Why isn't Apple attacking the enterprise market?
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There are few markets Apple can enter to continue its growth trajectory, given its size. Enterprise computing is such a market. With Apple silicon, supply chain, support infrastructure, and Mac laptops increasingly used on the client side, why isn’t Apple more aggressively attacking the enterprise market? Seems like a lost opportunity to me. Curious to hear thoughts on this.
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#2It is. Macbook are very common in enterprises, as well as iphones (for the mdm features)
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#3What product are you envisioning that Apple doesn't offer? Rackable compute? Not worth their time.
Look at the products they make. They try to make stuff that targets the widest market possible; everybody. They try not to go for niche markets.
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#4Apple used to have some enterprise hardware products, like the XServe (rackmount Mac.) They also had Mac OS Server. They must've had a reason to stop.
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#5Apple is a consumer (or prosumer) company and as of late its mostly into mass marketable products. They are already trying another trajectory, subscription services (targeting a wide market again).
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#6These days and probably for the past 30 years or so, companies want nothing but cheap in up front costs. If they wanted good hardware, mainframes would still be selling very well, much more than now.
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#7At every tech company I've worked at, 99% of the software engineers are using company provided MacBooks (if that counts).
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#8My personal belief: Because the enterprise market, separating as it does the user from the buyer, creates incentives that lead to bad products.
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#9The short answer is: Apple would give away control of their products if they did.
Enterprise/Corporate/Govt all have tedious amounts of niche needs and requirements to endlessly grow.
Can’t find the quote as I’m on my phone, but when a former exec from Apple left and joined a corp, and asked Steve if he wanted to expand to corporate, he said he won’t stop him, but he isn’t going to help him either. (I’m sure I butchered it), but something like that.
Remember, IT = Control.
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#10They do but mostly in their peripherals. The monitors they sell are for the enterprise creative and entertainment industries: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/pro-display-xdr
Their mainstream prosumer computers are also fine and widely used in many enterprises industries