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2008/09/16
I just got back from a technical training session. Nothing odd about that, of course; I go to these kinds of things all the time. This was a small session with a total of approximately a dozen people counting the two presenters. Nothing odd about that, either: many of these sessions are small.
Every one of us had our laptops. Again, that's common today, especially for technical sessions. We want them to take notes, to test product demos and probably most all we don't want to miss any important email. Laptops (and wireless access) are expected at today's business meetings. But..
There wasn't a PC in the room. Every single machine was a Mac. One iBook, the rest MacBooks and Macbook Pro's. Every single one.
Now, yes, most or all did have Windows available under VMWare or Parallels and the guy to my left was using Vista and said he didn't actually like OS X. But just the same, every single machine that came out of a carry bag was a Mac. That says something.
Yes, this was a tech session so these were geekish types. Yes, the product involved is one that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac so you'd certainly expect to see a few Macs. But every machine? I think that's a pretty clear indication that the world is changing..
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- Nov 21 07:55
@loudmouthman: correct, but how do you prove ANYTHING like that is accurate? You can't. A text file is no better or worse than anything. - Nov 21 07:40
@loudmouthman: well, a digital signature could prove it hadn't been altered. Text is no more insecure than anything else in that sense.
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Sat Sep 20 18:33:34 2008: Subject: Same thing here skent
I also meet with lots of people at meetings, seminars, conferences, etc. Mainly university/research types. Everyone has a laptop, and more than half are Macs. These are people who were MS Windows users 10 years ago. The killer app is still MS Office - without it, I think the adoption would be much lower.
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