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Swedish IDG rag ComputerSweden made a big splash about Apple getting into the employee home PC market the other day. Sure, I suppose there are people that would believe those fantasies. Not even Apple themselves think they could get more than 10%, at best, to go for their junk even if people had the choice. The majority of those 10% were brainwashed using Ipods anyway, and could be sold a 20th century typewriter for all that they know.

But here is what I found really troubling in the article, in a Dilbert sort of way: The IDG assertion is that Apple sales to businesses and as employee packages have traditionally been hampered by knowledgable people within organizations. Namely Tech Support and such. But no longer. Specifically, Human Resources divisions are said to have usurped their authority and added it to their already flimsy mandate. Great. Really great. Well, I guess that is what it takes to peddle Apple opiates and it shows in a roundabout way why Apple is an integral part, though at times merely a symptom, of the anti-technocratic ailment that has befallen society.

What a joke. Perhaps we should let Tech Support run the Human Resources division? If you don’t need tech skills and training to make tech decisions, why would you need social skills and training to manage human resources?