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On the one hand, this cat knows how to screw up marketing hardware/software ( Be, Inc! ). On the other hand, he's literally talking nonsense about a compute pla
by bitcrusher 7y ago
On the one hand, this cat knows how to screw up marketing hardware/software ( Be, Inc! ). On the other hand, he's literally talking nonsense about a compute platform that is targeted at studios.
- throwayEngineer 7y agoBtw, are there actually companies that use Apple desktop/laptops? I had thought this was part of the Marketing. Don't they sell to high school kids going to college?
- cglace 7y agoI’ve never been to a company that does not have a mix of pc/mac. From Fortune 500 to startups.
- mitchty 7y ago> Btw, are there actually companies that use Apple desktop/laptops? Yes? Lots of them use apple laptops. More than windows from my experience.
- djtriptych 7y agohaven't seen an engineering shop in a while that didn't offer macbooks to engineers. At least 8 years. Internally at Google for instance almost everyone is on a macbook.
- phxrsg 7y agoNot sure where you're getting this idea, but maybe your view is being shaped based on what industry you're in? Everywhere I've worked in the SF Bay Area and the valley (tech companies) are 100% Apple shops for at minimum their tech employees. Many of them are all Apple for sales / sales eng as well as execs (airs, usually). Some of the big ones are all-laptops (MBPs for tech, Airs or standard macbooks for other functions) with desks that have 1-3 4k monitors plugged in when working at the desk. Other companies had a ton of trash cans deployed at desks in addition to the MBPs. I have less work experience on the east coast, but in major east coast city offices I've seen similar.
- la_barba 7y agoI have a feeling they might be outside the US, where Macs are less common.
- toyg 7y agoLess common is an understatement. In Europe, where software development has always been a cost centre and margins are always thin, Macs have been downright rare until the late 2000s. They were “the computer for people who don’t want to know about computers”, with a very small and dedicated niche of developers that never intersected with the enterprise world.
- praneshp 7y agoUpvoted you to help with the downvotes you got for asking a question. I had this opinion too, before visiting the bay area for an interview in 2011. I was stunned at how every single person (or so it seemed) had a mac out on the caltrain. And to answer your question, two out of the three companies I've worked at have been almost all macs (some devs like linux/windows laptops).
- itsaidpens 7y agoI remember installing BeOS on my Performa 6400. It was a cool little piece of kit.
- lancesells 7y agoCan we get some vfx or game studio heads in here commenting? From what I've experienced in my career is many studios are run at a very low margin. Doubling the price of the Mac Pro would most likely have an effect.
- CondensedBrain 7y agoI'm only adjacent to the VFX and game studio worlds, but there's a meme: "Our movie/game did great! Time to announce layoffs."
- toyg 7y agoI thought that had more to do with the “seasonality” of a business closer to movies than enterprise software, i.e. once a project is over, everyone is fired.
- CondensedBrain 7y agoThe angst usually centers around management being paid enough to hold on to the laid off people so they can develop their skills and work on 20% type projects. As things are, they leave the industry after a few rounds of it. It's shortsighted. They let many of the people responsible for that wealth float off to more stable industries so a few people can get rich far beyond their contribution.
- erichocean 7y agoThere is no software that is macOS-only used by VFX artists, and except for a few 2D tools (cough Photoshop cough), everything runs on Linux. (Typically Red Hat/CentOS with nVidia cards.) The farm basically always just runs Linux. Many studios run Linux on the desktop, sometimes Windows, and sometimes macOS.