I can wholeheartedly attest to executives wanting one. My old boss
_demanded_ a Macbook. He had a Windows notebook and a Windows desktop in
his office, but all the cool kids had Macbooks, so he needed one too.
Wanted a iPhone, too but the IT guy couldn't figure out how to make it
work with our BES servers, so no go.
It was truly one of the most frustrating aspects of employment for me
there. The CEO retard (my boss) demanded the Macbook. The IT retard
couldn't make it work on our network, so he had to buy a ton of Airports
(I think that's what they were) and set them up, all so that useless
sack of shit could...read his (personal) email. Which he could have
done from the desktop or the laptop.
Do you hate the retard that has to have the toy, or the retard that has
to overspend to make it do a fraction of what it could, and what the
cheap commodity p.c.s do anyway?
I might have a complex, but I have a little bit of a thing about
executives that *want* to use Apple products. You automatically drop two
letter grades with me if the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny trendy stuff is the
priority with you.
Like I said, my first computer was an Apple IIe...but if I see you with
an Apple product in a business environment now, you'd better damn well
be working at Pixar or ILM. I'm not doing business with you otherwise.
And if you're one of those douchenozzles that carry two cell phones (and
one of them is an iPhone), you're not impressing anybody.
Christ, I'm glad I don't work there anymore. We spent $80,000 a year for
$10,000 worth of IT. Dear God it was bad.
On 3/8/2012 3:46 PM, PJ McGarvey wrote:
> You know Macs are catching on when large enterprises that take security very
> seriously are pushing for them. Why are they catching on? Well the surveys
> and polls I've read are b/c executives want them for one.... (your alarm bells
> should be going off right now) what else? (and this is directly from
> Forrester I recall) 1.) they look well made (brushed aluminum, and a polished
> design will do that) 2.) they aren't slowed down by all that annoying
> antivirus and protection software (I LOL at that one).
>
> -PJ
>
>> Although I would say that whether or not a Mac looks professional or not
>> depends entirely on the profession. Some places they're still very
>> much like holy water to vampires in an office environment. I.e., you
>> can't 'work' on it (even if you could). You bring a Mac into my office,
>> for example, and people are going to assume you've brought in your
>> personal laptop to screw around with your iTunes issues.
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