Hope those guys at KU aren't using their iPads to "control a nuclear power facility". The EULA, like most EULAs specifically prohibits that action.
Talking about a snow-ball effect ..
I'm working as IT for a 20k users company.
service:
- they don't come to you. you have to bring the laptop to them.
- Very often they tell you to wait a week or two till it's fixed.
connectivity:
- NO docking from apple.
- 300$ dockings from elsewhere... and even that requires you to connect more than one cable.
I can go on about working in the enterprise software...
you end up working with Fusion / remote desktop very often.
to make things clear:
I got MBP 13" retina, MBAir 13" and iMac at home.
and i think anybody who considers a MAC in an enterprise is naive ( i had some other words... but let's make it more polite...).
Wouldn't be surprise if apple cut Cisco a special deal![]()
When you quote the ENTIRE post that contains multiple points, your single question pretty much becomes invalid. Please don't quote the entire post.
Hope those guys at KU aren't using their iPads to "control a nuclear power facility". The EULA, like most EULAs specifically prohibits that action.
But what if they did? That doesn't change the fact Cisco see's enough of a positive impact to incorporate them in its network. I doubt a cut rate price would move a large company like Cisco if it was going to cause productivity or effeciency issues. I mean if Sysco offered a strictly kosher restaurant 90% on short ribs would that restaurant buy them just because it was a good deal? No, because doing so would ruin its business.
I'd love to get a Mac for work but that'll never happen in this company.
Yet another MR article glossed up with nice lipstick.One-quarter of Cisco's company-provided notebooks are Macs following that company's decision to allow employees to choose which platform they preferred.
Obviously they got a special deal. Everyone gets a special deal if they buy by the tens of thousands![]()
How many of those Macs are running Windows?
I assume you responded to my post because you like to postemoticons. I can't think of any other logical alternative reason. Please go back and read my post again. I said so what if Cisco got a discount, not I don't believe Cisco got a discount. See the difference there?
1 company for every 5000 companies have a Mac install-base over 20%. Big deal.
And why would they need to run Windows? Office? Office is on OS X.
Can you share what model(s) Cisco provides? 13" MBA like Amazon does? 15" MBP?There is no end to the number of IOS and iOS devices at Cisco. My team is actually 70% Mac. We are in a network operations role internally at Cisco.
-JaySin
The OSX native L2TP VPN client seems to work beautifully with Cisco's ASA gear -- are many people running something incompatible, like the dreadful Checkpoint foo?will have more and more support from VPN, etc.
Does Amazon count as a Linux vendor?Microsoft may have to bend and make Office for Mac part of their Office site license. You are out of your mind if you expect a 25% user base of Linux in any company other than a Linux vendor itself.
Do we know for sure that *everyone* gets to choose? I wouldn't be surprised if there are departments where management dictates despite central IT allowing Apple gear.If folks were truly given a choice, I'm surprised that only 1 out of 4 picked Macs. So much for those who who insist that Windows market penetration is so high only because it's forced on people in the enterprise segment.
Vendor staff means ... contractors? Employees of other companies (like recruiters or travel agents) who are sited in-house?As has been mentioned, Macs are a choice for full time employees so the % breakdown is about 25-30% overall but near 50% in the FTE user base as vendor staff are not eligible to choose a Mac.
Unless one is an executive, this is what I've seen with MS-OS laptops within even small-to-mid organizations. For me, being able to take my MBP to any Apple store is priceless compared to having to ship it off to IT somewhere in another state.I'm working as IT for a 20k users company.
service:
- they don't come to you. you have to bring the laptop to them.
That would be fast for many MS-OS corporate IT departments.- Very often they tell you to wait a week or two till it's fixed.
Apple doesn't offer an SMD disk controller either, which is just as unimportant. In 2014, who really cares about docking? Docks are an anachronism from the days when laptops had small displays with 400x600 pixels, before ubiquitous WiFi. Back in the day when I was stuck with a Dell Latitude CPi A I had a dock that I pretty much never used. The stand that came with it was handy for holding up my CRT, though.connectivity:
- NO docking from apple.
- 300$ dockings from elsewhere... and even that requires you to connect more than one cable.
I'm sure Scotty and Spock have a handle on that.I can go on about working in the enterprise software...
I only have to fire up Fusion when connecting ISO images to the service processors on old servers, or on the increasingly rare occasions when I come across an AlbumWrap archive.you end up working with Fusion / remote desktop very often.
No company gets huge discounts on Apple, it's just not done as much as it used to back in the 80's and 90's. Apple, like everyone else, dropped the list prices and took away the margins for the resellers because the resellers would discount them regardless, so having a huge margin for the retailer didn't really make any sense if they were going to give deep discounts