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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
Heh, I used to hear that all the time, except it was IBM, not Apple. Mostly from the various IT departments I've worked with over the years. Never worked for an IT department, I've always been on the production/maintenance side of manufacturing plants developing SCADA systems and the like.
Strangely, although I had more networking and other credentials than most of the IT people in the companies I worked for, my advice was never heeded and the mess left from ITs involvement was somehow mine to fix.
I was always left wondering if you needed a IBM tattoo in a sensitive area and a partial lobotomy to work in IT at those companies.
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No, just an avoidance of pain. I
have worked in those sort of IT depts for 30 years. Nothing like a billion dollars hanging fire and company x say company y has bad firmware and company y says company x is full of it. And the CEO says it
your job on the line....
If it's all one company, they can't pass the buck. (except in the PC world, where they
always pass the buck to the user...)
When it's just something in my private life, I can work around compatibility issues or get other software, it's usually not time critical. In business it usually is time-critical...
Apple is emulating IBM in a way. They offer only the choices that best maximise their profit margins, but make them work well. Apple then insists that this is the only way to do things, and the users have a good experience, so the users beleive that Apple works in their best interest, and they didn't really need anything more.
Worked for Big Blue in the mainframe world...