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Leading to.. Apple iPhone sales by year 2007-2016 | Statista
2016 was the first year to see a drop in iPhone sales. It looks like 2017 will see a lower figure than 2016 (although that could change if they announce an Earth-shattering device today.. unlikely though, Tim Cook isn't an innovator).
At the end of the day, if you don't give your customers what they want, they go elsewhere. 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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raddevus wrote: since we all know how to use iPhones, let's just use Apple Servers too. Make this happen, IT Team, because Apple is best. I know because I am a consumer who uses an iPhone.
Apple makes servers? 
Anyways, this has been happening since the 1980's, except then it was the future business user, as a kid, saying "hey Dad, my school has Apple II computers, I want one at home! Make this happen, Dad, because Apple is best, because we use them at school!" because Apple was giving away its computers to schools, knowing that it would bring in home use sales.
raddevus wrote: This all bound to sound very controversial on a web site (CP) devoted to the tech side.
Nah, it's inevitable and should have been obvious. 
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Good points and by "use Apple servers" I meant...
macOS Server - Overview - Apple[^]
EDIT
and look their marketing info drives the point home further...
Apple site says: The server for everyone.
macOS Server is perfect for a small studio, business, or school. And it’s so easy to use, you don’t need your own IT department.
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raddevus wrote: you don’t need your own IT department
Well you don't need your own IT team for Windows Servers.. you can just let Chinese hackers manage them for you 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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raddevus wrote: Enterprise decisions are being more driven by average consumers now instead of technology consumers.
A fanciful interpretation of the morass of hype and pseudo-factoids that make up this puff-piece of an article.
The one voice of sanity in the article, Gold's, sums it up nicely:Quote: "Is it significant? It's significant if you're an Accenture client, but it's not clear exactly what it's all going to mean longer term," Gold said.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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BillWoodruff wrote: morass of hype and pseudo-factoids that make up this puff-piece of an article
I agree with you.
It was possibly written by an Apple team member.
But that's what it's all about "the perception of owning the Server Landscape".
Everyone wants their company hosted on Apple Servers because as their marketing info tells you plainly...
Apple site says: The server for everyone.
macOS Server is perfect for a small studio, business, or school. And it’s so easy to use, you don’t need your own IT department.
see...
macOS Server - Overview - Apple[^]
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raddevus wrote: the perception of owning
Just because your neighbors are on drugs, doesn't mean you're high, or that they are not stupid 
cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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From the things I'd like to see behind the paywall files:
Quote: According to research firm Markets and Markets, 50% of businesses will have adopted a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy by the end of this year.
What type of devices? If they're talking about phones I think they're a few years behind the curve. OTOH if they're on about laptops I'd love to know what they're basing it on. Outside of companies selling remote desktop platforms (eg Citrix has done it for years), startups that are masking their cheapness with an attempt to be cool, and the self employed; I haven't seen any indications of traction happening here. And I'd be shocked to see it in any company that has an IT security position because of the gaping cluster ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) it would create in any security plans.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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By this logic, shouldn't Google Android also own the enterprise?
This is a bid don't care.
Business will run on the cloud, there will be many clients.
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raddevus wrote: Now, every person _feels_ as if computers are easy to use and so setting up servers and the rest is probably simple too, since I can configure my iPhone. So, now, some business-user comes along and says, "since we all know how to use iPhones, let's just use Apple Servers too. Make this happen, IT Team, because Apple is best. I know because I am a consumer who uses an iPhone." 
And yet...we can't seem to get it through our users heads that they are not allowed to move their computer from this side of the room to that side of the room and plug it into a different RJ-45 jack.
They whine and cry and yell when we tell them it will be a few hours at a minimum before someone from networking will be able to reset port security because they are out working on issues that were NOT self-inflicted.
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The latest research confirms that Amazon continues to dominate cloud computing. Get your head into The Cloud
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Odd, I just tried it again, and it seems to work? Maybe a temporary glitch? Thank you though.
TTFN - Kent
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Python is a popular programming language that’s being adopted at a fast pace. "Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whiz"
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While I'm normally upbeat about Python (the only duck-typed scripting language I've ever said anything positive about) at the moment, I'm annoyed at it. Was dealing with Python 2 to Python 3 breaking changes (everything from long no longer being supported to how dictionary keys work differently in P3) with regards to an OS library I was fussing with. I think Python is one of those languages which defines "geek" - people who have no problem with time wasting breaking changes and love fixing those things.
And of course, you don't figure out the crashes in the code until you run it, because there's no types!
Somewhat late in the game, I discovered that there was a Python 3 branch of the repo.  Saved some additional time, particularly since several important bug fixes were made in the P3 branch but not the P2 master, which I guess is technically deprecated, but honestly, it should have just been archived as the P2 buggy branch and the P3 branch should be the master.
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I applaud Fossbytes ability to take original content[^] and regurgitate it with zero value added.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Our generation has learned from its mistakes and created structure oriented, high level, strongly typed languages, avoiding common pitfalls we discovered on the way. Now let the scripting/holy patterns/10.000 frameworks kids do exactly the same.
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Discards are local variables which you can assign a value to them and that value cannot be read (discarded). Because just ignoring the variables is too hard?
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A great new invention for showing that code flow relies on side effects only (why else would you ignore the return / out value?). That's interesting news for the real world clean coder.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: A great new invention for showing that code flow relies on side effects only (why else would you ignore the return / out value?).
So, using bool.TryParse(out bool) would be "relying on a side-effect"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: A great new invention for showing that code flow relies on side effects only (why else would you ignore the return / out value?). That's interesting news for the real world clean coder.
... or just questionably designed APIs you can't get rid of.
public void AttemptToFrobinateData(MyDataType theSourceData, out string resultMessage, out bool succeeded, out MyDateType theOutputData, out string theOutputAsJson, out string theOutputAsXml)
Yeah I packed multiple WTFs into this on purpose, but having one of them is hardly uncommon. `resultMessage` is utterly useless as anything but a not even half-elephanted attempt to be lazy about generating a display message to the user and is redundant with `succeeded` in any event. Having a single publicly facing method return the data in multiple formats is also facepalmy in most circumstances. At most you might want a pair of overloads that return the serialized data instead of the raw object. Either `succeeded` or the desired flavor of result data should be a return value instead of an out parameter.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: or just questionably designed APIs you can't get rid of.
Yeah, great! Some more people can now simply add more useless out parameters to their functions. 
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: Yeah, great! Some more people can now simply add more useless out parameters to their functions.
As if the people who think a zillion optional parameters is best since it avoids function overloads aren't already doing just that. This just would make it easier for those of us who can't LART them into submission to avoid extra lines of code in dealing with their garbage.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I find myself, at this point, thinking "meh".
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