So while Apple isn’t intentionally leading an enterprise technology revolution, its products are nonetheless catalyzing one. For instance, 88% of the Fortune 100 are testing or deploying applications on the iPhone last year. The downstream effect of more iPhones and iPads in the enterprise is more sales of Apple’s flagship products, with Mac worldwide sales growing by nearly over 28% year over year – as Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, puts it, “iPad clearly seems to be creating a halo effect for the Mac.”
Why does this matter? Well, once an enterprise adopts iPhones, iPads, and Macs en masse (as they continue to, judging by Apple’s most recent quarter), or even Android devices for that matter, many of the existing applications – be it a communication tool from IBM (IBM), or collaboration from Microsoft – serve less productive purposes given the new way people are working. The toolset today’s workers interact with on an ongoing basis is experiencing a wholesale transition – a transition that’s introducing us to the iEnterprise.
Apple stopped making XServes and started making iPads. Why didn’t anyone else do this?
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