From a Wiki article on Microsoft hardware: "The Microsoft Hardware
Group, commonly known as Microsoft Hardware, is a division of Microsoft
which designs and manufactures computer hardware, including a range of
input peripherals as well as the Xbox gaming console, Microsoft Surface
tablet, and Zune digital media player. It also produces drivers and
other software for integrating the hardware with Microsoft Windows and
other products. The group was originally created in 1982 to create a
mouse for use with Microsoft Word for DOS". Both IBM and Microsoft also
lean on hardware developers pretty hard to advise and influence the
direction of hardware development. Intel didn't always realize the
significance and possibilities of some of their own products.
In case you hadn't noticed, a modern Mac's hardware design looks very
much like a high end PC because it uses many of the same parts. Apple
needed to do that to hold costs down by taking advantage of the high
volume PC parts business.
You say schools are not corporate. That's the part you got 100% correct.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/17/2014 6:06 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
No it doesn't. Apple is a hardware company, MS is a software company
- so it's a comparison of apples and bananas. Apple has a poor
penetration in computes because they cost more - slaves who do just
one thing all day can use cheap s**tboxes and that's what they get.
The school where I work occasionally has had a huge increase in
teachers demanding that their new leased laptop be an Apple (as they
can due to a government policy anomaly), despite the Department and
School trying very hard to dissuade them. Not corporate but it
suggests that reasonably able employees who have the choice will
often choose… Phones and tablets are a much higher proportion but
that is very volatile of course. Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On 18/06/2014, at 12:47 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
I need only two things. I’m happy as pig in shit. <g>
Which also explains why Apple has near zero penetration in the
corporate world.
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