GasBandit
Staff member
... from the tech blog of an intellectually dishonest british "mobile expert" who's crowing that there are now more Apple computers being sold than windows computers.
The kicker? He's including mobile devices in that figure. Phones and tablets. iPhones and iPads.
I said,
The kicker? He's including mobile devices in that figure. Phones and tablets. iPhones and iPads.
I said,
To which he replied -Desktop PCs and smartphones are apples and oranges. Our Accounting dept is not doing payroll on an iPad. Our broadcast studios couldn't run on pretty much anything Apple sells. Furthermore, I've never bought a "Windows pc" for my home. I have, however, assembled dozens from parts - a common practice among the tech-savvy that probably don't get considered when figuring "Windows PCs sold."
Apple just continues to be the best seller of shiny plastic and bright lights to people who don't actually need a computer to do their job, which granted, is most people.
And IMMEDIATELY blocked me from replying. Of course, I didn't discover this until after disqus let me type out and submit all of the following of my reply:I was going to delete this as a trolling post, but actually it's worth leaving up as an illustration of bow badly people can misunderstand an industry. The self-built PC market is truly tiny, while the idea that all computing is for is accounting and video editing really ought to have died 20 years ago. Have you heard of the web?
Little did even I know how fragile and dishonest, eh? What a hack.Sorry to burst your bubble, but I am "the industry." I'm the IT director for an independent radio broadcasting LLC, supporting ~50 users. Sure, half the sales force has iphones, (the other half Android devices) but they're used as mere facebook and e-mail platforms (aside from the obvious SMS and telephony). There's two (2) macbooks in the whole building. Apart from that, our commercial traffic systems, our broadcasting automation systems, our audio production systems, our music scheduling, our servers, and all desktop machines and laptops are windows systems. Anyone trying to do their job exclusively on mobile platforms would soon find themselves unemployed. When actual work needs be done, people still go into the office and sit down at the desk - where you won't find very many Macs. Our business couldn't function on Apple hardware, or any other handheld devices for that matter, except only painstakingly awkward via VNC client, perhaps - and that only because there's an actual Windows PC at the other end. The only real alternative to windows-based platforms on an enterprise level are Unix flavored. This has been the case at every position I've held in my 16 years in the industry.
The fact that you feel tempted to delete posts like this only speaks to the fragility of your assertion. Saying more Apple "computers" are being sold than windows "computers" and including mobile devices - even on both sides - is like saying Walmart is selling more food than CostCo, then revealing that pet food and alcohol were included in the figures. It's intellectually dishonest.
I'll be sure to let Newegg and Tigerdirect know their market is "truly tiny" so they should close up quick before they go bankrupt.