IBM to Do the Apple Thing: Will Jeans and Black Turtlenecks Be the New IBM Fashion Trend
August 4, 2015
I don’t know if this article is accurate or a belated April Fool joke: “IBM to Purchase Up to 200,000 Macs Annually, with 50-75 Percent of Employees Ultimately Switching from Lenovo.”
My recollection is that IBM and Microsoft were once pals. Well, maybe sort of pals. There was that OS/2 thing, wasn’t there.
In the write up I learned:
A year after teaming up with Apple on an enterprise partnership to push iOS devices and apps for business users, IBM is moving forward with plans to rapidly move its own employees onto Apple’s platforms, MacRumors has learned. While IBM announced in an internal memo several months ago that it was planning to purchase up to 50,000 MacBooks for employees by the end of 2015, chief information officer Jeff Smith has revealed in a new internal video released to employees yesterday that he believes IBM could actually end up purchasing 150,000-200,000 Macs annually.
I am not sure if Lenovo is happy or sad to see this type of “news.” Years ago, I learned from IBM that it had “figure out Google.” I assume that this deal with Apple and the embrace of Apple hardware is part of that “figuring out.”
Stephen E Arnold, August 4, 2015
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