The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit

oDDmON oUT points us to a BusinessWeek story about the increasing use of Apple products in the corporate sector. Many companies are finding that their employees are pushing for the transition more than Apple itself. Quoting: "While thousands of other companies scratch and claw for the tiniest sliver of the corporate computing market, Apple treats this vast market with utter indifference. After a series of failed offensives by the company in the 1980s and 1990s, Chief Executive Steve Jobs decided to focus squarely on consumers and education customers when he returned to Apple in 1997. As a result, the company doesn't have ranks of corporate salespeople or armies of repairmen waiting to respond every time a hard drive fails. He believes it's difficult for any company, including his, to be effective at satisfying both corporate buyers and consumers."

Re:Repairing em'

[Anonymous Coward]

You went to the Apple store and had it fixed? This is why Slashdot is no fun any more.

Where's the story about using a Dremel, an old VCR, a soldering iron, and a Perl script to fix it yourself?

Re:Send in the clones

[Dystopian Rebel]

From The Desk Of Steve Jobs, Apple Inc

Dear Slashdot Member 122034 ("Animats"),

It has been brought to my attention that you understand my business better than I do.

As you know, Slashdot is full of people who have far more opinions than money and far more enthusiasm for offering their opinions than for doing any real work.

Of course, I have no reason to believe that you are one of these foolish, idle creatures that can be seen pontificating on Web sites every minute of every day while able-minded people are accomplishing things.

Congratulations on having brilliant, instantaneous insights into my own affairs that I can only begin to understand after spending more than half my life in the computer industry and running one of the most successful electronics companies in the world.

I've instructed my assistants to alert me to any future guidance that you have time to offer.

Sincerely,

Steve Jobs

Re:Repairing em'

[CSMatt]

3-step process for repairing Macs:

1. Throw away defunct Mac
2. Buy new Mac
3. Profit!!!

Re:Repairing em'

[noewun]

Where's the damn carburetor?

On a Mac it's right between the flux capacitor and the dilithium crystal matrix.

Re:Repairing em'

[Yvan256]

Uhoh, I think I just sent the files to myself in 1988. Damn you Time Machine!

see this is why Apple is failing

[Trepidity]

If Jobs knew anything, he'd stick to taking his advice from Slashdot UIDs that are three digits or less.

Re:Repairing em'

[Kjella]

Where's the story about using a Dremel, an old VCR, a soldering iron, and a Perl script to fix it yourself?

Hey! Who leaked the script of the new MacGuyver movie?

Re:Repairing em'

[pjt33]

Any story involving one person, a soldering iron, and a Perl script has to end in disaster. You surely know the axiom about the three most dangerous things in technology: a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware engineer with a compiler, and a user with an idea.

Re:Repairing em'

[Niten]

iMacGyver?

I suppose if anyone has enough sway to bring the mullet back into style, it'd be Apple...

I love the smell...

[BiOFH]

I love the smell of frightened MCSEs in the morning!
Or do we simply call it fear of 'something I know nothing about'?
"Mac bad! Beat on Mac! Me no like, want smash! Get away! Make scared! No understand!"