OctoMonkey

FileMakerFeller said:

danvm said:

netrox said:

Discover a trick to save money... IT staff hates Apple for this!

I don't think that IT hates Apple.  Is just that companies like MS have an ecosystem for business / enterprises that companies like Apple don't offer.  

Were you not around for the OS wars of the 1990s?

Back then, one of the other engineers would bring me Dilbert strips which were Mac related.  I had that one hanging in my office for years!

robin huber said:

Must agree with the test case of the TV remote. Even WTH a silicone case on it I am constantly invoking Siri when I pick it up. 

One of these days I am going to disassemble that remote and disable the button!

JDwyer said:

Didn't Samsung do this on the Galaxy years ago, and adoption didn't go well?

Also, OctoMonkey raises an excellent point, which I agree with-- but what if the bar only activated when lying face down or back down?

What if you are laying down talking on your phone?

danox said:

danvm said:

netrox said:

Discover a trick to save money... IT staff hates Apple for this!

I don't think that IT hates Apple.  Is just that companies like MS have an ecosystem for business / enterprises that companies like Apple don't offer.  

IT will if Apple starts offering solutions for small to medium size businesses, but Microsoft is entrenched in that area along with companies like Dell, and HP, at the company I worked for there was always a crisis, every two weeks split half-and-half between users, and the IT department itself for who was at fault.

Nearly 2 decades ago the company I then worked for decided to replace our NetWare and MPE/iX servers with Windows.  It was a horrible decision in every way.  Newer and far more powerful hardware ran significantly slower (for the end user), and the cost (both initial and ongoing) was eye watering.  My company had developed many custom programs for the HP mainframe which worked exactly as the management wanted.  The Windows replacement was just generic and no matter how much "customization" was implemented, never performed nearly as well.

The Windows love in the IT world is something I just do not understand.

Gads!  A touch bar on the side of the phone?  Imagine the hand contortions to try holding the phone while not hitting the touch bar icons.

The stupid button on the side of the AppleTV remote is bad enough!