“Looking back, 2006 has been a great year for Apple. Wall Street continues to be enamored with all things Apple, the company’s laptop market share is up to 10%, and the media distribution business has changed forever — with iTV arriving after the first of the year,” Yuval Kossovsky writes for Computerworld. “Will Apple also partner with a mobile virtual network operator, or buy a cell carrier outright for the final push in its effort to broaden its reach?”
Kossovsky writes, “I could go on about touch-screen video iPods, market share, new models, the completion of the Intel transition, the rumored cell phones and more. The only prediction I will make is my annual prognostication, which is that iChatAV will break out to more mainstream use this coming year, and that Apple will embed it in a 3G cell phone. IChatAV (or, as I see it, iSpeakwalkandtalk) will be the killer app for mobile operators seeking to increase average revenues per user via data services.”
Kossovsky writes, “Having gotten that bit of speculation out of the way, I want to focus on something concrete. I think the biggest news for Apple in 2007 will be Microsoft Vista. Really. More to the point, in managing the risk of migration to Vista, I think the argument can be made that migrating to Mac OS X as a primary operating system is a good risk management strategy.”
“In migrating to Mac OS X and Apple hardware, a company can save on training costs and mitigate the risks involved in moving to Vista by eliminating the necessity of an all-or-nothing migration. An option like that should give any CIO, CTO, CFO or CEO something to seriously consider,” Kossovsky writes. “And that’s how I see 2007 shaping up for Apple’s place in the enterprise.”
Full article here.
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Apple’s Mac means business – December 18, 2006
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InfoWorld: Apple’s Mac OS X platform deserves good, hard look by enterprise – September 22, 2006
Prejudice keeps Apple Mac out of the enterprise – September 01, 2006
Boot Camp: Apple’s Trojan horse into the enterprise market? – April 05, 2006
My company too… Macland hehe…
100% focus on production…
0% troubleshooting…
MDM word: mass, as is mass-migration 2007
DON’T PASS THE KOOL-AID:
You, are such a LOSER, that YOU continue to troll the Mac sites because your choice of OS is fuggin’ pathetic.
As is your “Zune”
As is everything in your loser world.
It’s made to break.
M$ makes a fortune teaching morons like you that pay for your MCSE’s and other worthless paper to hang on your walls.
Your digital GOD – Bill – is so jealous of Steve Jobs that he is throwing in the towel before M$ starts it’s inevitable tumble down.
They saturated and ruined many markets.
The fall will be long and hard.
Clinch your buttcheaks, baby.
MDN: “Industry” as in this industry is about to change…
What did that school technology director say a few days back about Macs in the “real world”?
More and more of these enterprise magazines are getting on board. Never thought I’d see the day. It’s never ceases to amaze me how removing the Microsoft element in computing drastically reduces problems and makes the whole experience better.
Interoperability is a very long word. Can you spell IT?
Don’t pass the koolaid: Maybe the ipod market saturates. That’s why Apple is growing their computer market and expanding into other products. Microsoft knows that they are going to lose the OS market sometime within the next few decades they are trying to expand their product range also. What will drive business to Mac OS and other OSs from Windows, business. If they figure out that their long term savings will be greater with a switch then yes they will switch. My company just went to a new raise and bonus system b/c it will save them 20 million in the next 5 years. They do have to pay more this year but in the next 5 they’ll make up the difference and then some. Smart businesses are willing to take a hit up front for long term savings and profits.
This is period in time where many businesses have the opportunity to reaccess their investment in Microsoft’s system. Is it worth it to move to Vista? Do we stay with XP until we have to move? Do we look at other systems? What would it mean to how we do business if we do move? How much will it cost us? Business.
Koolaid, you need to think beyond your box. No market leader gets to keep their lead without true innovation. Microsoft knows this, they’re trying to make their moves. No, I don’t think Apple will take 85-90% share, I do think they’ll take 25-40%. Is that sizable enough?
Microsoft wasn’t a big player, some luck and some smart business moves put them on top. They can be knocked down to a 2nd tier player like they did to IBM.
Check your portfolios today? aapl is tanking. I’ve been shorting from 90. Thanks for your donations.
It’s ALL of YOU that crack me up with your endless predictions for the last ten years of this mass exodus from Windows to OS-fill in the blank version X. When is this going to materialize, geniuses, other than in your kaleidoscope hallucinogenic fantasy worlds?
Dude, I bought a pool, a car, and a new garage with AAPL this year.
You OTOH, are such a HUGE loser, that you jsut sit here and take it up your fat ass – like MS will be going forward.
I bet this is really “Fester” Ballmer posting because they took away your MySpace account in Redmond…you fatass dope.
And the only thing that’s short in your world is…yep.
