“According to one unconfirmed source, Federal Express may be looking to make a significant purchase of Macs to replace their current PCs,” MacRumors.com reports. “Reportedly, the move is under consideration due to the recent wave of viruses that have swept the PC world.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If this turns out to be factual, it would make HP’s announcement of rebranding Apple’s iPod seem like minor news. In other words, this would be HUGE!
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Man… THAT would get the business world to investigate why their IT chimps haven’t explored mac as a viable alternative. FedEx?!?! Geez. I’m just stunned at the prospect.
HUGE? No Kidding! More like, Astronomical!
It’s from Macrumors, so take with a pinch of salt for the moment. Still, even if FedEx are just looking to insert a few Macs to keep their business running when their Windows machines are out of action, this would be incredible news for Apple if it comes to something.
Ridiculous.
Massive MCSE zombie staff.
Massive investment in Intel based equipment.
Not that it couldn’t be done, but it would require “Thinking Different” on a scale that hasn’t been seen since Copernicus tried to convince Christians that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
Would be cool but lets wait and see this it’s confirmed otherwise, a rumor will be a rumor.
I live in suburban Memphis, home of FedEx, and will keep my eyes and ears open. They are in the process of buying Kinko’s, maybe the Macs are for them.
“Not that it couldn’t be done, but it would require “Thinking Different” on a scale that hasn’t been seen since Copernicus tried to convince Christians that the Earth revolved around the Sun.”
Yeah, right, the Earth goes round the Sun does it? Ha ha, very funny. Next you’ll be telling me it isn’t flat.
MacRumors isn’t exactly the most reliable source of information and they don’t quote any particular sources as to how they came up with this, so I too will take this with a big grain of salt. However, if it did turn out to be true, this would indeed be huge. The critics certainly couldn’t use the baseless logic that Macs can’t power a large business anymore for damn sure.
“Ha ha, very funny. Next you’ll be telling me it isn’t flat.”
No, of course it is not flat. Anybody who has seen mountains and canyons can tell that. Earth is like a bumpy blueberry pancake with extra maple syrup (Hmmmm, pancake! *drool*). While we are talking science, let me tell you gravity is a myth too.
Too bad Copernicus was not part of Apple’s Think Different campaign.
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A significant purchase of Macs could mean anything. With a company the size of Fedex, switching their marketing department to Macs could involve a significant purchase.
It almost surely does not mean servers or mission-critical machines. It’s probably a group of people who receive a lot of email attachments and cannot just delete them without reading them.
Hey, who do you think they named Copertino after?
Copernicus was right there at the start of Apple…
Maybe the Macs are for Fed Ex’s IT department – that way at least they can remain online through all the viruses.
Nobody <b>”While we are talking science, let me tell you gravity is a myth too.”<b>
Oh I know that. If you look really closely, everything is covered in tiny pieces of Velcro�, except the Sun, which is kept in orbit by an enormous Jai Alai scoop.
Oh bugger, missed out a /
“The Earth goes round the Sun? That’s just not Biblically correct!”
– Jerry Falwell
I worked for Kinkos before the FEDEX takeover, the Macs there were ill-used, underused, and generally ignored. Every year there were fewer Macs in the line-up. Those that were replaced ran like crap because of all the bundled software they patched together.
If this is indeed true, it will be a few years down the road before we say a change on this front.
RE Earth/Christians etc…
God isn’t really confused about how he made the earth and universe. In fact he made it/us for a purpose. A much greater discovery than earth revolving around the sun is figuring out what that purpose is.
randall
The Kinkos angle could be at the root of this rumor.
I have always found it interesting that Kinkos has increasingly relied on Windows PCs to equip their graphic design work stations in store.
Its no wonder that most serious graphic designers have found other means to output their work than using the lame setups found at most Kinkos stores. The bulk of Kinkos DTP customers are the soccer moms and wannabe graphic designers with their ghastly clip art and green text printed on purple paper.
;o)
Wintel and graphic design is one of the biggest oxymorons I can think of in today’s world.
Guy’s, I think this is great news, however, more of this business can be had if Apple played their cards right. A problem that has plagued Apple in the business world has been perception. Apple products have been perceived as expensive and more geared for creative markets, than for business. Their products are typically more expensive than the average PC. Business’s buy in bulk, they want the cheapest computer they can buy. These computers will be used by not just one person but several. Kind of like a rental car, if it gets you from point A to point B it’ll work. Buy the cheapest ones possible. (That’s one reason you don�t see very many BMW rental cars.) They want to buy as many as they can as cheaply as they can. Quality doesn�t matter. They don’t care about the enclosure being aluminum, they would rather have cheap plastic and a more conservative box than an incredibly cool looking machine. That’s business. I can’t imagine seeing G5’s or iMacs sitting at your local bank or wherever computers are used. They just don�t fit in. That is the first issue.
The second issue is the perception that Macintosh computers are “cutsie” and “cool”. Businesses don�t want their employees getting caught up in “cute” or “cool” machines, It would be more of a distraction than anything else. Why do you think Windows is so bland, yet businesses snap them up. Businesses were very resistant to the Windows XP GUI when it first came out because they didn�t like all the frills and colors. Windows added the option to go back to the more conservative feel of Windows 98 and most businesses chose that option. Why??? Who knows. Apple is the epitome of frills and cool. Businesses are the opposite, unless of course your business relies on creativity like marketing, print media etc. Then cool is a prerequisite and therefore required. This is where you see all the Macs. Continued . . . .
. . . . continued. My idea is this: Apple needs to do for business what it did for education. A completely new machine dedicated to business, marketed for business. (Remember the eMac?) Cheaper components, more conservative look and feel, plastic black enclosure possibly? A boxier, cheaper to produce enclosure and monitor would suit business just fine. They don�t need, nor want all the frills. I think this is one of the biggest issues with corporations overlooking the Macintosh and considering an inferior and bland OS like Linux? The Mac is ready now, Linux is not and may never be. Besides, it�s impossible to use as a desktop OS. Why even consider it? Probably because it�s cheap and appears to be a similarly conservative alternative to Windows. We all know it doesn�t compare to the Mac yet business�s continue to overlook Apple as a computer supplier. Why, why why??? This is why I think the Mac is overlooked by business. It�s all in perception. I think they need to market to big business with a cheaper, more conservative machine, dedicated to business with an OS that lacks all the frills, a watered down OSX possibly, to begin to attract these large corporations. A completely different marketing approach with dedicated hardware & software solely for corporations. Based on OSX of course. Opinions anyone?
I don’t know about you, but people in business already add their own colors, and “coolness” to the Windows app. I think if anything, it would make the bank more modern looking and less like sweatshop.
Jesus Christ is your savior.
Hey I’d settle for FedEx’s shipping software just working on a Mac.
Heck, I’d settle for FedEx’s website working on Safari.
MacRumors actually has a VERY good record.
That means they tend to judge things accurately–knowing what to present with a grain of sale and what to present with certainty.
They call this rumor “unconfirmed,” so that’s all it is. An interesting possibility but a long way off. Even if such a thing is being considered, there’s no certainty the plan will go forward.
It certainly makes sense though!
Won�t ever happen. It would be such a huge change and investment for fedex worldwide.
Only thing I see them doing is adding a Mac as a test at Kinkos to compliment the windoze