“Researchers have discovered that Apple’s new operating system, codenamed Leopard, will create 0 new jobs when it is launched early next year,” Tim Gaden writes for APC Magazine.
“This research (which was not commissioned by Apple) stands in sharp contrast to the findings of an industry report (commissioned by Microsoft) that Vista’s release will create 100,000 new jobs in tech support and help desk positions,” Gaden writes.
Gaden writes, “While Vista seems set to impact on the economy by creating more IT support jobs to fix the broken or frozen computers of other employees, research shows that Apple will take a different path.”
Gaden writes, “Apple is well known for its award-winning innovation. With Leopard’s release Apple will continue an innovative strategy of impacting on the economy by increasing individual productivity. It will let people get more of their own work done, faster and smarter, without the need for endless calls to tech support, compatibility hassles, driver problems or time wasted defending their PCs from viruses and trojans.”
Full article here.
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The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years… Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow… – Steve Jobs, February 1996
Mac OS X. Welcome to the renaissance.
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Lovely article, lapped it all up!
>Vista’s release will create 100,000 new jobs in tech support and help desk positions>
All those jobs just to keep Vista running, when Leopard just needs one Jobs.
More like the Reformation, MDN…
The tech/IT guys should send M$ a portion of their paychecks as a “thank you” for creating crappy stuff that requires hours of billable time to maintain.
The irony is that Vista will generate some Mac-related work, as well, since some users will finally be compelled to switch. There is a market for services like helping people get set up, transfer their data, etc.
And at the risk of stating the obvious, I’d like to clarify that I mean switching FROM Windows TO OS X.
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Ron
Nice work. I was thinking there had to be a Jobs joke in there somewhere but my brain is in reverse today.
See: MS and Vista are good for the economy. Context, social merit, and long term consequences are meaningless in the face of job creation. God made man to serve the economy.
I deal with different businesses that have to make decisions as to whether or not to go Mac or stay with Windows.
Why is it that all the IT guys are always wanting to stay with Windows? I become increasingly frustrated when talking with these guys because their arguments are null and void.
Example- One company that I dealt with last spring had over 500 computers to work with. One department ( Marketing ) had 13 Macs that they used. This companies IT guys wanted this department to give up their Macs just so the company could be 100% Windows. ( I imagine they wanted better control of this departments machines?!?!?! ) When the head of the marketing department did a survey they found that these IT guys had not spent 1 single hour in 2005 on these machines. What better argument could you want? Thank you for this article to put some of these IT guys in their places.
Go Ron!
That was the funniest joke I have ever seen on MDN. I have never typed the acroym “LOL” before.