decade clearing out the stiffs that were "managing" the place in the 90s, and installed people that had the same drive he did, and set the whole company up to focus on design and proper function, rather than shoveling out products for the sake of announcing products. There's no John Sculley running things today.
If you make products that people actually want, rather than continue gravy-training the success of the past, maybe you'll have a sustainable revenue stream.
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Darl McBride
Why compete with AD when you can just extend the de facto standard with the attributes you need? Apple published a white paper on exactly how to do that: http://www.inspirednetworks.ca/site/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Modifying_the_Active_Directory_Schema.pdf
No one was buying Apple server hardware except for very few niche markets, and Apple likes being a company that actually makes money on products. Strange, I know, but that's where it is. There were rare places where an Xserve made sense, and they were brilliant in those places, but the fact remains that you can run tens of thousands of Macs without having a single install of Mac OS X Server in your environment. This is something that should be celebrated, rather than used to deride. It's the opposite of vendor lock-in.
Re: iOS management tools - Because the world clearly needs even more MDM choices that all do exactly the same thing (what the APIs allow). AirWatch, Good, Motorola MSP, Altiris CMS, FileWave, JAMF, etc. aren't nearly enough. Apple publishes an MDM API (Just like Android, BTW), and lets MDM vendors fight it out for superiority (Just like Google, BTW). If you're a small business that doesn't want to pay for a full-blown MDM, you can get a Mac Mini server and turn on the profile manager service if you want an Apple-provided solution.
However, enterprise doesn't want an Apple-provided solution for MDM, because they want to manage ALL of their mobile devices from one console - BlackBerry, Android, iOS, WinMo (Yes, it's still out there), WP7, etc. The days of using 18 consoles for 18 different device platforms are over - the world has better tools now.
As someone who works with mobility products in Fortune-50 business, I can tell you that Apple cares quite deeply for the enterprise. They just have a starting point of a consumer device, but with every software release it adds more and more of what enterprise wants. They are asking, enterprise is answering, and Apple is changing their stuff to suit.
RIM is not, and that's why RIM is dying.
Any issue that has the ACLU, MoveOn, and the Tea Party Patriots shoulder to shoulder should definitely be paid attention to, and recognized as a universally bad idea.
If those three organizations can get together on it, surely the rest of us can too?
I'm wondering how many Sun / Oracle ZFS patents they are going to stomp on themselves. I doubt that Oracle will be any more willing to share certain patents with Microsoft, then Microsoft would share with Oracle.
Got it in one. MacOSForge had a working driver and filesystem version for ZFS on Snow Leopard. However, on the day before Snow Leopard shipped, it was yanked off the download repository, because Apple couldn't come to licensing terms with (then) Sun.
They had ZFS completely implemented on Mac OS X 10.6, and had to abort due to licensing. The package is still kicking around out there if you go looking, but I doubt anyone is maintaining it anymore. Too bad, too.
It doesn't matter if it passes with 100 votes in the Senate, if it's DOA in the House.
It won't see the President's desk.
If you read the Steve Jobs biography, he's quoted as telling the President that the reason Apple doesn't manufacture in the US has nothing to do with labor costs. The reason is that they can't get the 30,000 manufacturing engineers necessary to support 700,000 factory workers because the education system is fucked. China has no problem producing the engineers necessary to keep such a factory going.
Apple used to manufacture everything in the US, and spent lots of money to do so. Here's a video link from their highly automated factory they built in Fremont, CA for producing Macs back in the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk306ZkNOuc
Then fly, and opt for the groping.
No particle radiation involved there.
(Yes, I know there's a third option, but that requires 218 Congress critters + 60 Senators + 1 President to wake up. Or, 288 Congress Critters + 67 Senators. Clearly 1 President == 70 Congressmen + 7 Senators.)
Two things:
1. All the legal issues between the Regents of the University of California (the copyright holders on BSD) and AT&T (copyright holders on UNIX System 5 at the time) had not been resolved in 1991 when Linus Torvalds wrote his first kernel, which he did to get around AT&T in the first place.
2. Linux became a mature OS right when the Internet was exploding, and received a massive amount of hype from the tech pubs; thus increased mindshare in the PHB crowd. What the PHBs get interested in flows down.
The mole people. Duh!
Because Mini-DisplayPort isn't a standard, and absolutely isn't used by anyone else. Certainly not practically every AMD video adapter on the market. Every Lenovo notebook certainly doesn't have a DisplayPort output on it that requires a $5 adapter to use a Cinema Display with it. Neither do Dell laptops.
Or HP. Oh wait, they pretty much all do.
You call me a "Fanboy," I call you a "Hater." They are both meaningless pejoratives.
FYI, this post was typed on a Lenovo T420 running Windows 7, which happens to be plugged into a 27" Cinema Display with full functionality.
Strangely, Dell and Samsung both have 2560x1440 27" displays for the exact same list price, but without many of the features that make the LED Thunderbolt Display such a great display (built in power cable if you're using it with a MacBook, built in thunderbolt to USB and gigabit ethernet bridge, aluminum enclosure rather than plastic, built-in 720p camera, built-in speakers that aren't terrible)
What were you saying again?
That's the ENTIRE purpose of Microsoft's $150M "investment" in Apple
It wasn't the entire purpose. There was also a claim in court that Microsoft was going to lose regarding the wholesale theft of QuickTime code. However, Apple wasn't interested a lump sum from Microsoft's massive pile of cash. They wanted something far more valuable - continuity. And that's what they got.
Everyone involved in the deal won: Apple, Microsoft, Apple's customers, Microsoft's customers, Apple's shareholders, Microsoft's shareholders.
(The Mac Business Unit at Microsoft at one point had a nicer version of Office than Windows' Office)
I would contend that they still do. Death to the ribbon!
Really? Show me the virus that can inject itself to a dual- layer DVD in a fireproof safe. Or onto original install media.
Even if Microsoft encrypts the restore image, the cipher will be stored on the compromised system that you are trying to restore, thus it can be compromised as well.
"these features should be very welcome on the desktop, too."
Yeah, until someone writes a malware which cracks open the stored image file and inserts itself. You can reset your infection with the rest of Windows!
So, $5.02 then?
Talk about nitpicking...
Well, since Apple recognizes that iOS is for content consumption, where the MacOS is for content creation, I'm guessing it will be quite some time.
Please show the filed complaints of Apple v Amazon (kindle fire), Apple v Motorola (Xoom), Apple v Asus (Eee Transformer) or Apple v RIM (PlayBook).
Oh, I guess there is still plenty of tablets on the market that Apple isn't suing the manufacturers, because they are not blatant copies of the design. But don't let facts get in the way of your bias.
Agreed. I have a FreeBSD setup using ZFS. I have it configured for raidz2 (two parity drives) and use zfs snapshotting to do incremental backups to a second raidz1 pool with cheaper drives configured to spin down.
Yes, if the house burns down I'll still lose everything, but this isn't enterprise disaster recovery I'm going for.
Don't forget the massive hydrogen explosions that blew the walls off the buildings. I'm sure that overpressure can't cause any significant cracking in concrete either.