Cook was making inroads with IBM. He really needs to keep pushing forward with the business market. There's definitely demand there for getting rid of the PCs and using Macs. It's become vastly more acceptable and wanted.
There is no space in the business world for machines that have to update on the vendor's schedule and run the OS version the vendor tells you is the latest.
If El Capitan breaks some custom app an intern wrote 10 years ago and Apple won't let the company buy a new computer with Mountain Lion that will support that App, then Apple is just not viable in the enterprise. And on a larger scale, if everyone at the company is using Mountain Lion and they need to add new machines, they better also be Mountain Lion until the company is ready to migrate. You don't force all your users onto a new OS with all the transition pains when it's not necessary.
And it should go without saying these older OSes need security updates for the enterprise clients.
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Overall it looks like the winners here are Apple and Dell. Apple is seeing slightly more worldwide sales and slightly less US sales. Dell the reverse.
We all know why Apple is doing so well. But Dell? How are they still doing so well?
Dell offers everything from Ultrabooks to solid business machines with lots of ports and performance to high end gaming machines. They offer $300 flimsy plastic laptops for students and $3000 business laptops with a more solid build than Apple. They offer fairly cheap displays and 4k displays at a premium price and they offer them in Matte and Glossy. They offer laptops with user swappable batteries, ram, and hard drives. They offer laptops with optical drives and without.
Apple offers cute little ultrabooks with a pretty nice build and all the performance traded off in the name of size and cuteness. Apples are great for their market segment, but they only target a very narrow slice of the market while Dell makes something for everyone.
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