Better? More productive? More loyal, too.
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Some of them have done a very good job. Then again, when I went to Best Buy not long ago and asked which was the best Windows laptop, a salesman told me it was, oh, a MacBook.
I’m sure that so many Apple fanperson types are exalting in these IBM results and preparing to lord it over what they see as less enlightened PC colleagues.
It’s understandable. PC people can be excessively worthy and strident.
I should point out, however, that there’s one finding from this study that does rather dampen the buccaneering Apple spirit.
You see, Previn also revealed that MacOS users are 17% less likely to leave IBM compared to PC types.
I’m sure IBM considers this another note in favor of Mac users. But is it?
I can’t help thinking that working for IBM isn’t, perchance, the apogee of employment these days. Or even tech employment.
Where once IBM used to be (a certain sort of) sexy, now it seems a rather more staid place.
Could it be, then, that Mac users have become conventional types who work their way up gray corporate organizations, while PC users are more adventurous? Could it be that PC users are more prepared to strike out into the scary world of startups, apps, and, who knows, making the world a better place?
Once, Apple users were rebels. Now, they’re just like everyone else, trying to keep their heads down, eke out a crust and survive the madness.
Yes, they may be more productive. But what if it’s only fear that’s making them so?
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