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Apple is once again the target of advertising attacks from its competitors. But now he doesn't have it in charge of Google, but Microsoft. With its Surface Pro 4 tablet, it pokes fun at the iPad Pro, claiming that it is not a "computer" as Apple itself presents it.
A short spot called "What's a Computer?" Jusk ask Cortana", loosely translated as "What is a computer? Ask Cortana", aims to show the public that the 12,9-inch iPad Pro is not a computer in terms of functionality and features. It refers to the campaign "What's a Computer?" and the slogan “Great. Computer.", which is how the largest Apple tablet is presented.
[su_pullquote align=”right”]Saying it's a computer doesn't make it a computer.[/su_pullquote]
Half a minute was enough for Cortana, the voice assistant on Microsoft devices, to highlight the important things that a good computer should have. For example, a powerful Inter Core i7 processor, a full version of the MS Office package, a trackpad and external ports. The Surface Pro 4 hides exactly these elements, the iPad Pro does not. In the caption of the video, there is the sentence that "saying it's a computer doesn't make it a computer".
Siri, the voice assistant on the iPad Pro, seemed quite friendly in the ad, but she took it hard from her rival. During the "conversation" she could only manage to have a keyboard. Then came only the addition that "Surface can do more." Same as you."
Everyone laughs at Apple because no one can match its quality.
Apple quality is long gone. Not like it used to be.
And how does it manifest itself? :D
They don't sleep, they just become lempls because they feel they can when they see the profits. And how does it manifest itself? E.g.:
– They present the amazing agility of their system and everything is slower than Woken – starting with boot.
– They claim that their system is great for companies, and at the same time they are able to leave an unfixed bug for a year, when Mail withholds some of your mail (a problem with Exchange)
– Let's stay with the corporate one – browsing network drives (i.e. via smb, but also afp) makes the Finder completely unusable. A folder whose content Windows loads in 2 seconds takes a Mac even several minutes to open (due to it indexing the entire content and creating its own metadata). It's a problem they've had for years and they're not doing anything about it. Hell in the corporate environment.
And so I could go on and on. Anyone who gets beyond the boundary of the average user begins to find that Apple engineers are increasingly incredibly arrogant. Just like Microsoft engineers were in the 90s…
Try forklift or mucommander, but you prefer Spyware10. :P
The only question is: "Why look for a 3rd party solution when OSX is such a mature and unrivaled system?"
OS X can do this natively, but it's not a system for idiots who don't read the manual...
So here I am not sure if we understand the same meaning of the word "native".
But we certainly do not understand the style of your expression. Have a nice day.
This explains the majority share of Windows in the corporate sector... Not everything you don't bite is a problem for others as well.
For children's diseases:
-Smb transfer since the implementation of SmbX (approx. 4 years?) has reached approx. 2 thousand files.
– The smb speed to any win server is approx. 150mb/s over a 10Gb network.
– If you print via a Windows print server, you will always see in the print statistics on the server that the client with OS X printed 0 pages (I have known about this bug for about 3 years, I solved it via bugreport and they got rid of it)
And what about iOS? For example: if you use Profile Manager, you enroll a device that you then restore from a backup and you want to enroll it again (enrollment profile is not backed up), from my experience 50% of the time it ends with an error and something like "error" in the server logo. I have known about this bug for about 4 years, I solved it via bugreport and guess what.
I can continue if you want. They really aren't a perfect system. But none, right?
I sometimes connect to the NAS (at home) via Samba, it's slow, but it's more like an old NAS, and I also have the integrity of all data checked. Samba is not very secure and I'm surprised it's used anywhere in a corporate environment.
Although iOS is based on UNIX, it is UNIX Like, a very stripped down OS X that is not suitable for any work deployment, many functions that work very easily on Android, you cannot run on iOS without JB or Tweak, but it is still better than WP /WM10.
As for perfection...it always depends on the point of view, I don't remember ever saying anything about a "perfect" system, at least for me the only alternative can be OS X as a Linux operating system, specifically UBUNTU (or one of the clones) for its simplicity, wide support and available wiki and how to.
Working with Windows and putting in any number and build is usually a punishment, stability is low, applications fall like pears, susceptibility to viruses (I'm not d3bil, so on the PCs I manage with Windows, I manage to avoid viruses, but I know what BFU PCs look like ). I see no reason to use Windows when Linux is available for free.
When you buy a Windows laptop, you usually get a bunch of bloatware pre-installed, it's slow, the UI is horrible.
