Anecdotally, this is starting to shift with M1 MacBooks, Graviton is looking more attractive for precisely that architecture parity reason for teams using majority M1 devices.
Note to apple: please start concentrating on the enterprise sector. We're dying over here. My Dell weighs 3x my personal M1 MBP, has a shitty keyboard with keys designed for Borrowers, the battery lasts 8 minutes and it reduces my sperm count if I put it on my lap. It feels like I have a ball and chain around my ankle 24/7. My only escape is WSL2 which is broken as fuck as well (can't run services, cron jobs, X problems etc) and we can't install a simple non-WSL VM on the node because Device Guard requires hyper-v to be enabled excluding sensible and pure VM options like VirtualBox. Docker for windows is a comedy of errors too.
6 years ago our department of 200 people "went rogue" and started provisioning Macs, because it was the only way we could hire developers and provide a good developer experience for the work we were doing.
This took some convincing, but it was possible. We agreed to be unsupported by the in-house help desk, but we had 2 people in IT that supported us for provisioning and fixing machines, and sorting out a small amount of required enterprise software like a Cisco VPN client and some fleet management background agents.
Otherwise, we self-organized support over Slack and in-office and also made use of Apple's business support directly.
As of earlier this year, our department is now over 600 people, and we've given our internal IT enough incentive to officially support Macs, which they now do, alongside Windows.
They use some kind of MDM software to manage and update and monitor our Macs the same as they do Windows.
There are also now additional much larger teams in the organization exploring Mac adoption where it makes sense for their developers too, and we could soon have thousands of Macs in use.
So it's definitely possible, even if you have to start small.
I sympathize with you though, it sounds like there's no will to do it, which sucks :(
That said, we also supply external monitors, keyboards and mice for anyone who wants one, and every worker has a discretionary budget to spend on home office accommodations (chair, standing desk, etc).
I also suspect if a developer specifically asked for a desktop computer and could (lightly) justify the need for it, we would get them a desktop, and a laptop.
Just send me a fucking workstation. Nope too hard.
Where I work, every conference room in every corporate office has a TV and a dongle that you can plug in via either HDMI or USB C.
2. I have found that face-to-face meetings where other people bring their laptops usually means that they get distracted and don't participate.
It’s also not like I wrote my first line of code in 1986 (Hint guess what the 74 in my name signifies).
Now that hopefully we can dispense with the idea that I don’t know how this computer stuff works. Please answer the question. How do I get everything I need from my computer to this thin client? How do I keep my environment in sync with this thin client?
You should just walk away.
Enterprise sales are where the customer is not the user. Apple does best when the user is the purchaser.
Also, I know for a fact that Macs are well supported at scale by many large tech companies including my own.
Granted, macOS changes a lot between each release but our company is paying for Docker Desktop licenses and the experience has really been disappointing.
We all use Macs at work so we knew it was a matter of time before we were on ARM. I’m glad we made the transition. M1 airs are a delight to work with and Graviton machines are great bang for buck.