Delta CEO calls Microsoft 'the most fragile platform' while praising Apple

Heh, I guess none of his apple computers are more than a few years old. My 2018 mbp (purchased early in 2019) stopped working in 2023, less than five years old. My windows machine from 2016 is still running fine. My son uses it for playing minecraft and other games.

This is just "Macs don't get viruses" all over again. I have to run Crowdstrike Falcon on my work-issued Macbook and it is an absolute piece of crap. The problem isn't Windows but Delta's own device management and fallback strategy.

crazy how many pro Apple stories I've seen come out surrounding a CrowdStrike problem. The spin is not subtle

Speaking of fragile, curious what they think about Boeing.

These were self-managed servers. Delta manages them, and Delta selected&#x2F;installed Crowdstrike. Delta had a poor DR plan, particularly around crew management disruptions (even in spite of other airlines going down in the last five years and it also costing THEM millions).<p>This is Ed Bastian deflecting. This type of disruption was foreseeable, and he had years of notice between the double Southwest crew management problems in 2022 and this outage.<p>While it was started by the Crowdstrike error, that took roughly 6-hours to resolve, the other week+ of Delta disruption (and 2K+ flights cancelled) was purely policy&#x2F;planning&#x2F;DR issues which the CEO is personally responsible for.<p>I legitimately believe Ed Bastian needs to fall on his sword for this one. You lose 500-million by gross incompetence you need to go.<p>PS - Apple also don&#x27;t even offer an appropriate product in this space, so this is also technologically ignorant. If he had said Linux or even AWS&#x2F;Google Cloud&#x2F;etc it would make SOME sense (still misses the point though).

Said CEO: <i>My sense is they’re probably the most fragile platform within that space. When was the last time you heard of a big outage at Apple?</i><p>I don&#x27;t even know where to start with this. Apple&#x27;s stuff doesn&#x27;t even fit in a rack anymore[0], extrapolate from there, Delta CEO. Even the interviewer thought to ask about the number of enterprise deployments of Apple gear versus Microsoft kit. &quot;Bastian avoided the question...&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not saying he&#x27;s wrong, but I <i>am</i> saying he wouldn&#x27;t know one way or another.<p>And about Apple: I haven&#x27;t verified myself, but others here on HN were saying that Crowdstrike&#x27;s stuff was apparently taking out Apple machines a month or two before. But no one noticed because...yup, the world doesn&#x27;t run on macOS.<p>[0] Whoops, forgot about the new Mac Pros: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;buy-mac&#x2F;mac-pro&#x2F;rack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;buy-mac&#x2F;mac-pro&#x2F;rack</a>

Time to bring back the Xserve?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xserve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xserve</a>

With Gravitons, Cobalts and Amperes, is there still a place for apple rack type servers?

Any closed source software is brittle, insecure, and under evolved.<p>Closed source ideas stay in a bad state for longer.<p>Open source evolves far faster.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breckyunits.com&#x2F;eta.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breckyunits.com&#x2F;eta.html</a>

Is Apple an Enterprise Platform? I didn’t think so.

&gt; When was the last time you heard of a big outage at Apple?<p>Um... earlier this week? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;07&#x2F;29&#x2F;apple-fixes-icloud-private-relay&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;07&#x2F;29&#x2F;apple-fixes-icloud-priv...</a>

Well, <i>go on</i>, migrate your entire business to Apple, then!<p>You&#x27;ll get forced to run Clownstrike on much shinier hardware, it will be fun!<p>But, by no means, step back, look at how you&#x27;re running your business, and decide it&#x27;s time to treat processes, never mind people, with the respect they deserve. Because the shareholders wouldn&#x27;t have it, you know...