“For a company that doesn’t market its products to the business world, Apple has been enjoying a surge in sales among corporate buyers,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET.
“The growth of the iPad maker in the corporate market last year proved to be a huge surprise, according to the new Forrester report ‘Global Tech Market Outlook For 2012 And 2013,'” Whitney reports. “Eyeing the landscape for this year and next, the research firm expects Apple to become even more of a disruptive factor in the battle for IT spending.”
Whitney reports, “Based on its own data, Forrester believes the company sold $6 billion worth of Macs and an equal value of iPads to the business market last year. Looking ahead, Apple is projected to sell $9 billion worth of Macs and $10 billion worth of iPads to corporations this year, followed by $12 billion in Macs and $16 billion in iPads in 2013. In contrast, IT spending on Windows PCs and tablets is forecast to drop 3 percent this year and 1 percent next year.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: And every business that goes Apple will gain a significant advantage over their competitors that foolishly remain shackled to Microsoft’s and other companies’ inferior products.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Tayster” for the heads up.]
I’ve always found it rather scary that banks keep all our important confidential, personal, info on PC’s.
And you have to trust your health, life, and confidential medical records to PC’s in Hospitals and most (but not all), Dr.’s offices.
Scary stuff.
Excellent points…I have the same serious concerns.
My family doctor uses an iPad. I’ll stay with him…
Except that most EMR’s for iPad are really Winblows ports that still store all your data on a Winblows server.
Scary, isn’t it?
Most major banks, in Canada anyway, use mainframes, Unix and multiple, isolated backups. I don’t know about the healthcare system here.
Yes, i would bet it’s the same across all major business market segments. A Windows frontend backed (more like propped up) by a Unix backbone.
Also true for almost all Fortune 500, Financial 500, Health Ins. comps., Stock Market indexes, exc.
In other news, as the iPad sells millions, crows from the genus Corvus of the corvidae family, are suffering a sudden population decline
VERY funny!
By the way, how’s Pete…?
@Macraven. I was once unfortunate enough to end up in a cardiac ward where one of the patient monitoring systems was running NT. It was down because of a blown monitor and NT could not recognise the replacement monitor device. Blue screen of death ? It certainly could have been!
Life support equipment operated by Windows software is indeed scary stuff.
“Your respirator has noted that you’re trying to breath. Would you like to set up a template for that?”
“Your cardiac pacemaker has requested the next heartbeat. Cancel or allow?”
Time to bring back Xserve?
The usual motto comes to mind… “I like our strategy, I like it a lot”.