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Key Enterprise Executive Leaves Apple

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John Solomon, Apple's vice president for enterprise and government, left the company recently, Apple confirmed to Reuters. Solomon sold Apple products to major businesses and government entities.

Prior to joining Apple in 2015, Solomon was a longtime Hewlett-Packard executive who ran the company's global consumer printing business. According to Reuters, it is not immediately clear if Solomon's departure will have an impact on Apple's enterprise business, nor is it known why he left the company.

Since 2014 when it inked a deal with IBM, Apple has been ramping up its enterprise efforts to sell more products to big businesses. By partnering with IBM, Apple has been able to help businesses build custom iOS applications, and through a 2016 partnership with Cisco, Apple's iPhones work better on commonly used Cisco networking gear.

Apple has also inked enterprise deals with SAP and Deloitte, with both partnerships aimed at developing the tools and integrations necessary to make it easy for companies to adopt iOS devices and Macs.

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No enterprise customer in their right mind would use Apple products no matter how good they are. Apple has no loyalty to its customers, thats bad for business, bad for long time users, but great for teenagers and popular artists/fashion want-a-be's.
 
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nt5672 said:
No enterprise customer in their right mind would use Apple products no matter how good they are. Apple has no loyalty to its customers, thats bad for business, bad for long time users, but great for teenagers and popular artists/fashion want-a-be's.
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I worked for a Fortune 100 company and all the leadership, executives, and network engineers used MacBooks. Every employee that was given a company phone had an iPhone too.
 
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nicroma said:
I worked for a Fortune 100 company and all the leadership, executives, and network engineers used MacBooks. Every employee that was given a company phone had an iPhone too.
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Until our company (Fortune 500) was bought by a slightly bigger company (also Fortune 500), everyone in our company used Mac computers. But everyone at the bigger company used PCs. So we had to give up our Macs. :(Ironically, the IT department went from about 6 people to over 30...THIS is IT departments dirty little secret and why they love PCs so much...job security!!!
 
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nt5672 said:
No enterprise customer in their right mind would use Apple products no matter how good they are. Apple has no loyalty to its customers, thats bad for business, bad for long time users, but great for teenagers and popular artists/fashion want-a-be's.
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Say what we will, but Macs have one particularly great feature that does make them terrific work machines: one "box" can run both Windows and MacOS together and natively. That's ONE laptop in the bag to cover both sides of corporate worlds instead of potentially needing to lug along two computers just in case. Love MacOS, love "thinner", love USB3C and/or dongles, love butterfly keys, love iDevices, etc, etc... but for the corporate worker or multi-client-serving owner of a work Mac, Bootcamp may just be the killer app.

In other threads some of us so covet the day that Intel gets ejected and Apple custom-A chips take over (though for what exactly (benefits us consumers) is always unclear) but that will likely be the day that this 2-for-1 working consumer utility begins to quickly fade... and is not a day I personally covet. There's no way around the reality that about 90%+ of the world uses Windows and if you want working computers and applications fully compatible with clients & companies, you have to have a ready way to use Windows as they need it from you. Apple delivered a way to have your cake (MacOS, etc) and eat it too (still have 100% Windows compatibility when you need it). Short of hack-a-rama, there's no better way to do that.

Those of us who are overly Apple-centric and/or don't really use our Apple tech for work with various clients probably can't really appreciate bootcamp. But those who are actually "out there" and DO need to connect to stuff that requires Windows or do need to run stuff that only runs on Windows or do need easy access to files produced on software that only runs on Windows appreciate having the alternative OS in the same box, ready to launch whenever it's needed.
 
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I don't remember reading about him selling his millions of stocks like Cook. I suppose he did.
 
apppen1 said:
He couldn't make the next Macbook Pro thin enough.
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Apple forgot about him when their closed down the server and enterprise division. He was still on the payroll and the glitch has been rectified (Office Space: The Movie) :)
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JosephAW said:
I don't remember reading about him selling his millions of stocks like Cook. I suppose he did.
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Payroll glitch.
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SeattleMoose said:
Until our company (Fortune 500) was bought by a slightly bigger company (also Fortune 500), everyone in our company used Mac computers. But everyone at the bigger company used PCs. So we had to give up our Macs. :(Ironically, the IT department went from about 6 people to over 30...THIS is IT departments dirty little secret and why they love PCs so much...job security!!!
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Plus the workforce of the new company increased, need more IT to resolve all those bugs.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
You know what businesses want? Because it's not overpriced laptops that are ultra thin and under powered.
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You're speaking for yourself and pretending it's for everyone. My business wants those things -- MBPs aren't overpriced, have a lower TCO (google it), and the best fit and finish in the biz. Their slimness makes them lighter and excellent for travel, but they're still great development machines. Best portables on the market.
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nt5672 said:
No enterprise customer in their right mind would use Apple products no matter how good they are. Apple has no loyalty to its customers, thats bad for business, bad for long time users, but great for teenagers and popular artists/fashion want-a-be's.
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Total nonsense. As POSIX certified UNIX machines, MBPs beat the hell out of Windoze notebooks. Network guys and coders love em.
 
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MH01 said:
Shock horror....an apple business partner making such a statement... ;)

P.S Microsoft business partners claim PCs are cheaper in the long run.

Not exactly impartial PR statements there.....
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They doubled their savings estimate and have nearly 100,000 using Macs. That's a pretty significant number.
 
SeattleMoose said:
Until our company (Fortune 500) was bought by a slightly bigger company (also Fortune 500), everyone in our company used Mac computers. But everyone at the bigger company used PCs. So we had to give up our Macs. :(Ironically, the IT department went from about 6 people to over 30...THIS is IT departments dirty little secret and why they love PCs so much...job security!!!
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Are you proactively helping your workplace make yourself unnecessary?

With all due respect, that wouldn't seem very smart, especially as THEY are good enough at cutting jobs typically, why help them.

Glassed Silver:win

PS: I take it you may work in a position typically considered not easily slimmed or automated, but I think you get the gist.
 
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