“Those Windows XP boxes may still be whirring away in the forgotten corners, but Apple’s slice of the enterprise market has doubled across the last three years, JAMF Software will reveal, in a report to be published tomorrow,” Jonny Evans reports for Computerworld.
“The company commissioned Dimensional Research to survey IT executives at enterprise firms across the USA, finding that the number of Apple products used in these firms has reached new highs, driven by the popularity of its solutions among employees,” Evans reports. “9 out of 10 companies officially support Apple products – iPhones (91%), iPads (89%) and Mac computers (60%).”
“We’re not talking about a few devices, either: around 60 percent of enterprises support over 100 Apple devices while ‘nearly 2 in 10’ support a thousand Apple devices or more. 6 percent of those surveyed support over 5,000 Apple devices,” Evans reports. “This is a big change. In 2011 67 percent of companies said Apple comprised under 10 percent of end user devices. These days 35 percent say 25 percent of end user devices come from Cupertino.”
Much more in the full article here.
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Better late than never! It’s heading in the right direction. Macs are aimply easier to use and operate with less assistance.
I like Apple’s strategy a lot. It has been clear for half a dozen years.
Provide phone users with the ultimate “connections” and usability. I’m astonished no one has attempted to match Apple’s reach, but then I know how much that would cost and it is many billions per year minimum.
Apple still uses Windows ….
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2360671/oops-tim-cook-tweets-photo-of-mac-production-line-running-windows.html#tk.twt_jsnell
So what? I mean — look what Windows is running on..
Yep, it’s a Mac.
So what’s your argument, again?
I’d call that a chuck roast!
Well congratulations, you win funny person of the year for the most funniest comment ever…well done you.
Snappy comeback Chuckles.
Sense of irony I guess! You seem a little defensive/edgy jonny boy….awwww poor you. By the way, I never said anything about it being an argument for anything. Picture speaks a thousand words.
Not really. Picture says Windows runs on a Mac. Subtext is .. guess what.. buy a Mac. And look, there’s a picture of people making Macs with the guy who runs the company that makes Macs. Meanwhile Microsoft has sunk into infrastructure and the cloud.
That’s not a thousand words.
Nope. The subtext is that Windows is used to make Mac computers!
C’mon Ballmer, go find somewhere else to troll.
🙂
Enterprise is about software. There is a dearth of enterprise level Mac software out in the world.
In the enterprise, the hardware is and must be a commodity. Custom software stacks are one of IIS’s strengths.
Creating an All Mac enterprise is foolish. How about an Enterprise where every device is on an equal playing field?