“We’re coming up on the third anniversary of Apple’s release of the iPad, and looking back, one of the bigger surprises about it has been its strength in the enterprise,” Arik Hesseldahl writes for AllThingsD.
“As CEO Tim Cook points out nearly every time he speaks in public, most companies in the Fortune 500 are testing or deploying the iPad for use by their employees. And numerous enterprise software companies, among them SAP and Oracle. And numerous cloud software companies — Salesforce.com, Workday and NetSuite, to name only three — all support it,” Hesseldahl writes. “But is that a permanent state of affairs? There is at least one analyst who has decided that it isn’t. Patrick Moorhead — a former executive with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices who now runs his own research shop called Moor Insights and Strategy — has published a new white paper arguing that if ever there was a moment when the iPad’s dominance in the enterprise might face a challenge, it’s now.”
Hesseldahl writes, “Moorhead bases his argument — one that is admittedly hard to swallow, given the current state of play — on a few comparisons of the iPad to the Dell Latitude 10 and the Hewlett-Packard’s ElitePad 900, and the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2, all of which run Windows 8.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Nope.
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Moorhead needs to give more head to Steve Ballmer.
You have had a run of great posts without resorting to gutter speak. Try again please.
You can head a soccer ball, you can a search party, you can head off on a tangent.
Head can mean a lot of things. We all know what you think it means.
🙂 right
Sounds like Intel is paying for the analysis.
Moorhead is the token WinTel apologist over at TechPinions.
Yes duh. And the winner is the tablet that can use real files with pro programs.
I also considered the fact that IT RUNS WINDOWS 8 to be the reason NOT to use them. Running Windows isn’t the magnet it was before. It is kind of like wanting leprosy or some STD in your tablet.
I see….a “marketing type” that ran AMD into the ground. Let’s all listen to his words of wisdom.
I am astounded by the amount of sales reps that call on me that use iPads. They are being adopted in massive numbers. Microsoft is screwed, especially with Surface that has only wifi compatibility. What were they thinking?
HaHaHaHaHaHa!
Yes, I see more tablets in our enterprise that are not iPads. So what?
I have 20 sales reps calling on me every few weeks, 15 of those companies have or are adopting iPads for their field staff. I am just providing an observation you dickhead.
All of the strengths and benefits of iOS on the iPhone just become stronger on the iPad.
Now that MS released their Surface, some organizations might actually adopt it. In fact, a friend of my who works for another local government agency told me yesterday this IT people are taking away the iPads from his staff and replacing them with Windows tablets.
While it may be difficult for many of us who read MDN to understand, ignorance still exists in the world and in some organizations the stupid people run things.
Any tablet will only go so far in the enterprise.
I struggled to fit an iPad into my daily job. I finally gave up when I realized the few areas where it made sense for me were already covered by my phone.
Creating simple work orders, basic document editing and reviewing or inputting forms are where the iPad and other tablets shine.
There is still a lot of enterprise work that requires a truck.
Yeh, sure. Brain surgeons are going to switch to Winblows tablets for their scans; airlines are going to put their navigation tomes on Winblows; high end car companies are going to install Winblows tablets. And so on and so on. Suuuurree they are.
Windoze is as Windoze does!
I always felt sorry for anyone who had to use Microsoft Windows. But they ruled for decades. And are not going away anytime soon. Slow down? Probably. But not going away anytime soon. They’re just too entrenched in the business world. I especially feel sorry for anyone who has to soil an Apple product with Microsoft software. But you have to do what you have to do to make a living so I certainly understand. Having used Macs to make a living I have never had to use Windows except for a couple of occasions away from my own world. And that was scary! I’m that one half of one percent that has been able to use Macs forever. And I am so happy. Having said that, where the hell are my new Mac Pros? I need them now!!! Now dammit! Hey Tim, I’ll order them today. Get your shit together and make it happen fast. I may be a Mac guy but I’m no fanboy. No ass-kissing excuse making guy here. I call em like I see em. The only way a person should act. Otherwise you’re just a sniveling follower with no direction in life. Always be objective. Never be afraid to speak the truth. Don’t give a shit what anybody thinks. If you know you’re right that’s all that matters.
Balmier=marketing
Gm downfall= marketing
Samsung= marketing
Think santayana’s saying.