“After inking a deal with Apple to push iOS devices and enterprise apps to its customers, IBM today started offering employees Macs for the first time,” Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac. “We’ve seen the official IBM notice, and several IBM employees on Twitter are praising the decision after years of PC hell.”
“In a memo to employees, IBM notes that starting today employees can pick from a MacBook Pro, Macbook Air, or a PC when setting up a new or refreshed workstation,” Kahn reports. “IBM notes that it currently has around 15,000 Macs deployed through its BYOD program, but plans to deploy around 50,000 Macbooks by the end of the year. That, according to the memo, would make IBM the biggest ‘Mac shop’ around, and the company said it’s sharing what it learns through the new deployment with Apple as Apple assists through its device enrollment program.”
MacDailyNews Take:
Benefits of #IBM #Apple partnership. Employees can now choose between MAC or PC. #betterwaytowork
— John Collins (@johncollins2014) May 28, 2015
@9to5mac IBM send email to employee to ask them change to Mac from Thinkpad.
— smoothdvd (@smoothdvd) May 28, 2015
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MacDailyNews Take: Well, folks, we’ve now pretty much seen it all! That’s it. 12 years, 8 months, and 18 days. 51,387 posts. The End. Thanks for coming! 😉
As we have always said, even as many short-sightedly waved (and continue to wave) the white flag, the war is not over. And, yes, we shall prevail… – MacDailyNews Take, January 10, 2005
With this news, we know some old-time IBM employees, now retired, whose heads are in serious danger of popping off like dandelions right now. Be careful, guys!
Of course, before we sign off, we’d be remiss if we didn’t end on this for old times’ sake:
