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Apple’s first-quarter earnings report revealed a mixed performance. While overall sales increased by 4%, iPhone sales showed weakness, particularly in China, where they declined by over 11%. CEO Tim Cook attributed this partly to the lack of Apple Intelligence in China and inventory changes. However, the Mac, iPad, and Services categories saw significant growth, with Services up 14% and both the Mac and iPad up 15%. The company reported $36.33 billion in net revenue, a 7.1% increase from the previous year.
There’s absolutely no way organizations are replacing Windows computers with Macs that would be an insane thing to do.
There was very poor corporate support for Mac OS, a cheap Dell is always going to be a better proposition for large-scale deployment, people know how to use Windows computers, corporate software generally isn’t cross OS compatible because traditionally that has never been a requirement, and it would require upgrading all of the server backend and rewriting all the knowledge articles.
It just straight up isn’t going to happen.
That’s a rather bold statement to make, especially considering I have headed one of those large-scale deployments. IBM has over 100,000 Macs, up 50% from their previous deployment goal. There are plenty of Mac deployments in the 4 and 5 digit range. I work on several a year!
Specialist industries have the most trouble switching, but legacy apps are less of a problem these days. Most are either a web app already or slated to become one, largely because mobile has made cross-compatibility a requirement. Things like CAD are the exception because they need native clients and aren’t mobile centric.
Backend changes usually aren’t the bottleneck for cross-compatibility, if their app was written with decoupling in mind (thank you Agile). Throw that out the window if it’s some ancient SOAP monolith. They have bigger problems than their choice of user OS.
Assuming your instance name implies you are in the EU, things are just different for IT over there. The cost savings from adopting Macs can’t materialize given the conditions.