The end of Windows topping the enterprise market is near, and Apple is waxing strong to take over, Dean Hager, the outgoing chief executive officer of Apple’s device management firm, Jamf, was reported to have said.
In a correspondence with the ComputerWorld, Dean Hager, reportedly expressed his views that Window’s age-long dominance at the enterprise platform is increasingly declining, and this cast no spell on Apple which is fast developing to take over the market.
His words: “No matter which way you look at it, Windows is a declining ecosystem and has been for 20 years, and that’s not a knock at Windows, it’s a statement of fact.
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“In 10 years’ time, Windows will not be the dominant ecosystem. Apple is coming up because it already dominates the mobile enterprise.
“When I joined Jamf in 2015, I thought some pretty special things were going to happen with Apple in the enterprise,” continued Hager. But I think even my predictions would have fallen far short of what has actually happened in the last eight years,” Hager said.
Stressing on the increasing influence of users over their choice of platforms, Hager noted that the impending displacement will be driven mainly by user-experience, rather than management bias which has been the case with many corporate organisations in the past.
“We live in an environment where people using the technology have a stronger voice than they’ve ever had in the history of the corporate world. And ultimately that voice will prevail.
“[Users] will choose the technology that they want, and this just wasn’t true 20 or even 10 years ago. But the world has changed, employees have a choice, and those organizations that don’t allow that choice are falling behind today,” Hager said.
Hager also stressed on Apple’s excellence in the mobile industry compared to windows’ to drive home his point.
“Hager’s point is partly that he says Windows has no mobile device to equal the iPhone, and so can’t be what he calls an ‘endpoint leader’. It can’t dominate because it isn’t competing across the platforms enterprise users want. But it’s also that issue of the customer and their needs,” Applelnsider analyst William Gallagher wrote.
However, many Internet users have reacted to and commented on the report posted on the Appleinsider official Facebook page. Some excerpts of the people’s views are highlighted below:
Someone wrote that the big institutions like the US Government, the military and the law enforcement will continue to rely on windows and MS for many years to come.
Another user argued that the possibility depends on Apple’s pricing and readiness to capture the lower market that some windows products cater for.
Some others believe many corporate brands, especially small and medium enterprises would rather ditch Apple for Windows or Linux due to its software complexity.