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It’s got the same energy as the “year of the Linux desktop” meme. I think that the mobile space will be Apple-dominated first, then laptops will come later as the PC market naturally shrinks and starves off less-profitable players à la the current tablet market.

Good news! Save it for 20 years and read it again! 😁

Yea, most enterprises that I know of are looking at VDI. I don't think Apple has made any effort in that area?

Microsoft has done an excellent job achieving parity between Mac and Windows by making the Windows version worse, as well.

Google Docs is fast becoming the standard office suite in a lot of organizations.

The bigger problems Apple has are their enterprise device and user management, and the fact that many businesses are still reliant on Windows-only software.

Most companies I've worked for buy machines that usually aren't much cheaper than Apple equivalents, at least in terms of MSRP, despite the quality often being worse. My work-provided 2022 HP Z-Book 15 is more expensive as configured than my personal M2 14" MacBook Pro, and is still a shittier machine in just about every objective (and subjective) way I can think of. This is because enterprises typically buy business class laptops like Lattitudes and ThinkPads rather than lower cost (and less durable) consumer oriented machines. That said, it is not uncommon for IT departments at large enterprises to pay well under MSRP for these machines when buying in bulk.

Sticker price isn't that big a factor in enterprise in my experience. For one thing, Dell, HP, and Lenovo's enterprise PC lines are more expensive than their consumer lines, so the difference isn't all that big. Also, there have been many studies showing that Macs offer a lower TCO than Windows PCs.

I can see this happening, though it will vary widely by industry for sure. I've been working in roughly 50/50 Mac/PC offices for over a decade now. Users like Macs, Apple has good enterprise management and security features, and Microsoft is kind of shitting the bed with their cloud migrations. Microsoft lives by inertia and backwards compatibility, and they're throwing away that advantage by making these transitions difficult.

I really hope this will not be the case.

It's a real shit show for a small business to correctly setup their MDM and account sync. One of the hardest parts is getting those shitty devices into the Apple registry, i.e. connecting the device with a Business (Account).

It would be good if the change was towards Linux, but it seems more likely the transition will be towards an increasingly restrictive Android, reflecting how phones have become people's primary computing devices, so I'm not looking forward to it.

As someone that both runs Linux at home as a daily driver and runs an infrastructure and ops team for a company.

The threats against the two are totally different and modern businesses need things like detection and response capabilities. Most of which don’t have Linux desktop counterparts.

I used Linux for my work PC for a year and had endless problems. If it was my personal pc that would be fine but I was wasting time that I should have been using to complete my work, instead spending that time debugging constantly changing problems

Would Linux not be a better call? Both upfront and maintenance cost would be much lower without question.

And they get to choose? Never worked for a business where that was true.

Haha I actually enforced this when I started my current job. New hires get Macs, and if you want a Windows machine you have to justify it. In which case, you get a Thinkpad. I went from weeding through Intune daily to checking Jamf twice a week.

Isn't apple working on a WINE fork to run windows apps on mac OS?