MDN: “floor” as in your dong will never reach it, Kool-Aid
$82 dollars is tanking??? The $90+ was inflated due to rampant iphone speculation. It’s just correcting. Analysts can shove it in their ear. Investing is a long game, not shorting.
Someone here is deluded. Look at history. Market leaders fall, sometimes they become market leaders again. Ipod will not always rule the roost when it comes to mp3 players, but somebody has to introduce a compelling product to oust it. If Apple were to become the market leader again then one day they will lose that position too. Get real Microsoft fanboi. Go educate yourself. Empire like companies can implode and disappear just like small companies.
Me in La: I’m guessing with all your gay references you are a closet cock chugger and need
to come out soon. And, change your handle to Me in West Hollywood.
Enterprise decision-makers need to focus on getting the transporter to work first.
Llia: LOL
Koolaid: You have nothing to bring to the table. No valid argument, no humor, nothing. That’s why you respond to the ass and dick jokes that are out for a cheap laugh, rather then an intelligent argument. Go away.
Me in LA: Get better material.
Don’t pass the koolaid gets it.
I’m keeping a place at the Christmas table for you this year. All I ask is you bring that pleasant, positive, open minded Windows-lover personality that we Windows users all seem to have. With you, it’s gonna be a real party.
You’re wasting your time with these Apple lemmings. They don’t get it. Just listen to them. “The IT staff where I work are morons,” or “We’re all Mac where I work and everything is great.” Give me a break. First of all, IT staff have to take exams from Microsoft to prove their worth. They know all you have to know, which is Windows rules, and Apple is overpriced junk that doesn’t work with anything. The teachers at MSCE class said so. Case closed.
Did you see where MSFT is today? Redmond you ROCK!
Your potential. Our passion.
Totally hot air. Such a lobster. Troll, shut the fuck up already. Just blah blah blah and with Apple selling at 3x – 4x the market. What is amazing is idiots such as you who still can say “Apple is going nowhere”. It sux big time to be so frigging moronic on the Windows side. Stay with Microshaft: it is the only shit OS you deserve running on any piece of hardware.
Microsoft so evidently makes money from such low-expecting customers, truly milking shithead cows, still more are coming to say “Windows is best”.
You are truly that idiot or it is just that you can’t do better than that?
“IT staff have to take exams from Microsoft to prove their worth. “
Zune Tang gets it: IT staff are Microshaft lemming, unable to distinguish Linux from BSDUnix from OS X. They are the brainless clerk of IT world. Give them a shell and they go blank. Their IT curriculum starts with Office and when asked what system are you installing they reply: we are updating to Office 2007.
What a bunch of idiotic IT clerks Microshaft contributed to create.
so, what is actually better in windows ?
i use both everyday (on my mac), i really tried very hard, but could not find anything.
more software (especially games) don’t make windows a better os, that would be like saying that more roads make a better car, it’s absurd.
windows is clearly less stable (no it’s not because i’, using a mac, macs are pc’s now)
the properties windows are a maze, sometimes u end up where u started.
the UI has improved over the years, but it’s still bad, bad handling of the mouse for example (u can only understand what i mean when u use both)
menus at the top of the screen is a better choice, u find them with your eyes closed.
windows does not give any feedback when u open an application, at least not before it opens a window, so if u are impatient u frequently open applications twice.
it’s something u can get used to, but why should i have to do that ?
the fonts are horrible, too thin for UI, and too small for most.
windows XP home edition is an empty shell, no applications to manage music, photos etc (vista includes some of those now, they look unsurprisingly similar to their mac equivalent, not a bad idea, but the details, the feel is still wrong.
apple builds the hardware and software, so the integration is so much better, pc laptops need all kinds of additional buttons, something apple can handle with software.
wifi on windows requires typing prehistoric passkeys in hexadecimal.
windows activation is a pain, u can’t boot multiple machines from the same external HD without reactivating windows every time.
there is a lot of talk about viruses, that’s not necessarily microsoft’s fault, it’s just a result of their market share (as is the greater choice of bad software)
mac developers have great examples to follow, so most mac software is a lot better and easier to use, it’s not just an opinion, it’s something u can measure, numbers of clicks to complete a task etc (i’m an interface designer)
apple has issued UI guidelines since 1984 that result in more consistent software (like the command key equivalents)
the control key is NOT the right key for a key combination, it’s at the wrong place !
