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In Apple’s first-quarter earnings, the Mac leads the way in sales growth (arstechnica.com)

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Apple's first-quarter earnings report revealed a mixed performance. While overall sales increased by 4%, iPhone sales showed weakness, particularly in China, where they declined by over 11%. CEO Tim Cook attributed this partly to the lack of Apple Intelligence in China and inventory changes. However, the Mac, iPad, and Services categories saw significant growth, with Services up 14% and both the Mac and iPad up 15%. The company reported $36.33 billion in net revenue, a 7.1% increase from the previous year.

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[–] vanderbilt 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’d attribute this growth to the looming deprecation of Windows 10. With the decision to move to Windows 11, many orgs are replacing them with Macs. On the consumer side, the M4 is seen as worthy upgrade for those already on the earlier M chips.

[–] MSids 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm not sure I could see a significant number of enterprises switching to Mac, it's just too tall of an order. My department definitely wouldn't have the bandwidth to do controls, policies, service desk retraining, and internal app rewrites.

Personally I have switched to Mac and am very happy. The performance, OS, and power efficiency of the Macs are just excellent. I'll likely never give up my Android phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

There's absolutely no way organizations are replacing Windows computers with Macs that would be an insane thing to do.

There was very poor corporate support for Mac OS, a cheap Dell is always going to be a better proposition for large-scale deployment, people know how to use Windows computers, corporate software generally isn't cross OS compatible because traditionally that has never been a requirement, and it would require upgrading all of the server backend and rewriting all the knowledge articles.

It just straight up isn't going to happen.

[–] ChapulinColorado 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have not heard of any orgs replacing windows with Mac. This is for consulting and IT. To my knowledge, it is still something only available to execs and higher management. What sector was this for?

[–] vanderbilt 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

An IT supply chain management company and a northeastern medical society have been the latest of our clients to adopt more of them, mostly through attrition of Windows devices. In my prior role at a PE firm, I was responsible for kicking off the transition company-wide to Macs. They liked the lower cost of ownership, maintenance, and the “impression it gave to clients”. The CAD engineers absolutely rioted about it lol. Let me tell you, zip-tying a cheese grater Mac into a server rack is a surreal experience 😂.

To your point, it is still largely director level and above. They are still using MS products mind you, just on Macs.