alt Hacker News>What exactly do you mean by this? What do people need that Apple supplies as an integrated system that is hard to replace?
The complete package. Hardware, software and ecosystem by a single company. Only Microsoft and Google have anything coming close to this.
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While that’s sure nice to have as a customer, I fail to see how it is strategically relevant to the EU to have something similar here. I’d value a functioning, open, and compatible ecosystem of European software much more.
What I'm seeing is more and more web based systems. My kids school is completely browser based. Nothing is installed beyond the browser. Same for the teachers, it's all web based.
That said, I love apple. Nothing else works like their hardware. It's not the best by a long shot, but I'm still able to use a mac-pro 8 years on. And my iphone is 7 years old (for me) and I got it used.
Organisations are unlikely to rely only on Apple Software though.
Most organisations do not use MS or Google hardware though.
MS can provide everything for a standard office desktop, but the real strength of their OS is the availability of lots of third party software.