I'm not sure Apple are their guide; I htink it's more that they react more slowly to market forces.
It's like someone in a swift boat and someone in a row boat, they tale the same course, but the row boat seems to be imitating the swift boat while in actuality both are reacting to the river's course -one more swiftly.
If they're gonna go the Apple route, go the whole way: don't make me ask for permission to install software I've licensed on my computer (via software activation). Charge a reasonable amount ($20? 30?) and charge that same amount to SMB customers. Don't make massive UI/UX changes in each release.
Not mimicking Apple, but all software and OS's today. How many major software companies come out with a new version of their product every 3-4 years???
If they pull this properly I suppose either each release will be supported for the usual five years, or some releases will be picked as LTS. Either way, if support is long enough nobody forces anyone to upgrade on each release (it's not like enterprises upgrade on each release anyway).
I really hope it's an enterprise thing. Enterprise need to get better at upgrading and testing systems, otherwise as developers we are stuck accommodating the lowest common denominator. cough IE6 cough
Why do enterprise customers need to change their ways? Developers provide a service to them, not the other way around. Although if you don't want to support customers using old software, you don't have to. Maybe someone else will.
There's a lot of money that developers have to put into simultaneously keeping up to date with modern technology and supporting legacy technologies from a decade ago. At best, that cost alone ultimately has to get passed on to the customer. At worst, the end result is poorer quality software which brings higher support overhead and lower employee productivity.
Enterprises are changing because their customers want more. More services, more products. This drives the business units to try to deliver, and often they need better tools. But when the IT department becomes the bottleneck and the roadblock to delivering, people look to other methods like cloud based solutions. Or they just push for their own initiative internally and try to convince IT later.
But either way, enterprises need to move faster because the rest of the world is.
The current system is broken and if they hope to stay in business, they'll adapt.
Not because developers hate IE6, but because their customers want more features, and their best employees will move to better jobs.
Indeed. XP and IE6 are tired in the enterprise but, they are paid for, they work and apparently, we fear change. Those are the big three that I hear on a weekly basis from management. At this point, if Windows 8 was super enterprise friendly and completely free, we still wouldn't budge I am sure.
That's exactly what I didn't like. Maybe I had the worst possible time to "experiment" with OS X (it was the moment they changed from their power mac CPUs to the Intel CPUs) and it sucked. Three years later no new software ran on the Mac. I would have to update to OS X 10.5 or 10.6 and the performance sucked.
This made me really prefer the Microsoft way of doing business. But this seems to change now.
I really wished they didn't try to copy the bad parts of Apple too. My only hope is that they try to cater a little bit more to business customers who prefer stability.
Hopefully they bounce back from the way their headed with Windows 8, where it looks like they completely forgot their business customers.
Windows 8 looks like they completely forgot their business customers
It's probably more a case of ignoring them for this release cycle rather than forgetting them. I suspect businesses will be back in full focus next update.
That is where my thoughts are as well - business customers make a large mind share that I cannot imagine that they would ignore. I am hoping that Windows 8 as it is right now is the foundation for a more enterprise friendly set up. Please notice 'hoping' - I am equally prepared to not be surprised if this is it so to speak. Can't imagine that but hey, stranger things have happened.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 32.4 ms ] threadIt's like someone in a swift boat and someone in a row boat, they tale the same course, but the row boat seems to be imitating the swift boat while in actuality both are reacting to the river's course -one more swiftly.
They don't have to, but they they will ultimately suffer along with all consumers.
This made me really prefer the Microsoft way of doing business. But this seems to change now.
I really wished they didn't try to copy the bad parts of Apple too. My only hope is that they try to cater a little bit more to business customers who prefer stability.
Hopefully they bounce back from the way their headed with Windows 8, where it looks like they completely forgot their business customers.
It's probably more a case of ignoring them for this release cycle rather than forgetting them. I suspect businesses will be back in full focus next update.