With Mac, you have a complete office package included in the price, the resistance against viruses is luckily the same as with Linux, BFU can work with it automatically, everything is simpler, intuitive, cheaper to operate.
By the way, according to statistics, MBP is the most stable even with Windows, so if you want Widle and at the same time intend to achieve a reasonable level of stability, you end up relying on Apple hardware anyway.
Just remember what Nvidia GPU drivers have been doing recently...and also notice that there are almost no switchers from OS X to Windows. Whereas those who once switch from Widlí to OS X will not voluntarily return to Spyware10.
Today, SMB supports fully encrypted transmission (unlike AFP or NFS). I think Microsoft introduced it with Vista, or 7, OS X from ElCap. Which one do you think is safe?
Unfortunately, the fact that you buy a Win laptop with bloatware cannot be completely attributed to Microsoft (although it is partially). Today, however, it is common practice that in the price of around 30 CZK you get a relatively clean system. But yes, this is a huge ailment of Windows computers. Probably the biggest.
As far as stability is concerned, the company uses 30% OS X – 30% Win – 30% Linux (I mean workstations, not servers). In terms of stability, things are already balanced today (or the least stable are probably linux, but that's thanks to Autodesk et al., not RedHat, on which it all runs :) ).
Statistics are different. I read the opposite. My experience is that in this respect both systems are completely equally usable from Win 7 onwards. I've seen almost more OS X kernel panics than BSODs over the years.
The reason for using Win is the content - or from 90% of Office Office (and, unfortunately, in our case also Adobe's bazmek).
We can talk about how Office is a bloated package, but it is the standard. Compatibility with OpenOffice is relatively OK, but not 100%.
In addition, it abounds with functions that you will not find elsewhere and do not need elsewhere than in the Enterprise sphere. Example: at a security conference, I heard that statistically 70% of corporate data leaks are unwanted - understand, someone will send the document by mistake. Office, Win Server + Exchange allows, for example, to set that certain documents do not go to an address other than the domain address. Problem solved. Will you be using it at home or in a small business? Probably not, the price of this solution is in the hundreds of thousands to millions. But in the Enterprise sphere, this function can be priceless (Office on Mac still can't do this).
Another example: I have a Win machine in the AD domain, I write an employee's name in Word and it can automatically look at the domain, show me a photo, phone, supervisor, etc. Again, a function that I do not use anywhere else than in the company. And what about macros elsewhere than on Win? No way. In the enterprise deal-breaker (and think what we will about them).
Oh, and try to open "shared contacts" on OS X (under your login, reach into another user's contact folder). Why would you do that? Why not open one account under the same login on all machines? E.g. rights (the group will be read-only, so that you don't have to restore contacts 3 times a week from a backup - from practice). And if you have Exchange and you connect a lot of devices over time and don't even pick up the phone, what the hell does it start to do to you.
As for iWork, it's fine for home or a small business, I like it myself, but that's all. Things are missing in a large company, viz. above.
As for moving the user from Win to OS X. It's fine if the user does it voluntarily, but if he doesn't want to and he's just a megauser, it's a hell you can't imagine. It surprised me myself, I myself have always only witnessed the "wanted" switch. "I want" really plays a big role
Jojo, Win 10 and 4K is fine, but God forbid combine it with HiDiPi :D I don't understand either :) OS X is really ahead in this.
Corporations may have different requirements, in any case, I am most happy for any public administration institution that switches to open source. Lithuanian Police reportedly migrated to Ubuntu, now they've switched to Libre Office. That's a huge amount of money saved in license fees. I don't accept arguments that support is more expensive on Linux. In the past it was Munich, in the Czech Republic we can find a few villages that are open source, there is a school here and there... Ubuntu seems more and more advanced to me.
Also, Libre Office, I tried to work on it two years ago and how it went, but it rubbed off, although it can get better after a while. I agree that many features are not available in both iWork and Open Office/Libre Office compared to MS Office. The public administration does not have such demands that it cannot cope with it. On the other hand, when I run Libre Office under Ubuntu, nothing important is missing, so it's a good solution for a lot of people. Basic functionality ensured. Why pay for a license, even at home for MSO, when LO is free for everyone, a letter can be written in it, a seminar and homework too, a presentation can do it.
Because of what I wrote. Munich is already back on MS precisely because of compatibility with Office :)
I don't deal with state administration, that's a world unto itself. There, money is thrown out of the window to an extent unimaginable to an ordinary citizen.
