education
05/03/2004, 7:35am, EDT
Monday, May 3rd
Arlington, VA public schools move away from Macs
A memo from the Office of the Superintendent of the Arlington Public Schools says that the company will move to a predominantly PC platform, while "Macintosh computers will be retained for specialized applications such as the Arts curriculum, the iLife suite including iMovie and Special Education. I found persuasive the conclusions that in the absence of any particular advantage or disadvantage to instructional effectiveness or to teaching staff, the move to one predominant platform will result in lower costs (both in direct outlays and in opportunity costs to enhanced services) and to more effective and efficient technical support services."
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In these days of falling education budgets, it makes SO much sense to steathfully triple your IT budget.
The question remains: Where is Apple through all this?
Where is Apple? They're off making a new set of dancing iPod user commercials to tell everyone how they're "providing music fans with the best digital experience on Mac or PC."
Market share? Who cares about market share? Look, we have DANCING IPOD USERS!
And when apple gets surpassed in the music market, you'll be whining that they spent too much time ignoring the iPod and such, and now they've become also-rans. You make it seem like these people can't do more than one thing at a time.
And, that report was full of so many inaccuracies and half-truths that it's not funny.
Oh Well, one more "cost savings through unified platform" BS - once they get hit with one virus/worm, the cleanup cost will erase any cost savings.
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http://www.macnn.com/news/23026
But the hill may be just took hard to climb with so many Dell/MSFT developers and environments in business and government locations. It may or may not be Apple's intention to seriously move into these markets but for now I'm happy with my OSX box and Apple's digital video software. Perhaps if Apple commands the entertainment industry some years down the line, perhaps they will start to overflow into the business community and eventually see their marketshare tick up.