“Apple has built up its empire as a consumer company. Over the past several years, however, the company has gradually been making inroads into the huge enterprise market as well. This started with phones and tablets at first, and now a new report commissioned by VMware claims that Macs are also gaining on Windows PCs in enterprise environments,” Srdjan Bejakovic writes for The Motley Fool.
“On the first-quarter conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared a slew of impressive statistics regarding Apple’s recent performance in enterprise. The iPhone, which is often Apple’s entry point into enterprise, is used in 97% of Fortune 500 companies. Numbers for the iPad were even higher at 98%, and Cook added that 90% of tablet activations in corporations are iPads. Also, among business application activations, 90% were on Apple’s iOS operating system,” Bejakovic writes. “Through a survey of IT administrators, VMware has found increasing enterprise support for Macs as well. According to VMware’s report, 66% of businesses are already using Macs in the workplace today. One notable example is Cisco, at which 25% of company-provided notebooks are MacBooks, according to the Wall Street Journal. Mac penetration in enterprise might get an additional boost this year, as many companies are finally investing in hardware updates thanks to Microsoft’s ending support for Windows XP.”
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