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Originally Posted by daveshookme
Surely when you have a sample size of millions there's going to be some issues, especially when porting from platform to platform and back numerous times. But that's no reason to avoid one platform or another. If everything were on Macs (or pc's, or unix), I doubt you'd be having the issues (at least not at the numbers you claim), no?
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That's my point exactly. The guy earlier in the thread was making a clear statement that there's a problem moving office documents back and forth across the the platforms. There was an assertion that was not the case when there clearly is and it doesn't take millions, it was just the easiest example I could come up with off the top of my head. Basically what you would find in any medium sized company in a first world setting not in an enclosed IT setting.
I even stated clearly when
serious work is being done, not term papers, party invitations, dissertations or family photos. That's why macs do not have the market share in the enterprise. Shit doesn't "just work". It never "just works" in any electronics of scale and heavy use and anyone preaching that it does with Macs or Apple products and doesn't with anything else is delusional. Macs are great for Some Stuff, Windows is great for Some Stuff and Some Stuff they both blow at.
Here's a much smaller sample size for you. I am cursed to organize an annual CME event every year. Six speakers for the last 11 years (the 11th is this Saturday in fact). So that's 60 speakers. Every year at least one of them has a problem with their presentation (I'd say 75% of these guys use Macs). We wind up dumping it to a PC for editing because the AV company is PC based and it's their call. It hoses their formatting EVERY SINGLE TIME and the presentation needs to be rebuilt with their assets and text. I'm not talking fonts, I'm talking transitions, picture sizing/placement etc. I am positive of this because they always panic and I have to babysit them and assure them that the AV guy is great at this and he'll have it sorted in no time.
I'll blame half of these on the users because... well trust me half of these are their fault. But the other half? But the other half are professional $10k an hour speakers that know exactly what they are doing with their hardware and software. Let's say it's only 25% of them. That's an atrocious failure rate on a small sample size. Yeah, there's audio/video, animated transitions and sometimes some linked data visualization etc so they are not simple but still...
Out of curiosity, I just loaded up a very simple .pptx from an email and opened it in Keynote in on my iPad. There's nothing in this presentation but graphs and legends built in powerpoint a few months ago. They are overlapping and unreadable in Keynote. Now it's not Office on a Mac (cause it's on my iPad) so that gets a pass in my book, but honestly; how tough should that be to get right? I couldn't just open and present this in a meeting. I'd have to edit it or recreate it on the iPad or a Mac if I didn't want to go get a PC to drag somewhere.
Anyway, thanks for the easy venting valve; I needed that. I just spent the last few days fighting some of these very same issues. I'd been trying to convince a high volume cards office to dump their macs to get rid of some of these problems and quit listening to a local sales guy preach about how they are easier to work with when they clearly cause them nothing but grief on daily basis (they have to dual boot half the office because the PACS software package they spent nearly a $mil on up front and $29k a year in service fees has no OSX client that's been promised for two years...). They thought they had to have macs to use their iPads for their charting.