makingadifference

danvm said:

mcdave said:

ITGUYINSD said:

rezwits said:

I mean if you want to say, "Well iOS isn't macOS or iOS is not a REAL OS.  Well I got news for you, we've been saying the same thing about Windows for quite some time now.  And really I would almost say iOS is much more comparable to Windows 10, than macOS at this point.  macOS is akin Linux as is Android honestly...

I mean if I had some client or family member say they were looking at getting. a really nice machine (especially "starting out"), I would say:  "Well you like the iPhone right?  What about a nice 12.9" with 512 (4GB RAM) or 1TB (6GB RAM), a pencil and your choice of 3-4 keyboards?  for under $2,000?  I honestly would be WAAAY happier if they choose that, because I wouldn't have to worry, very much about anything...  you could push them off on their own and they would be just fine.  Give them a Windows 10?!?  are you kidding me?!?  But purely when iOS 13 hits, then that's that, iOS 13 ~= Window 10... (if we even want to give Windows that much credit :P )

This is some of the funniest stuff I've read in a long time!  Have you even USED Windows 10 lately?  Probably not.  You do realize that >80% of all computers run Windows?  And it's not a real OS?  Yet you consider iOS, which has no mouse support, a real OS?  If you travel outside your little box and imagine the world's office workers all sitting in front of mouse-less iPads and tiny keyboards, trying to do their daily work, how many of them would be thrown out the window or in the trash?  Currently, the iPad is NOT a replacement for a computer.  Someday, maybe.  I want to use my iPad Pro as my travel laptop, but lack of apps and no mouse support is a deal breaker.   I was excited to hear there was some form of mouse compatibility with the new iPadOS, but turns out you can't really do much with it other than click on something.  

I use Windows 10 (current build) everyday and it’s still a joke as a graphical OS and can’t be taken seriously at all for touch - it’s borderline fraudulent.
Like most other professional, office-based workers, I didn’t decide on Windows and would use a Mac or iPad Pro in a heartbeat. The decision to use Windows was made by people who have no clue what business productivity is.  Given the BYOD/user-chosen tech stats I suspect most of those 80% Windows users would rather not be.
If you could leave the 80s behind for a moment, you’d realise few people need a mouse (or local filesystem access). If only Corp IT would listen to its customers, we’d trade our total IT spend for a bunch of iPads + in-house software so we could leave our desks & do our real jobs rather than be chained to those desks by that disastrous desktop OS.

Do you want to replace desktop PC's with iPads to work for 8-hours?  I don't think most customers would replace their 23"+ screen for a 12.9" screen with an awful keyboard, and a touchscreen in vertical position, as you would do with iPad.  Even Apple think touch screen in vertical position is a bad idea.  Federighi  said in an inverview "We really feel that the ergonomics of using a Mac are that your hands are rested on a surface, and that lifting your arm up to poke a screen is a pretty fatiguing thing to do," he said.
https://www.wired.com/story/wwdc-2018-federighi-ios-apps-on-macos/

Do you really think users want that experience?

Second, have you consider why most IT choose Windows over Apple?  One example is Apple lack of business / enterprise management tools for their own devices.  At least Jamf and even MS are doing something to fix this.  Another thing IT consider is ecosystem, and MS is miles ahead of Apple.  MS business / enterprise ecosystem is huge, MS Office, MDM. databases, virtualization, ERP, collaboration, ECM, Azure, and the list goes on.  if Apple had a similar ecosystem\, IT would have consider them for more than just iOS devices.  

Maybe IT is not the one to blame in your workplace for the lack of Apple devices.