Apple vs Microsoft

scottharry

Hey take look at the video at microsoft.com/surface - now that is power marketing!!! 10/10 for this vid MS!! - love the way they're pulling their socks up and attempting to claw back from Apple. The fights on - if Windows 8 is slick and fluid software and not MS jerky anymore!

Ohh and the girlies are just gonna love that pink detachable keyboard!!

InsideInsurance

voucherforit wrote: »

Then you're going to be left with a choice between 2 tablets which are practically the same, but you have to pay a big premium for one because it's Apple. Sure Apple will still sell iPads, but I think they'll become a minor high end luxury player like they are in the PC market.

First of all, they are now the 5 larger vendor of computers and so not really a "minor high end luxury player" and unlike many of their competitors their sales are currently growning (obviously thanks to the success of the iPod, iPhone and iPad)

Secondly, you dont pay a premium simply because it is Apple. You pay a fair wack because they are higher end products that are well designed and (generally) pushing boundaries whilst remaining reliable.

Take the 2nd generation MacBook Air, it took 6 months + (which in the IT industry is equiv to years elsewhere) for any competitors to come out with anything close as an ultra portable. The first out was Sony and it was more expensive. Several competitors even admitted they were really struggling to get something of the same spec out at the same price.

The difference with Apple is that they simply don't play in the budget market. That doesn't automatically make their products expensive (reflecting a measure of value rather purely price)

mr_fishbulb

holypockets wrote: »

Its not really between Apple and Microsoft any more, its Apple V Google. Microsoft are so late in the game, its already over.

Not really. If you can manage the Microsoft devices with Group Policy, it's going to make IT departments a lot more receptive to using them.

InsideInsurance

The problem is that IT departments are already getting used to managing iPads - some statistic the other day had that 75% of executives now use them.

Certainly if on day one there had been the two options then MS would have had an advantage just as if MS had a decent phone offering then Blackberry probably wouldnt have gotten the hold on the corporate market that it did.

mr_fishbulb

InsideInsurance wrote: »

The problem is that IT departments are already getting used to managing iPads - some statistic the other day had that 75% of executives now use them.

Certainly if on day one there had been the two options then MS would have had an advantage just as if MS had a decent phone offering then Blackberry probably wouldnt have gotten the hold on the corporate market that it did.

They may be using them, but very little will be managed in the way a corporate desktop is managed. Apple have come a long way, but they still give security guys something to think about.

InsideInsurance

You havent tried to take an iPad out of the hands of a Chief Risk Officer have you?

johnnyboyrebel

As said earlier, it is really apple vs Google now. Microsoft may have a flush of success but then dissappear (then again, it may surprise us all!) Many will say its all about choice and I guess it is however personally the Android platform is just so much nicer to use than IOS on phones and tablets.

IOS is a very good OS but I always feel like it is just missing something, can never put my finger on it. Android has always been my choice.