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Posted on 12/17/2010 3:46:05 AM PST by Swordmaker
Apple is set to cash in, with nearly eight in 10 businesses opting for iPads, survey says
The number of corporations arming workers with tablets will double early next year, a research firm said today, citing its recent survey of more than 1,600 IT buyers.
The November poll by ChangeWave Research showed that Apple's iPad will remain the dominant workplace player even as historically strong enterprise players like Hewlett-Packard enter the market.
Calling the demand for tablets "explosive," ChangeWave reported that 14 percent of the businesses polled said their firms are planning to buy tablets for employees in the first quarter of 2011. Currently, about 7 percent of all companies polled by ChangeWave said that they provide some workers with tablets.
"The total number of companies making use of tablet devices is set to double in just the next three months ... an explosive surge in demand going forward," said Paul Carton, ChangeWave's head of research, in a Wednesday note on the firms' site.
"This can be a monstrous market," said Carton in an interview later Wednesday. "What's striking about the survey results is the intensity of the leap in demand. It was much more than what we were expecting."
The 7 percent of enterprises currently handing out tablets was a one-point increase from a similar ChangeWave poll in August 2010.
Apple's iPad will continue to control the business tablet market, overshadowing relatively new rivals from Dell and HP, and the not-yet-released PlayBook from Research in Motion, the Canadian company best known for its BlackBerry line of smartphones.
Of the companies that said they plan to purchase tablets in the first three months of 2011, 78 percent tagged the iPad as their choice. Dell, HP and RIM were essentially tied for second place, with Dell and RIM getting 9 percent of the votes and HP, 8 percent.
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I have no doubt their sales are going to be robust it's just.....right now the hype seems way over the top.
agree - people where I work want them but cannot give a valid reason for the puchase when pressed. For now, no Flash support, camera and can’t run Office, but they “need” one.
That would be a device worth getting.
My bet is on Apple doing it but, it may be a Windows tablet that gets it going.
I didn’t know why I needed one when I bought one either. Then I discovered all sorts of reasons to own it. I carry ir everywhere now and use it on and off all day.
I mentioned this on another thread. But in my business [trading], that I can do trading on the tablet. In fact, one firm I know says it is releasing a trading app for institutional traders next month.
And later on I spoke with one of the largest institutional brokerage houses about trading on the iPad. They said they too are developing an iPad app for trading and is configuring their website so that it can be accessed by Safari which was hitherto impossible.
My sales contact at Thompson Reuters said that most people at their firm were given iPads and she installed about half dozen Thompson Reuters apps on my iPad.
And my firm gave out iPads and cases to about 30% of the employees.
Something is happening.
The final frontier... ;’)
Agreed. Admittedly, I live 'way out in the boonies in "Texas' Appalachia" ;-) -- but every kid here from seventh grade up is issued a MacBook, and even toddlers seem to have cellphones...but, I have yet to see a real, live iPad...
Well, Apple still has handwriting technology left over from the Newton days — and I would bet they have had some folks improving on it all along. (Not that my Newton made my handwriting any easier for me to read... LOL!)
I am curious, why do you always post apple news? Do you own a lot of stock in Apple?
I see them fairly often. But then, I’m in the city. And I see them more often in coffee establishments that have free wifi ... anywhere you’d usually see people on laptops.
And sometimes I mistake them for Kindles and Nooks.
Swordmaker has stated repeatedly that he does not own AAPL. And there are hundreds of people who asked to be on the Apple list.
I’m one of the people that requested to be on the ping list. Swordmaker is doing a good thing for those interested in all things Apple. I used to own Apple stock, bought a lot in the single digits and teens before splits. I may never forgive my wife for making me sell it as it hit a hundred - she said it peaked and Apple probably wouldn’t grow any more. Now it’s several hundred and some analysts are predicting it may hit 1000. I don’t know about that, but I made a ton of money off Apple and have almost 20 of their machines since 1978, so I am interested in what Apple does.
Same here. My iPad is an absolute joy to use anywhere, particularly in airplanes (offline) and waiting rooms. However, access over AT&Ts 3G is slow compared to the wifi I get at coffee places, a really good reason why people are in there with iPads.
I guess mostly because the people on his ping list want him to.
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