Well, I don't really care what IBM thinks. IBM may just have gotten a sweet deal from Apple like "You (IBM) endorse our products, we (Apple) will give you a shitload of Macbooks for next to nothing (or for the price of comparable, regular priced hardware at least)". We don't know. Btw, Apple has been doing exactly that with filmmakers for product placement in their movie and TV productions for decades (just google "apple product placement").
What do product placements and ads have to do with studies? I don't think you even care about numbers. Or the classic "it's rigged" argument comes out immediately when the numbers show a different reality. What does IBM have to even gain from rigging numbers for Apple? Don't you think that their image as an honest consultancy is far more important to them than helping out another company for some illicit cash? You're actually suggesting that? And how would they even hide this from their own employees? Do you think they would furthermore ever even consider sacrificing their own employee's productivity for a "sweet deal" from Apple?
Sure..... whatever you say.
People who don't actually care or want to allow numbers that contradict them into their reality, always seem to gravitate immediately to delusion and conspiracy instead of accepting the truth of the numbers that are in front of them.
So if you would just assume that the numbers are true, at least for a nanosecond, wouldn't you want to rationally own a Mac for significantly better productivity?
Also, I don't force my wife to do anything. She decides what hardware she gets from a list of possible hardware that her employer supplies and then buys for her. Furthermore I don't know how you come to believe that my wife needs any kind of tech support from me. She is a professional consultant in automotive software development and works for a German car company. She certainly doesn't need support from me. I hope that was not some kind of "woman don't know anything about tech" remark!
Don't worry, I always encourage women and my own girlfriend to be more tech-savvy. I'm just surprised how involved you seem to be in
her personal notebook buying decision. Don't tell me that she didn't at least feel a bit obliged to maybe go against her own self-interest just to not hear the bitching about it for the next 10 years if she did go against your hate for Macs and buy a Mac.
And that's based on your opinion of him or does like more than 50% of the world also share that opinion? Yeah keep that BS to yourself, Gandhi didn't get a
Nobel peace prize & Henry
(ef)F(in) Kissinger did ~ what does that tell you
I don't know how old you are, but Milton Friedman is widely acknowledged as the most famous economist of our lifetime. The fact that most people don't know any other economist's name than his speaks volumes. Usually, I wouldn't even have to argue this. But you seem too young to even know who he was... Not to mention that he just died in 2006. Here's a quote from the Federal Reserve's economic journal on his 90th birthday:
"
If asked to name a famous economist, most Americans would probably say Milton Friedman. Economists usually make their contributions behind the scenes at think tanks, government agencies or universities. Friedman has done that, but he also has taken his ideas and policy proposals directly to his fellow citizens through books, magazine columns and, especially, television.
It is not an exaggeration to say he has been the most influential American economist of the past century. He has changed policy not only here at home but also in many other nations, as much of the world has moved away from economic controls and toward economic freedom."
Source:
https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research/ei/ei0202.pdf
I doubt they write this for anyone.
I'm surprised you're staking your forum cred on someone you don't even know.
Forum cred? Ok, you must really be young if you care about these things. Not to offend you because you're young. Just because you're ignorant and probably easily manipulated if you're young.
With the events unfolding right in front of your eyes, over last so many decades, you'd have to be either blind or
willfully ignorant to see what (unfettered) Capitalism has done! I'm betting the latter
If you think this, it just proves that you have no idea about capitalism. Or history. Again, I really don't want to get into an argument about capitalism. There's still that interview with him that I posted if you care to listen to an actually good and important economist. But if you still don't want to listen because you don't care, at least stop spreading this trash around the internet like a mindless socialist zombie.
So you don't actually know any figures huh
Do you think you can trust any numbers coming out of China? How naive can you be? Everything gets changed and manipulated before it comes out of their mouth. You can't trust anything a one-party-system spews out. It's like trusting what either the Democrats or Republicans would say about their own job if the other party just disappeared. If it's already this bad in America, I don't want to know how bad the manipulation of information is that comes out of China.
Nope, they were ass holes. Doing everything to waste your time outside your working hours. I can also tell the difference between paying me more and not treating me like crap, thank you very much.
Continue living in denial. It's your freedom, I guess.
That's not relevant to me writing an essay in a class in high school
Wait, how are you still in high school and working for all these companies around the world? You even said that you grew up in New Zealand and are still in high school there. How can you possibly know so much about what other factories pay and the conditions in them? Sounds like a young troll trying to say anything positive about China without possibly being able to say anything real with first-hand experience. Where are you getting the number about wages of Chinese companies compared to Foxconn? From those trustworthy Chinese statistics? Trusting your word on this makes no sense.
Claims from an IBM employee at a conference for Apple IT admins =/= a study.
"There are 22% more macOS users who exceeded expectations in performance reviews, compared to Windows users."
Correlation does not imply causation. What's to say that the Mac users weren't already higher performing and just happen to prefer Macs to PC?
"High-value sales deals tend to be 16% larger for macOS users, compared to Windows users."
Correlation does not imply causation. Again, we have no way of knowing that it's the Macs that are leading to these higher-value sales.
"macOS users are 17% less likely to leave IBM, compared to those who use Windows."
Correlation does not imply causation. Are you sensing a pattern here? You can't conclude that Macs are the reason that people are less likely to leave IBM.
"MacOS users are happier with the third-party software availability within IBM — just 5% of macOS users ask for additional software, compared to 11% of Windows users."
And...wait for it...correlation does not imply causation. With Windows making up a significantly larger percentage of the worldwide OS usage (
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide), it can be assumed that developers are more likely to develop programs compatible with Windows. Larger target audience means greater downloads/sales. Less third party software options to choose from could certainly yield less requests for 3rd party software on the Mac side of things.
This was actual fucking research! I can't believe you couldn't even do a google search for it before posting this drivel back. This is not a fucking opinion. You don't buy another 200.000 Macs purely based on an opinion. They happened to have the perfect conditions for a study like this with around the same use of Mac and PC across the company at the time of the study. Who else is doing the research?
More articles on this:
Forrester Research and IBM Studies Show Macs Are Cheaper than PCs
"Although the Forrester Research study found that the upfront acquisition cost of Macs was indeed $500 higher than comparable PCs, when additional factors were taken into account, Macs ended up costing about $50 less."
IBM Announces Research Showing Mac Enables Greater Productivity and Employee Satisfaction at IBM
"Findings affirm that offering choice delivers strategic value in addition to IT efficiency and lower total cost of ownership"
Latest IBM Study Confirms Apple's Mac Are Better Than Windows In IT Workplace
"IBM started to embrace the Mac platform and other Apple systems when it launched the Mac@IBM scheme in 2015. During that deployment, IBM has seen over 1,900 Mac devices deployment per week. By 2016, IBM had amassed more than 90,000 Mac machines deployed."
