Re: Mac advocacy again: Springer changes to Mac

In article <2uydnQMfRK_ovvLVnZ2dnUVZ_o7inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mike wrote:
In article <a-SdnWr5qaZ_WfPVnZ2dnUVZ_szinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Timberwoof wrote:
In article <baidnd-wU5XcKPPVnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dave Fritzinger wrote:
Here's a bit of Mac advocacy for the US Independence Day.

http://tinyurl.com/68ajad

From the article:

In a YouTube video, posted below the fold, CEO Mathias Döpfner lists
four reasons for the change:

Most of the company¹s layout work was already being done on Macs
Macs are more user friendly than other computers
Apple creates the most elegant computers
Macs are cheaper to buy and easier to maintain than they were in the
past
--
Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI
It also said they'll be running OS X, Windows Vista and Windows XP on
these machines, so basically they have just added an additonal OS to
support.

"Apple creates the most elegant computers". Wow, I'm glad he's not
the CEO of my company.
Wow, I'm glad I'm not working for your. Springer Verlag is a publishing
company. That means they make books and magazines. That is an industry
in which elegance should be valued. If I had a staff of imaginative,
creative people, I'd rather inspire them with an elegant work
environment, including their computers, than pen them up in a drab cube
farm with Windows.
They're going to be using Windows too. Just on Macs.

I don't see the business justification spending more on tools
(computer hardware) just because of their looks. I wonder what
percentage of their employees are actually involved in the
"imaginative, creative" stuff you imagine, and how many are in routine
HR, finance, IT, Sales/Distribution, types of jobs.

Steve

I suppose one might just say from your comments you're just not a
"creative type" who appreciates the work environment as well as the
tools they work with.

Have you ever been around "creatives" in the process of their work to
see how "ideas", the guts of an ad, layout come together? I'd be will
ing to think you like drab, period.

I worked for years in a radio station, choosing the music played,
producing programs, etc.

Steve, that's not what is considered "creative" work and you don't need
a computer to do it either, other than to keep a file list of the
content available.

IF you were creating content, that would be a different story, but you
weren't.

We certainly didn't pick tools we used for
how they looked or felt. A work computer is just a tool that sits on
their desk. I'd rather have a more comfortable chair, or nicer lighting.

The chair and/or lighting come after the tools.

IOW, thanks for admitting you're not a "creative type" who appreciates
such things.


Steve
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Mike
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