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Originally Posted by DaveGee 
Gotta agree with ya... Apple and ever more so Steve has always demanded secrecy till the day a a product rollout... This fine for home users and perhaps tolerable for 'small shops' however a company with tens of thousands of workstations this just doesn't fly. They have a real business need to know what they will be buying for at least 18 months ... Even that would be less than optimal for most CIOs.
Apple also has this neat habit of killing an existing model DEAD as soon as a successor is rolled out.... Believe it or not MOST if not ALL big corporations will continue to buy 'old stuff' for over a year while they properly evaluate the new hardware for deployment. Having the rug pulled out at ZERO days notice is just too maddening for big institutions.
In a previous life I've purchased millions of dollars of apple hardware for a large research institute and the fact was the institute was split right down the middle with researchers almost always buying Macs and the public facing and business units almost always going or being forced into windows.
Fun times but I don't miss em...
Gotta agree with ya... Apple and ever more so Steve has always demanded secrecy till the day a a product rollout... This fine for home users and perhaps tolerable for 'small shops' however a company with tens of thousands of workstations this just doesn't fly. They have a real business need to know what they will be buying for at least 18 months ... Even that would be less than optimal for most CIOs.
Apple also has this neat habit of killing an existing model DEAD as soon as a successor is rolled out.... Believe it or not MOST if not ALL big corporations will continue to buy 'old stuff' for over a year while they properly evaluate the new hardware for deployment. Having the rug pulled out at ZERO days notice is just too maddening for big institutions.
In a previous life I've purchased millions of dollars of apple hardware for a large research institute and the fact was the institute was split right down the middle with researchers almost always buying Macs and the public facing and business units almost always going or being forced into windows.
Fun times but I don't miss em...
Under Jobs, Apple never supported legacy technology. To all those who bet against him and those who doubted him, here's a nugget of information. A decade ago, Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy when Jobs returned to Apple. Now, Apple is sitting on $81 billion in cash and they are the most valuable technology company in the world.
Apple may be making inroads in the enterprise market, but IMO, they should draw the line on certain things. One of those is supporting legacy technology. Apple has never supported legacy technology and they shouldn't start.
