“Estimates suggest that there are a lot of crusty old beige-box PCs out there, with some 600 million of them over five years old,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes for ZDNet. “Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said that this was ‘sad,’ and that he’d like to see them taken out of service and replaced with shiny new iPad Pro tablets.”
“There’s little doubt that an iPad Pro can be set up to carry out most tasks that a five-year-old PC might be doing, whether that’s running a spreadsheet application, being used to send and receive email, or whatever. That’s the easy part,” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “And by combining an iPad Pro with a keyboard and the stylus, I’m certain that someone could become just as proficient at doing most PC tasks on the iPad Pro.”
“The hardware is all there. The app ecosystem is all there (Apple is now even offering iPad buyers the chance to grab a copy of Office 365 at the checkout). It just needs corporate IT departments the world over to decide to make the switch,’ Kingsley-Hughes writes. “Is enterprise ready to start replacing Windows machines with iOS devices?”
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MacDailyNews Take: Not places with old blood IT doofuses still clinging to their jobs, building their roadblocks, stifling progress, who think Swift is a young pop music singer, but there is plenty of new blood coming online now in IT departments worldwide. Windows is an anachronism.
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