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Gartner: There will be more Apple iPads than Blackberries in business within 2 years

Monday, October 22, 2012 · 4:31 pm · 22 Comments

“The market for business process services in the cloud will double to nearly $145 billion by 2016, Gartner senior VP Peter Sondergaard in the opening keynote session Monday morning at the Gartner Symposium IT Expo in Orlando,” Eric Savitz reports for Forbes.

“Gartner sees cloud technology as the foundation for the other key forces affecting enterprise IT at the moment: mobile, social and big data,” Savitz reports.

Some other key points from Sondergaard’s wide-ranging talk on the state of the IT landscape:

• In 2016, over 1.6 billion smart mobile devices will be purchased globally
• Apple iPads will be more common in businesses than BlackBerries within two years
• In 2016, half of all non-PC devices in businesses will be purchased by employees; by end of the decade half of all devices will be purchased by employees

More key points in the full article here.

Categories: News

Tags: business, BYOD, corporate, enterprise, iPad, iPad mini, IT, SMB

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22 Comments

Chuck

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 4:34 pm · Reply

Surface.
- chris
  
  Monday, October 22, 2012 - 5:10 pm · Reply
  
  what!? you work for Microsoft – owner of the stock maybe… have you seen one? why would someone spout out surface unless they had some sort of self interest motif…?
  - Chuck
    
    Monday, October 22, 2012 - 5:46 pm · Reply
    
    A fairly typical response from an Apple fanboy but entirely expected. For the record though I have and will never have a desire to work or invest in Micro$oft! I also have never seen the Surface in the flesh and neither have you so you can stop talking out of your iArse.
    - peterblood71
      
      Monday, October 22, 2012 - 8:53 pm · Reply
      
      Love your snooty undeserving air. Unless you’re speaking much as the dog did in UP, so UPChuck: “Surface!!” “Squirrelly!!”
      - Chuck
        
        Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 3:07 am · Reply
        
        You need help.
- The Other Steve
  
  Monday, October 22, 2012 - 6:08 pm · Reply
  
  All Chuck is saying is that Apple has a firm “surface” to stand on regarding their products in future business use.
- Laughing_Boy48
  
  Monday, October 22, 2012 - 8:03 pm · Reply
  
  You mean ZunePad? We all know Microsoft’s less than stellar history of trying to sell tablets to consumers. Have consumers changed that much this year or has Microsoft?
- kingmel
  
  Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 8:42 am · Reply
  
  Subsurface. Subterranean. 20,000 leagues under the sea. Good luck with that big paperweight, M$.
- RePlay
  
  Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 9:29 am · Reply
  
  Wasn’t that a failed psuedo-sci-fi show?
ob1spyker

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 4:34 pm · Reply

Yep!
Giblet

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 4:43 pm · Reply

Hate to break this to you, Gartner– but this has been the case for over a year already. I haven’t seen a BB being used at ANY company in the U.S I’ve been to for over 2 years. It’s a way GONE technology.
- 1Racer
  
  Monday, October 22, 2012 - 7:37 pm · Reply
  
  I’d love to agree with you but I have a Blackberry on my desk right now. I work at a very large global corporation and we are all blackberry. I mostly see blackberries in airports. They are not as common as iPhones and Android phones but more common than I see on the streets of the USA.
Alcancun

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 4:44 pm · Reply

Puhlease …..Surface????…there is someone you need to meet….you will make great friends… His name is Edward….
- chris
  
  Monday, October 22, 2012 - 5:11 pm · Reply
  
  nice Alcancun – the guys just a troll!
- Chuck
  
  Monday, October 22, 2012 - 5:17 pm · Reply
  
  No thanks..Edward can take a long walk off a short pier.
  The iPad only exists in business because M$ and OEM’s failed to come up with a good way of integrating the tablet into the workplace. The Surface Pro does have the protential to replace and makes an excellent alternative to the iPad in the workplace with managed environment integration and it does an iPad can and once more apps come online then it becomes more flexible. Perhaps battery life may not be as good and the retina display although very good is irrelevant.
  Pre-orders for Surface RT are selling out quickly as well in the US and UK.
  - peterblood71
    
    Monday, October 22, 2012 - 8:58 pm · Reply
    
    You make the same mistake as MS does of thinking everyone wants the same ol’ crap on the tablet as they did on their desktop. Hate to break this to yah Chucky but most people don’t NEED a tablet for much productivity. In business though time will tell. I still think iPad will continue doing well here too. As far as initial brisk sales the PC fanboys must drink their fill, but it’s a shallow well.
    - Chuck
      
      Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 5:22 am · Reply
      
      I never said anything about NEEDING a tablet. I also never suggested about having the “the same ol’ crap on a tablet as they did on their desktop” either :-S …I said about being in a managed environment! You just assumed that I was meaning about running desktop programs on a tablet…which is not what the surface pro is about…it just adds the ability to run desktop programs.
      Hate to break this to ya peterblood71 but you need to do your research on the surface models and (perhaps shock horror) try a surface out once available in an M$ store so you know what the enemy is up to. I predict you will hate it though.
SamLowry

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 5:02 pm · Reply

Gartner is just guessing at random, that is their business. They predicted, in 2009, a Nokia smartphone market share of 40% for 2012, and other jokes.
see:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2012/10/21/three-years-ago-gartner-predicted-apple-would-go-nowhere-in-smartphones/
- qka
  
  Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 2:13 pm · Reply
  
  I wish I could get paid to spout the intuitively obvious.
m159

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 5:21 pm · Reply

Perhaps because I’m in communications, but Apple iPads already vastly overwhelm BBs in the business.
tomL

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 5:38 pm · Reply

I work for a company (not in the buggy whip business) that has for years issued BBs to their managers. Since I work in a secure building where cellphones are not allowed , we have a table at the entrance where all employee phones are deposited. You should see all the pretty iPhones, a smattering of Droids, and even fewer berries.
Sharon Sharalike

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 2:05 am · Reply

This is true simply because in two years there will be at least one iPad in business.