I read this article 20 years ago.
It’s got the same energy as the “year of the Linux desktop” meme. I think that the mobile space will be Apple-dominated first, then laptops will come later as the PC market naturally shrinks and starves off less-profitable players à la the current tablet market.
I’m guessing there’s a bit of source bias here. I’ll buy that Windows won’t be dominant in 10 years, but defaulting to Apple doesn’t seem backed by the data presented.
Yea, most enterprises that I know of are looking at VDI. I don’t think Apple has made any effort in that area?
Apple won’t dominate the corporate space because then they would have to support the corporate space. They know if they do that their products will be common, and they couldn’t charge the premium they do. Then the people that demand corporate support their Apple products wouldn’t be rebels sticking it to The Man. Would doctors and C-Level wannabes really feel special if they didn’t have to throw their weight around to get IT to accept Macs? If that common, dirty, IT troll just sauntered up from the basement with a fully supported Macbook Air ready to go, it would take all the “I feel SPECIAL” out of the experience. And that is what Mac users pay for.
Is that how apple users see themselves?
I’ve always seen them as gullible hipsters paying more than they need to because of the logo.
Unlikely…MS Office is still the default for many enterprises today. 365 Office online version is not convenient. OSX version is deliberately made worse to entice people to use Windows
Microsoft has done an excellent job achieving parity between Mac and Windows by making the Windows version worse, as well.
Google Docs is fast becoming the standard office suite in a lot of organizations.
Maybe for newer organisations.
But not for large oranisations. And when some jobs depend on creating the shiniest powerpoint presentation in the world, MS Office is unlikely to go away for now.
Not even Office anymore, theyve got multiple levels of ERP systems linked in a with Azure resources for doing lots of core business functionality and automation which is becoming more and more a requirement, i.e. if your business can’t send/receive EDI you can’t sell to most major stores like Walmart/Kroger/etc.
I hope so. Competition would make Windows a better product. Most of innovation that Windows has had in the last 10 years it’s all about getting telemetry and adding ads.
It would be good if the change was towards Linux, but it seems more likely the transition will be towards an increasingly restrictive Android, reflecting how phones have become people’s primary computing devices, so I’m not looking forward to it.
With the push to SaaS for so many enterprise apps you have a lot less lock in for windows as an OS.
