“Apple will sell an estimated $19 billion in Macs and iPads to enterprises in 2012, a 58% jump over the year before, a research analyst said today,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.
“And in 2013, corporations will spend $28 billion on Apple computers and tablets, said Andrew Bartels, an analyst with Forrester Research,” Keizer reports. “‘The biggest disruptive force in the computer equipment market is not [the cloud], but Apple,’ Bartels said in a recent report. ‘Its rapid growth in the corporate market has been the big surprise of 2011, and it will be even more of a factor in 2012.'”
Keizer reports, “Bartels estimated Apple’s 2011 sales to enterprises at $12 billion, split evenly between Macs and iPads.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
the beginning of the end for Microsoft.
The end? I don’t think so. But it will hasten their decline.
Estimates like these, together with Microsoft’s pathetic showing at CES, are persuasive in that regard, even though irreversible erosion would take years.
The erosion might be due to a social process akin to physical processes like wedging or frost heaving, where a small but persistent force exerted long enough can do major damage. Clever Mr. Dediu just posted his idea of why this might be happening:
http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/10/enter-prise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Asymco+%28asymco%29