“In addition to its partnership with Apple to build enterprise apps for iOS devices, IBM could also be making a big leap and make a significant switch to Macs internally,” Chuong Nguyen reports for The Economic Times.
“The former Apple rival was said to adopt as many as 50,000 MacBooks for employee use by the end of 2015, but that number could be much higher,” Nguyen reports. “If accurate, and if plans pan out, up to 75% of IBM employees could make the switch from Lenovo-branded ThinkPad notebooks to MacBook laptops.
“According to Jeff Smith, IBM’s Chief Information Officer, Apple said that its largest corporate customer orders 25,000 MacBooks a year. Smith said that he told Apple that IBM alone could consume 150,000 to 200,000 Macs annually, or up to eight times the number of MacBooks Apple sells to its biggest enterprise client currently,” Nguyen reports. “Smith said that he had spoken with Apple CEO Tim Cook of the potential switch, noting that between 50% to 75% of IBM employees could ditch their ThinkPads for MacBooks.”
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Never thought this would happen. Need the rest of the industry to follow. Also wish someone can change that pic of S Jobs flipping off IBM sign into an OK or Peace sign. 😀
The rest of the industry won’t follow. They’re only interested in cutting costs and carrying on the Windows tradition. It’s only happening with IBM due to the partnership.
Most hardware vendors know how to forge deals and be willing to cut deals even if it involves kickbacks or bribes. If Apple believes it can sell computers using quality alone then they don’t understand basic human nature.
Sad but true.
So you want to change history because it is an inconvenient truth?
People who seek to alter history to tell a story of their own liking often end up as deluded despots on the premiss that changing one small item leads to changing other small items until you are changing large significant items to the point of threatening anyone who points out that there is a limit to what can be changed historically…….NOTHING! If we are to learn lessons form historical mistakes and successes.
“…consume 150,000 to 200,000 Macs annually”?
Are IBM employees eating these devices?
Will IBM over ten years purchase two million Macs?
How many employees does IBM have?
Does the author have any idea what words mean?
IBM has many, many clients who are using crappy PCs and horrible operating systems full of known and unknown flaws.
Both IBMers and IBM clients will make up the Mac numbers.
Use your heads, not your indignation.
Fred just HAS to complain about something, no matter how utterly pointless… even to extent of complaining about the use of the word “consume”.
Words have meaning, a simple concept, one that you apparently cannot understand or accept. Nice talkin’ to ya, Sean.
I understand the meaning of words. Its a promo piece.
I also understand the total costs of ownership of both my MacBook Pros and my Dell workstation Laptops and there is an easy winner on TCO.
The MBPros win hands down on longevity, ability to run any OS I need to run with the battery being the only thing I’ve replaced on a MBPro after 5 years of running.
The Dells are pretty good, but not as good & as trouble free as a Mac running OSX and Dell’s laptops and chargers weigh a whole lot more.
I believe the author does know what words mean; he was using this definition from Merriam-Webster:
5: to utilize as a customer
No wonder lead times to get these MacBooks are so long.
As an IBMer, I can tell you these figures are completely wrong. First, laptops are updated every four years. That means that even if all employees decided to switch to the Mac, that would translate to about 100,000 computers a year. The expectation is that about 20% of the workforce will move to the Mac. That means about 20K a year at best. If you add to that that many IBMErs who currently use a Mac at work had to buy it with their own money, it is likely that they will no longer buy one for that effect in the future. That means another 1K or 2K less sales.
Welcome IBM. Seriously.
Welcome to the most exciting and important marketplace since the computer revolution began 70 years ago.
And congratulations on your new Macintosh computers.
Putting real computing power in the hands of the individual IBM employees is already improving the way they work, think, learn, communicate and ship software to Enterprise customers.
Reliable just-works computing is fast becoming as fundamental a requirement as clock speed and RAM.
We look forward to your cooperation in the massive effort to distribute Apple technology to the world. And we appreciate the magnitude of your commitment.
“IBM could also be making a big leap and make a significant switch to Macs internally,”
That ignores the fact that IBM’s customers will be steered toward Apple products!
The mushroom effect continues.
From this:
One of the most famous quotes, perhaps the most famous quote, from Conan is: “Conan! What is best in life?” “To crush your enemies — See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”
To this:
“To crush your old enemies — See them driven before you to use and support your hardware and software, and to hear the lamentations of their fanboys, analysts and paid shills”
Happy weekend to all –
A couple of suggestions to IBM :
Publish some apps to Apple’s OS X App Store.
Adopt the Swift language for some new Linux projects.
Remember this press release
https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/07/15Apple-and-IBM-Forge-Global-Partnership-to-Transform-Enterprise-Mobility.html
It says:
“As part of the exclusive IBM MobileFirst for iOS agreement, IBM will also sell iPhones and iPads with the industry-specific solutions to business clients worldwide.”
The biggest potential “win” for Apple here (with Macs) is for IBM’s consulting business to create solutions for clients that involve Macs (instead of Windows PCs) and sell the Macs along with the custom software.
If it wasn’t for IBM’s inability to meet launch deadlines on the IBM PC, I may never had bought my Apple ][+. And that would have been a very sad thing. So, thank you, IBM, and welcome to Apple. A company that delivers. Consistently!
Apple could purchase IBM. The next administration if it is Republican, would allow it.