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A comment on Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back. Parent comment

Re:Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back by snom380 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @01:53PM (#14232854)
I don't think it's given that he's right or wrong. Apple has chosen a very different path (powerful devices with local apps) and they're also extremely successful.

The real lesson, I think, is that most people don't want to _manage_ devices. They don't want to deal with backups, they don't want to manage disks, filesystems and drivers, and if you can take all of that away they'll be happy to store all their documents in your cloud.

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Re:Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back by petilon on Sunday April 30, 2017 @02:33PM (#14233099)
For home and personal devices, Apple's approach is fine. But for business and education, central management is essential.
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Re:Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back by ghaff on Sunday April 30, 2017 @03:44PM (#14233451)
>But for business and education, central management is essential.

For business, it depends.

I think my company is fairly typical in that we offer fully managed systems but don't require that people go that route. (But you're more or less on your own for support if you choose to self-manage.)

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