OpenOffice is really enough for small and medium-sized companies, I completely agree with you on that. I install them myself on all "non-office" computers.
But as the company grows, it starts encountering problems that Microsoft can solve most elegantly. It's logical - they have the most experience in it and, above all, they get paid decently for it, so they have room for further development. Today, for example, the business sphere is much more important for Microsoft than the domestic sphere (which is the opposite of Apple). It has its own logic. The vast majority of people use what they use at work at home. They don't want to learn anything new.
What I am saying is my personal experience. My employer is exactly at that stage of rebirth, when the OpenOffice et al. it stops solving and we give it some order. And you would be surprised how difficult or expensive it is to get under some meaningful management of the cat. Their tools like NetInstall etc. are where Microsoft was in the XP days. And Casper Suite costs more than Windows Server from Microsoft, which has it in it and in the end can do even more.
Munich is still on Linux, according to Czech sources, and when the media reported about the alleged return to MS, there was nothing to be found on foreign websites either.
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has switched from Linux to MS.
Overall, OSS users are also increasing in public administration, Lithuania, Spain, Poland...
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2423164/munich-officials-are-sick-of-linux-and-want-windows-back
You are probably right about Munich, I must have confused it with the Germans...
Anyone who has ever had anything to do with the state administration knows what they use there and how Linux is made.
I'm really rooting for them in this. Already because it can help speed up further development and thus the ability to compete with Microsoft and Apple.
But the fact is that the state administration as such has its own specifics that facilitate the deployment of OpenSource solutions. It is a much more closed system than a regular company (in the sense of communication with the world), which makes the whole transformation easier because it does not have to deal with 100% compatibility so convulsively.
Ad android for companies: Paradoxically, it is precisely the worst system for companies. The reason is its openness and diversity, which makes it very difficult for MDM solutions to grasp. Each manufacturer has a different launcher, each has a different mail client, etc. That's why their tools for mass management are actually the thinnest. The best is WP, which has tools in AD and pushes them to devices through the Exchange protocol, and then iOS, which pushes them through profiles. Of the Androids, Samsung is probably the best, which has its own Knox, which is part of almost every MDM. Without it, you can set passwords for wifi and a few other things, but not really much. And the main thing you don't want in your company is a rooted device that will do something you have no control over as an administrator. That's why the basic function of every mdm is the detection of jailbreak and root .
WP/WM10 doesn't actually exist as a platform, devices with this OS just live on.
I don't think that the "disadvantage" of Android is that every mobile phone has a different launcher and the company can buy whatever they want, the whole company can have one brand, one model, one launcher.
I assume that someone using root or JB can also bypass root detection.
I quite agree with living.
It is a disadvantage in the sense that there is not much solution for mass management, which is almost a necessity if you have a company with more than 30 people.
Developers would have to include an API for setting up and managing each alternative Launcher, etc., which no one actually does. This is a problem, for example, with geofencig rules (I'll hide your camera when you come to the company's development department). Samsung is the furthest along with Knox (their management API). It already competes with iOS. The solution is to have one brand and stick to it. But this is quite a problem in practice.
The battery was also a long-standing problem of Android when you had an MDM device connected to it (it works on the principle of an open SSL tunnel). It squeezed her enough. But it should be better. iOS had this figured out from the start.
Hehe, MuCommander: Java application that has not been developed for 10 years - about it: If a person uses it for more than 10 minutes a day, he knows that he has been suffering from the window redrawing problem on OS X for quite some time. Likewise the TrolCommander fork. On Linux, however, a pretty nice alternative to the regular Krusaders (which is unusable on OS X due to the maximum copying speed of some 150 mb/s - at least in our company) etc.
– Forklift: A child's affair that has almost no functions and stability is at freezing point.
General to both: They can partially solve the browsing problem, but not completely. Unfortunately, a proper file manager is something that does not exist on OS X (probably the only thing that simply does not exist on this system).
Otherwise, I personally do not claim that they are simply bad. We have over 100 of them and they are almost irreplaceable for certain things. I have personally been using them for over 10 years and I have no intention of changing yet. But if anyone has experience managing a similar number of Macs in a company, they know what hell it is. Even network broadcasts, for example, can blast some systems nicely. Their logic for switching APs to wifi is incomprehensible (it doesn't choose the strongest, but sticks to one tooth and nail), AD integration (as the only valid authentication system today) is downright pathetic. etc. etc. etc.
