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At IBM, 5% of Mac users call the help desk, compared to 40% of PC users

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2 points by KevinBongart 10 years ago · 4 comments

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hbogert 10 years ago

- Maybe windows users are winers.

- Maybe IBM's Mac settings/environment is sane(r) compared to their Window's.

- Maybe their windows environment has to support loads of legacy apps.

- Maybe 90% of the Windows complaints are about one small gripe (where is a chart about the types of complaints?)

- Maybe Mac users mail the help desk, instead of call.

- Maybe Macs are handed out first to people who want them. What happens when every employee who didn't ask for a Mac gets one, will the numbers stay the same?

Not a fanboy for Windows; I'm typing this on a Macbook Air. I'm really just annoyed by these insinuating percentage magic, which in this case somehow has to show the supremacy of OSX.

mikhailt 10 years ago

I wonder what it was like when they were still doing ThinkPads? ThinkPad were great in the good old days.

mahouse 10 years ago

Did they give Macs to everybody, or just to one department? I think that's pretty important.

  • mikhailt 10 years ago

    The only info they provided in the article was this:

    > To much fanfare from the crowd, Previn said that IBM is deploying 1,900 Macs per week and currently have 130,000 Macs and iOS devices in the hands of users.

    I seriously doubt it is one department with over 130K Macs.

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