Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 31st Mar 2008 22:40 UTC
"Windows' enterprise adoption declined in 2007, with the gains going to Linux and Mac OS. Vista is a bust. Forrester published the data on Thursday, but only released it publicly today. Forrester surveyed a whopping 50,000 users at 2,300-plus large to very large enterprises throughout 2007. Windows' enterprise adoption declined 3.7 percent, going from 98.6 percent in January to 94.9 percent in December. Mac OS gained 3 percent, going from 1.2 percent to 4.2 percent in the same time frame. Linux gained 0.5 percent in 2007." A classic case of 'do with it as you please'.
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2006-12-16
Wintermute summed up the answer so nicely. Apple is not a nice company. As an ex Apple Australia employee, my memories of them are not fond, both as a company, and as a purveyor of products. The phrases "rotten to the core" or "bad apple" spring to mind.
Apple sues anyone who looks at them sideways, hell, I'm sure Steve Jobs would sue a Fly on a wall in the dunny for supposed trade secret infringements!
Apple is a huge supporter of DRM, has used and abused open source in the past (KHTML), it's a nasty company that despite some nice products, deserves to go bankrupt for being so anti competitive and nasty.
As an end user, I have non fond memories of Apple's supposed warranty on the 2nd gen iPod mini battery issues - basically being forced to agree to their TOC - i.e. if they can't fault it they'll charge me over AU $100 for testing it! If you don't agree to those TOC, they won't service it. Nice eh? I didn't bother fighting this in court, but I should have, and there's no way Apple Australia would have won. The other issue was postal costs, Apple wanted to charge over AU $22 for that privilege, where I could have sent the damn item back registered post with a signature required and insurace for half that cost. In Australia, that is illegal under the Trade Practices Act 1974. Apple Australia had a tonne of complaints against it with the ACCC for the exact same thing, and the ACCC was not impressed with them for making life difficult. Typical Apple.
A company deserves to be in business based on how it treats it customers, on that aspect, Apple should be bankrupt imho.
Dave