Well, wifi behavior can be set with one terminal command, but one should not be lazy and have to search a bit, it is similar with file managers, there are really many of them, there is no problem with stability.
But it is true that with Yosemite there was a big prus3r with discoveryd, so the solution is to use Mavericks with mdnsresponder or El Capitan with mdnsresponder.
There is also a script that can be used to replace discoveryd with mdnsresponder.
Of course, when clients come to your company, you catch everyone between the doors and use them to change the absolutely pointless settings with the terminal... good luck.
The second option is to purchase a quality wifi AP for the company, because the antennas and AirPort used in the MBP are among the best on the market, there are only three other laptops in the world that have similarly fast wifi as the MBP.
We have a Cisco solution in the company - a central controller and about 30 APs (it's the highest series, I don't know the model off the top of my head) and the only machines that have problems are really Macky. However, not because of the HW (it is clearly top), but because of the illogical catching of APs - just that "I don't connect to the strongest AP that is directly above my head, but to the first one to which I was connected first, although I am almost unable to use it communicate, but we are simply old acquaintances”. It's clear to me that handing over doesn't always have to be a problem (especially in a 3% resolved network), unfortunately it's very complicated here, as we have a rather problematic building - thick walls, steel doors, beams, metal nets, etc. everywhere. Therefore, we have to have a lot AP and there are places where maybe XNUMX APs light up and two of them disappear. Then the cats can get away with it... I'm not saying that this couldn't be solved with a better coverage solution - god knows we have weak points and room for improvement, but OS X is the ONLY system that suffers from this. And that's mainly from a completely illogical setup for which I can't imagine a single advantage.
To the managers. I searched a lot, but I couldn't find one that would MD5 compare folders with subfolders and also compare by content of folders with subfolders. I'm not saying it isn't, but I haven't found it.
Seriously? Isn't everything in that advertisement true? Apple is sleeping and that's not good.
In a way yes and no. Each device is for someone and to measure yourself... by making something that is closer to a PC and the other one is a complete fart, because it is not close to a PC...
I know people who will be fine with an iPad, I know people who would be fine with a Surface, and I know people for whom both are a breeze, literally…
Apple is following its own path, but only the future will show if it is a good or bad path... Personally, I think the same as you, that it is asleep, but I am not evaluating it yet and will wait to see what it brings...
On the iPad Pro itself, I would appreciate slightly smaller frames around the display, a full-fledged OS X with a touch interface (Apple patented it in the past), then it would be useful for me. But there is a 12″ Macbook for maximum mobility. None of the Macbooks are offered by Apple in a Celullar version (again, they have it patented), although I have no idea what they patented about it when laptops with an integrated 3G/LTE modem have been around for years.
At a time when WIN notebooks had disgustingly large connectors, Apple came up with AIR and only USB, it was crazy, and today WIN notebooks are like that too... so by putting connectors in the surface that are a few years old, am i actually ahead? Isn't it about the fact that Apple is pushing us to work in a modern way with the cloud and throw out all kinds of messed up flash drives? For what? When everything is online? The MS ad is just about the wrong thing, so much so that I wonder if the ad will pass the PR department. There is nothing progressive about what they highlighted...
You got it right here. Microsoft presents a machine that is closer to the majority user's idea of "What is a PC". Then "Apple is pushing us" to have a new idea about "What exactly is a PC?". And in the advertisement, the connectors are not the only or the main thing on which it is built - it is one of the 4 arguments. In my opinion, from a PR point of view, they are really well chosen.
And I still can't forgive myself for saying that I'm incredibly happy for any connector that remains standard in devices longer than your "few years".
I see it differently. In my eyes, Apple is an innovator who is not afraid to move the entire market. He was the first to cancel, for example, the DVD drive. And as everyone cursed... And where are the mechanics now. So will the USB end…. By pushing the market to innovate, it advances the way we work with computers. I will give this as an example. At work, the council is recorded on the computer, IT minto records it on a DVD so that I can put it in the drive and upload it to YouTube... If I didn't have the drive, it will force IT to come up with a different, more modern form, but since it's the old way, it doesn't make me think about a better and faster solution. And that makes WIN…
No offense - I have even better technology for you. You tell your IT to upload it to YT directly from that computer and you can do without the DVD and without the "innovator who moves the whole market". :O)
Apple also caught a lot of criticism for one connector on the first Air and added another one to subsequent versions.
