Evans reports, “The iPad engages its users to move beyond mere productivity—applying technology to a something you already know how to do and delivering a more-efficient outcome—and into the realm of innovation by allowing people to create new ways of seeing things, new ways of presenting ideas, new ways of communicating, and new ways delivering almost every fathomable type of information, from business graphics to images to text to video… This is not just a new thing that Apple’s a little bit out in front with—this is a game-changer across multiple industries.”
“SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann plans to equip 17,000 SAP employees with iPads over the next 12 months,” Evans reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: With apologies to Axl Rose and Slash:
Welcome to the bloodbath
iPad’s got fun ‘n’ games
It’s got everything you want
Honey you know the names
It’s the device that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money honey
Apple’s got your disease
In the bloodbath
Welcome to the bloodbath
Watch it bring rivals to their sha na na na na na na na knees, knees
We gonna watch ’em bleed
They know where they are?
They’re in the bloodbath baby
They’re gonna die!
Down in the bloodbath
Welcome to the bloodbath
Watch it bring ’em to thier
It’s gonna bring ’em down
Ha!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Travis L.” for the heads up.]
The iPad Halo effect is going to be a lot stronger than the Mac, iPhone or iPod effects in a couple of years.
that’s a lot of iPads.
With apologies to Dylan and Guns N’ Roses….
Mama, take this Droid from me
I can’t use it anymore.
The 7” screen’s too small for me
I think Eric Schmidt’s poopin in his drawers
Eric’s poop, poop, poopin’ in his drawers
Poop, poop, poopin’ in his drawers
Poop, poop, poopin’ in his drawers
Poop, poop, poopin’ in his drawers
Stevie, I should’ve listened to you
Droid tablets will leave you wanting more
I should’ve bought an iPad or maybe two
Instead I’m pooping in my drawers
Eric’s poop, poop, poopin’ in his drawers
Poop, poop, poopin’ in his drawers
Poop, poop, poopin’ in his drawers
Poop, poop, poopin’ in his drawers
@ Tetrachloride
I think it already is. In desktops, the Mac always had competition (however worthy) from cheaper WinTel systems. Likewise, the iPhone had an intrenched BlackBerry to pry out of corporate user’s hands. The iPad stands alone, for a good long while yet, and the Android tablets are going to have to be a lot better than they are now to ever put up a real challenge. They can’t compete on price – this isn’t the high-volume cheapo box business. It’s one of manufacturing and component supplier efficiency the no one else can match.
Welcome to the bloodbath, indeed.
Well, the iPad is going to force the laptop price point as a PC purchase for business to become mute. Why buy a laptop when an iPad can cover nearly or all that a employee requires. Oh, at a lower cost. Then all that is required is a network connect and boom- IT has more Macs than PC’s.
The real Trojan Horse is not desktop hardware, rather the mobile products.
Just imagine what Apple has planned in two years. A cloud based office based on the iPad3?
How can companies install custom apps on the iPad without having to go through the app store (and thus making it available to everyone else)?
When your competition equip their employees with iPads, you will have to also. Now the enterprise race is on.
Jd,
Companies can do that now with the iPad, the iPhone and for all we know, the iPod touch.
Get with the program.
Thanks Big Als
@JD
They can also remotely install and delete apps on the devices they’ve deployed without the user having to do anything (and I think remotely lock/wipe/locate/etc).
“This is not just a new thing that Apple’s a little bit out in front with—this is a game-changer across multiple industries.”
(Hell yea)
All Aboard my friends, the Train is Leaving the Station and it’s a one way Trip.
Up up up, Etc etc. i guess u get the Message.
@MDN
On behalf of Axl and Slash your apology cannot be accepted.
If Apple is smart…and we all know they are…they have already been working on the iPad Pro.
Specs: 15″ Retina Display Screen
Hybrid OS-X/iOS operating systems
Up to a 256mb SS Drive
Up to 4-GB RAM
Standard 3G Capabilities
USB and later Lightpeak Port(s)
WIFI
Less Than 2 pounds
“They can also remotely install and delete apps on the devices they’ve deployed without the user having to do anything (and I think remotely lock/wipe/locate/etc).”
The feature has been available since iOS v2.0, and has been further improved in 3.0 and 4.0.
Few people know about it, since it doesn’t concern them.
Thanks, Observer
This is huge. Along with IBM, SAP defines the term ENTERPRISE. Virtually all major Fortune 500 enterprises use SAP software, so the impact of SAP adopting the iPad will have a tremendous influence on other big enterprises. This is how Apple gets into the enterprise – not the server backend.
@alexkhan2000 – good call. I was thinking they’d be influential, since so many use their software.
A friend of mine’s older brother partied with Axl Rose at Purdue University when he was still William (Bill) Bailey and was a high school drop out. All he talked about was becoming the lead singer in a heavy metal band.
True story.
Build it and they will come.
When declaring the 7″ pads DOA SJ said that 10″ was the ‘smallest’ you could go — leaving open the option for larger iPads. i.e. Laptops will be open to even more of an attack in 2011…
Izzy wrote that too…
Funny how most of us have been saying, “This is just the beginning” since 1997. Apple has gone for a less than $10 billion a year company to this FY a $65 billion company. This next year will see Apple’s revenues cross the $100 billion dollar mark.
In 1998 Steve Jobs told a group of engineers at Apple that, “In ten years Apple will be the biggest player in the Consumer Electronics industry”.
Not sure what you all think but my money is on this guy becoming something important one day. Just a guess sure.
.. and where are all the IT doofuses telling us Apple will NEVER make it in enterprise without servers?
Servers? Where we’re going we don’t need servers!
The killer app for the iPad is the ESDK. Any enterprise worth its salt will quickly realize that to win and maintain clients, you will need to deliver your products including specifications directly to your client as quickly as possible.
The quickest & easiest way to do that is with an app that can be pushed into your clients iPad.
We have just seen BMW do that, we have seen Mercedes finance do that, we see the BBC do that with Formula One broadcasting and we now see SKY advertise their programs with an iPad, the one with the Wolf reading ‘Little red Riding hood’ on an iPad.
Some Tech Company or other will produce a very closer match to the iPad eventually, but will they be able to deliver an ESDK? and if they do, will there be a market for them? I imagine that by then Apple inc. will be mopping up the soup bowl with a freshly baked chunk of crusty bread.
Saps at SAP.
Enterprise always attempts to use Apple consumer level products and when they run into problems or need some special adjustment, Apple just ignores them in favor of their larger, more profitable, inflexible consumer market.
SAP would be better off with a third party solution on a open to adjustment pad like device.
Eventually Linux will arrive for “pads” even in the form of Android, that would give all the flexibility enterprise needs.
Hey SAP! Quit trying to adjust a consumer level device and software to enterprise use, it doesn’t work over the long term!!