Re: Mac advocacy again: Springer changes to Mac

In article <rIWdnTXTWv7mcvPVnZ2dnUVZ_vjinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Timberwoof 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.

Over the years I have learned to be distrustful of business majors and
lawyers who think they can build a business by hiring "routine HR,
finance, IT, Sales/Distribution, types of jobs" and ignoring the
creative staff. I wonder how they think they can get anything done.

Maybe you can explain to use why O'Reilly went to all OS X for their
operation.

Do you have proof of that? As I understand it, they let users choose
what they want - Linux, Windows, OS X.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/05/mac-pcs-in-the-corporate-marke.html
(see last sentence)

Hm. That's news ... recent news. The last I read was what I said. It's
hard to find the specific article where they said that, for O'Reilly
publishes a lot of books about OS X, and they're what show up on
searches. Three cheers for you: You get to score a debating point.

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