I don't like a bunch of useless ports, just buy a reducer.
The Surface isn't a bad device, if Apple made the same thing in an all-metal unibody design and full OS X, I'd be the first to buy it.
I agree with you, but I will respond to a full-fledged OS, it is not an ass to unify the system between devices, even if Apple patented it, I would expect a fully unified OS in 5 years, meaning from this year. Look at Windows how they came up with tiles in that "floating" thing (subway or whatever it's called) and how they got people bashing them for it and it made them go a little different way. Just like when launchpad got into OSX (which I personally launch once a year), people also sputtered that it should be one of the main OSX gro...
Then let me not present the iPad as a PC.
I understand this, but what a PC is imho has changed in the last X years. I remember the days when it was a classic XT, a big box. After "desktops" came "towers" (I mean PC cases), then it was laptops that got smaller and smaller until tablets came (no Epl didn't invent them, but he knew how to sell them). Until today, many people are realizing that a tablet is enough for them and it will do the same work as what is called a PC.
Otherwise, the fact that they call it a PC is a marketing move, but what bothers me more is this measurement of who has a bigger scrotum... Otherwise, I think the Surface is an interesting piece of HW, even if it's not for me, just like the 10+ inch iPad.
It's not possible - the scrotum found out that epl is sleeping!!
It's two years from now and Windows will be the talk of the town as the most important of all Microsoft products
I really love people like that
Apple doesn't sleep, it fell asleep a long time ago and the assumption that raising prices is another thing has taken a heavy toll on it
apple sleep
stay awake
Hmmm and any more reasonable argument than my last name and prices wouldn't you have? When, according to your post, have you already eaten all the wisdom of the world?
They are really big, they highlight their strengths in their advertising, the rest in their smallness have to drop others to at least be seen in a small way....
It was here once before: https://goo.gl/W66HcK
Somehow Cortana forgot to mention reliability and customer acceptance of W10. Looks nice, but usability?
And where is it written that these things make a device a computer? These are just advertising gimmicks. Just marketing lies from one manufacturer. It's a shame that they can't get away with something like that in their ads - they certainly have a lot to offer, but they're letting themselves down unnecessarily with this approach.
As someone already wrote here "this was here once". Yes, if only once :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo
Personally, I really like the Surface Pro 4 ad. She is funny, matter-of-fact, and as you can see from the discussion, she hit exactly those chicken eyes that apple fans don't brag about. :)
It would be funny to make a commercial where a PC with Spyware 10 is like someone sick who takes anti-VIR pills, anti-Spyware pills, pills "to make things work" vs a Mac with OS X who is a healthy athlete who enjoys instead of doped up antivirus.
"It was here once" ;o)
Mac vs. PC - part where Mr. PC has a cold
Looks like I'm not the only one who noticed what Apple did with iPhones:
Profits are great. Apple should make profits, but some people aren't blind to what apple is doing to its customers, which is giving them what would be a mid-range $299 device, for android flagship prices. And, is one of the reasons Apple is losing customers. No doubt that iOS is great, but that doesn't change the fact that Samsung (and many others) are giving their customers 2560×1440 resolutions ( yes, you CAN see a difference ) vs. 750p/1080p as well as 3-6GB ram vs 1-2GB. (yes, I get that iOS doesn't "need" those specs to run smoothly) but you are paying for it even though you aren't "getting" those specs.
All { Flagship } android devices ship with Double the internal storage (yes android + oem skin takes up a little more room than iOS, but still end up with WAY more user available in the end on android) Not to mention SD card for more storage for music and pictures.
Apple 90% profits is because they are ripping you off on cheap hardware parts. 750p is a joke just like a 16Gb phone in 2016.
750p 2GB phones on android sell for $199 and they still make a small profit. Apple users pay $650 for that same hardware because of iOS/ecosystem I guess. If apple charged $499 for the 6S, they would still be making a massive profit. The 6S has about $140 in parts. Apple users pay that 400% markup. I am all for apple making profit, but for the money, I should be getting better parts. I want 1080p on the 6S. I want 1440p on the 6S Plus. I want 3GB ram so that when iOS 12 comes out, if I still have my phone, it doesn't slow down to being nearly useless. I want certified water resistance like galaxy phones have. I want wireless charging. I want to be able to add an SD card or have 64GB internal storage (not 16GB) for a $650+ phone.
They can still make profits and give us something WORTH $700.
https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/18/android-ios-smartphone-market-share/