Macs Landing on Corporate Desks, Led by iPhones and iPads

in past 5 years, apple's push enterprise has been led iphone , ipad. corporate departments, long dominated blackberry, becoming more receptive ios products, when users given choice platform use.

in addition ios driving apple's sales -- accounting two-thirds of apple's revenue in fact -- ios's corporate success driving enterprise adoption of mac. wall street journal writes of apple's growing success in getting mac onto desks of corporate employees. ge has more 1,000 mac users under year-long pilot project allows employees choose use macs instead of pc's, without significant knowledge of program inside ge. company has 330,000 computers, vast majority running windows.

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ge started offering employees iphone alternative blackberrys in 2008. now, says 10,000 ge employees carry apple smartphone, compared 50,000 using blackberrys.

fairfield, conn., conglomerate hasn't trumpeted apple option computers , laptops internally, , result employee awareness limited.

staffers across ge businesses eligible long there aren't security clearance issues, such devices defense work, or big compatibility problems needed software.

"all businesses participating @ level in making [option] available employees," said greg simpson, ge's chief technology officer.

"to find out support apple, support iphones, support macs, take away 1 question people, 'are contemporary company or not?'" mr. simpson said. "i think recruiting-positive thing."

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forrester research estimates apple sell $9 billion in macs , $10 billion in ipads corporations year, 50% 2011. forrester anticipates spending on pcs , tablets made other companies decline 3% $69 billion.

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