IT DOESN'T MATTER

      “IT Doesn’t Matter” is an interesting article. What the author is trying to say make a whole lot of sense. Looking twenty, thirty years back from now, IT would definitely give a company an advantage to get ahead towards its sales and profits. With today’s technology, new IT are easy to replicate then distributed among companies as generics. Instead of companies building their own software from the ground up to set apart from each other, these companies would purchase the same already-made operating systems. This action would in fact make IT less likely to help one company to have an advantage over its competitors.

      New IT isn’t as essential as one would think. The article is right that companies shouldn’t invests too much into recent IT thinking it would help them deliver a higher economic returns. Instead, companies should wait until the new IT drops its prices then go for an upgrade. An example of this would be video cards for computers. The most recent video card that was introduced from NVidia is the GTX980 that costs around $520. The card is able to run high end games on 4K monitors smoothly with no delays. $520 is a steep price for just one video card, excluding enthusiasts, this graphic isn’t essential for most gamers. Most casual gamers does not play games on 4K monitors due to 4K monitors being way overpriced. So if an individual who’s looking to build his/her gaming rig to play on a regular 1080p monitor, he/she would be unnecessarily investing too much if he/she were to buy this card when there are way cheaper cards that would run games on ultra-setting at the same performance on your regular monitors. Now if the individual is really interested in getting the card, he/she should wait until the prices of 4K monitors and the price of this card to significantly drop. That is why the author is absolutely on point when he listed that businesses spend way too much purchasing new, better performance PCs to replace the older models. Yet, most of the workers uses these computers just to use simple applications like word processing, spreadsheets, email, and Web browsing. Newer IT doesn’t matter anymore due to the lack of new essential features, high price tags, and glitchy upon released. Companies using older IT would still be able to have their business running while saving money on utilities.

     On the other hand, as what we discussed in BUS 188 class about the essential roles of IT, this article seem a bit against those concepts. We cannot imagine how our life would be without IT while it already turns out so horrible without internet connection for only a few hours. Nowadays, people try to do as many as things online with paperless such as shopping, entertaining, learning etc. Due to big demand from users all over the world, every companies and firms work nonstop on developing and upgrading new technologies. For instances, Apple releases their new iphones every Fall, though some customers already had the previous version, they still want to upgrade to the latest one regardless not big differences. IT in reality plays an indispensable factor in term of competitive advantages among companies around the world.