{"id":3006,"date":"2011-08-31T14:32:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T18:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2011-08-31T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T18:32:34","slug":"how-apple-unintentionally-revolutionized-corporate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/08\/31\/how-apple-unintentionally-revolutionized-corporate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 &#8220;How Apple (unintentionally) revolutionized corporate IT&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2011\/08\/02\/apples-unintentional-corporate-it-revolution\/\">Forbes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So while Apple isn&#8217;t intentionally leading an enterprise technology revolution, its products are nonetheless catalyzing one. For instance,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/01\/18\/apple-q4-2010-enterprise-sales\/\" rel=\"external nofollow\" target=\"new\">88% of the Fortune 100 are testing or deploying applications on the iPhone<\/a>\u00a0last year. The downstream effect of more iPhones and iPads in the enterprise is more sales of Apple&#8217;s flagship products, with Mac worldwide sales growing by nearly over 28% year over year \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/159366\/2011\/04\/tim_cook_apple_android_japan_transcript.html\" rel=\"external nofollow\" target=\"new\">as Tim Cook, Apple&#8217;s COO, puts it<\/a>, &#8220;iPad clearly seems to be creating a halo effect for the Mac.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why does this matter? Well, once an enterprise adopts iPhones, iPads, and Macs en masse (as they continue to,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/money_co\/2011\/07\/apple-earnings-stock-record-high-iphone-ipad-mac-.html\" rel=\"external nofollow\" target=\"new\">judging by Apple&#8217;s most recent quarter<\/a>), or even Android devices for that matter, many of the existing applications \u2013 be it a communication tool from IBM (<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=IBM\" rel=\"external\">IBM<\/a>), or collaboration from Microsoft \u2013 serve less productive purposes given the new way people are working. The toolset today&#8217;s workers interact with on an ongoing basis is experiencing a wholesale transition \u2013 a transition that&#8217;s introducing us to the iEnterprise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apple stopped making XServes and started making iPads. Why didn&#8217;t anyone else do this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forbes: So while Apple isn&#8217;t intentionally leading an enterprise technology revolution, its products are nonetheless catalyzing one. 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Release an Apple Watch that is fully independent of iPhone. Position Apple Watch to handle more tasks currently given to iPhone.\u00a0 Release accessories that complement Apple's expanding wearables strategy. Position iPhone as an AR navigation device.\u00a0 Position iPad\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3648,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/apple-sold-3-million-ipads-in-15-daysnot-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":3006,"position":1},"title":"\u2605 Apple sold 3 million iPads in 15 days\u2026not 3.","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This post is for everyone but mostly for GadgetDon who is a friend that I've known for 9 years and is an expert in such matters and took my tweets earlier the wrong way. I still encourage everyone to read it. 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