thinking of converting to apple products

[Scutterborn]

I'm a Mac. I'll never go back.

[kkiel02]

This is an easy question to answer- of course you should switch to Mac.

That being said iPhones have a lot of catching up to do with this new "5S". I was a die hard android fan up until I had to buy an iPhone to control my apex. Lol yeah i bought iPhone for my aquarium. Anyways I loved my 4S. It's the only phone that still works great that has lasted this long. Most of the time the battery starts to die out or the phone crashes. But so far so good on this phone. So although Samsung has been coming out with some nice phones lately, I'm still an iPhone fan atm. Actually my last android was a Samsung and that thing sucked so I'm reluctant to go back.

Ipad and the galaxy are the only tablets I would buy. I haven't used a galaxy but we love our ipad and use it more than the computer.

Computer wise I have always had windows os but if I had to buy one now I would try a Mac because even though they cost more Ive lost too many computers to viruses. But let's face it desktops are a dying breed.

That's just my $.02.

[Scutterborn]

I agree, Kevin. In fact, my iPhone and iPad are likely the only two things that, if broken, would warrant immediate replacement for my life to be complete.

[rrasco]

But let's face it desktops are a dying breed.

I disagree. A common misconception is that home users drive these markets. They don't, businesses do. Sure M$ makes a little money off of home consumers, but it's enterprise licensing and hardware that keeps big tech companies afloat. Microsoft wants people to use Windows and Office at home because it builds a dependency and familiarity with a product that people will use at work.

The tablet was created as a consumer device and it's been successful. IMO people are trying to use them in businesses as a producing device, and while they can be somewhat successful depending on the user and end-goal, but that's just not what they excel at.

[footballdude2k3]

The tablet was created as a consumer device and it's been successful. IMO people are trying to use them in businesses as a producing device, and while they can be somewhat successful depending on the user and end-goal, but that's just not what they excel at.

That depends, if you want to do everything a computer can do, you are right about everything this side of an Asus slate, but I think more businesses are going to switch to tablets for a lot of things because they can restrict what their employees can access, so in the right circumstances they can be great, but if you want your employees to do more, desktops will always have a place.

I am getting 2 new computers in the next year, a MacBook Air because I want battery life, and a Mac Pro because it will do anything. I love my tablet, use it all the time.

[rrasco]

Well, that's always key....what are you trying to do? Tablets have a place in the business, but not for making spreadsheets or RFPs. They are great for accessing content with ease (websites, video, documents, etc), but producing content is not their strong suit. All of my management, salesman, and project managers have tablets (iPads in fact)...but they primarily consume content with them. We have some web apps they can utilize with them via the browser, and they can compose email on them, but the brunt of their work has to be done on a real computer. They come in handy when my PMs are on a job site and can access our intranet apps via VPN and access documents without having to pull out a laptop.

You can restrict desktops through something we call Group Policy, on a Windows domain of course. I can also restrict what our phone and tablets do through an MDM SaaS.