Monday, March 17, 2003
Reader feedback: Do you use a Mac at a PC-dominated jobsite?
Steven Tan writes in to share his experiences as the lone Mac fan in a sea of PC users:
"I just bought my TiBook 1Ghz in Dec last year and have been using it in my job as a web coordinator in a world of Dells for 3 months now. I also have a flat screen Dell in my office which I need to check emails, run MS Access, PCAnywhere and some Windows-only apps. My boss is liking what I do with the Mac, she seems to appreciate the easy to use apps, like iCal. Her comment was "How simple it looks!". Slowly, but surely, I will try to change their views about Macs."
Well, there's nothing quite like being the only one of your kind as you set out to bring others on board. I'm convinced that while Apple's cool hardware gets people interested in Macs in the first place, it's MacOS X that hooks them, and then the iApps lock people into actually Switching. Every great baseball team has three power-hitters, and in Apple's case, the hardware, the operating system, and the applications are the triple threat. Steven, here's your challenge: get your employer to migrate its database operations from MS Access to FileMaker Pro. Since FileMaker Pro is fully cross-platform, that'll be one less thing you'll have to do on a PC.
Readers, are you alone with your Mac in PC land? Are you making headway? Share your story.
Steven Tan writes in to share his experiences as the lone Mac fan in a sea of PC users:
"I just bought my TiBook 1Ghz in Dec last year and have been using it in my job as a web coordinator in a world of Dells for 3 months now. I also have a flat screen Dell in my office which I need to check emails, run MS Access, PCAnywhere and some Windows-only apps. My boss is liking what I do with the Mac, she seems to appreciate the easy to use apps, like iCal. Her comment was "How simple it looks!". Slowly, but surely, I will try to change their views about Macs."
Well, there's nothing quite like being the only one of your kind as you set out to bring others on board. I'm convinced that while Apple's cool hardware gets people interested in Macs in the first place, it's MacOS X that hooks them, and then the iApps lock people into actually Switching. Every great baseball team has three power-hitters, and in Apple's case, the hardware, the operating system, and the applications are the triple threat. Steven, here's your challenge: get your employer to migrate its database operations from MS Access to FileMaker Pro. Since FileMaker Pro is fully cross-platform, that'll be one less thing you'll have to do on a PC.
Readers, are you alone with your Mac in PC land? Are you making headway? Share your story.
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