(the thumb is used to hit the space bar, so it’s closest to the windows key, why didn’t they use it ?
why do some applications have alt + key combinations AND control + key combinations ?
why can users edit properties that makes their hardware fail ?
why can’t applications not be a simple file that u can move around and remove when u want, without having to go trough a maze of windows (if u are allowed to remove them at all) ?
why is the startup screen still looking likes it’s been designed for a 512 by 342 screen ?
why are those tiny icons in the toolbar so incredibly small ?
what i like : explorer 7 is not bad at all, i really love their implementation of tabbed browsing (4 years later, but it’s good)
why is is so hard to create a computer to computer wireless network ? after trying for 2 hours i still could not figure it out.
why do users need cd’s to install drivers etc, could’t they come up with a standard for every type of hardware ?
why is windows 3 or 4 times more expensive than mac os x ?
seriously, u can only prefer windows if u have never used a mac (i don’t mean tried, but used for months), when your job depends on it’s difficulty to use, when u just don’t see subtle differences, and think britney spears is mozart, that a customized toyota is a ferrari.
even pricing is not an excuse anymore, u can get a mac for 500 dollars, and who cares if u have to spend a few hundreds more, it’s painful once, but if u don’t u pay for it the rest of your life.
my father who is over 70 years old used windows for almost 20 years, he switched to a mac, and never ever called me to ask for help, he is VERY happy, and u can find tens of thousands of people like him.
i still have to hear someone really happy about his switch from mac to windows.
open your minds guys, this is not intelligence, this is arbitrary nonsense.
To Zune Tang: Thanks for the dinner invite. I’ll bring some Merlot.
To To Don’t pass the koolaid: Try a little decaf.
Bruce: go suck-down some Kool-Aid. It’s good for both of you.
If you come HERE for intelligent conversation, you’re a step away from loading Vista my friend…
MDN: “parts” as in body parts are funny, Bruce.
My company as well is now giving the choice of Mac or PC, when only Windows was a choice before. Lots of Macs and Linux boxes lived on the network, too, but they were either for Linux-based development or personal machines used for company productivity.
When the company decided to give a choice for a Unix-based machine, the Mac won. This is mainly because (1) Macs can run Office, (2) “Linux” isn’t one OS. I.T. didn’t want a bunch of different boxes out there running different versions of Solaris, *buntu, Debian, SUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, Slackware, Mandriva. Linspire, Keeper, Mastodon, KNOPPIX, Symphony, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin, et al, with custom-compiled everything, kernel modules,
For example, the previous “standard” version of Linux for desktops included an old libc (C standard library). This meant there were no browsers available with security patches past 2003 or so. But upgrading libc means upgrading just about everything else on the machine. And when you have developers writing their own stuff, compiling their own versions of everything … it becomes a nightmare.
Hey Don’t Pass The Koolaid,
You’re still one of those who haven’t figured anything out. There isn’t any koolaid and there never was. It’s Apple Juice fool.
Me in LA: I have no problem dick and ass jokes. I have no problem with you being a complete choad. You think you’re funny, I wish you were. Your words are shit, come back when you have better ones. You fail to amuse me.
Be a jackass, I love it, be a fucking intelligent jackass. Have a little more fun with. Show some passion and craftsmanship. As it stands your insults and jokes are stupid they’re the same shit I heard 17 years ago when I was in middle school.
Some advice: Grow a spine that you can use in the real world. Grow some imagination that you can use period.
Martin: “there is a lot of talk about viruses, that’s not necessarily microsoft’s fault, it’s just a result of their market share (as is the greater choice of bad software)”
No, no, no! The myth of “security through obscurity” (ala marketshare variety) has een thoroughly debunked — it is just plain fallacious.
That there are so many viruses and so much malware for Windows is compltely due to faulty, sloppy software engineering! Don’t help the FUD machines by repeating the market share nonsense.
there are probably weaknesses in windows that make it easier to develop viruses for it, but u can’t discard the importance of market share.
if i was a virus developer i would probably target windows, not mac, because the virus is so much more likely to spread.
“No, no, no! The myth of “security through obscurity” (ala marketshare variety) has een thoroughly debunked — it is just plain fallacious.”
Debunked by who?
Lets say you have a virus, it can infect 5% of the machines it contacts, provided they are of the same architecture.
Lets then say that the virus contacts 1000 other machines.
The Windows virus contacts 1000 machines, 950 Windows PCs, 20 Macs and 30 other. It infects 47 machines on average, They each go on to infect another 47 machines and so on.
By contrast the Mac infects 1 machine, which goes on to infect one machine and so on.
As you can see in this instance because of obscurity, the Mac infection grows very slowly, after 100 generations, only 100 machines are infected.
Conversely with the Windows machine, after 100 generations, 162,101,037,159,107,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
machines are infected.
Clearly that’s more machines than actually exist, the entire vunerable population is infected.
So yes, tiny market share does have a protective effect on it’s own. Mac viruses truly can’t find enough other Macs out there to create sustainable, let alone rapidly growing infections.