🚀 go-pugleaf

On 5 Feb 2018 10:31:58 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

>On 2018-02-04, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>> Just saw this news item:
>>
>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/29/farewell_to_macos_server/
>>
>> I didn't really know there _was_ a MacOS Server, and so I can't blame Apple too 
>> much for deciding the effort to maintain it isn't worth the expense... their 
>> hardware is too expensive to be a rational choice for people wishing to set up a 
>> server in most cases.
>>
>> If, however, one has quite a few Macs on the desktop, one would like the server 
>> for them to be as secure as they are, and to be operable by people whose training 
>> is with the Macintosh, so this decision could well cost them with the corporate 
>> desktop.
>
>About 5 or 6 years ago, I decided that it would be much better if the
>underground Mac community in $(MEGABANK) were actually supported, rather
>than using their machines for Bank work 'illicitly' (some of them had
>even imaged their provided Windows laptops and were running the images
>in a VM on their Macbooks!) The bank's official stance on Macs was short
>and stupid; no Macs.
>
>So, we set up a meeting with Apple to discuss this. To say they were
>indifferent towards our requirements would be to grossly exaggerate their
>level of interest. They simply didn't give a damn, presumably because
>they sold mountains of machines into the retail market and don't need
>troublesome IT departments.
>
>And it wasn't that we weren't going to buy that many machines, because
>when we subsequently went back to discuss migrating our Blackberry
>estate to iPhone (which would have meant that we would be buying ~300,000
>iPhones) they didn't give a damn, then, either.
>
>Their attitude was "this is the product, take it or leave it".
>
>(Needless to say, whenever I tell this story, I get accused of lying by
>some Apple fanboi, so if you're thinking of doing that, please don't.)

I liked the Apple ][, but that is when I learned Apple didn't like
their customers.