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With iPad, Has Apple Won the Enterprise?

15.03.2012
As Apple's [AAPL] latest goes on sale in the U.S. and nine more countries at 8 a.m. Friday (), it seems some of the biggest U.S. corporations will be joining consumers to get hold of some. Indeed, the most recent reveals 18.48 % of businesses intend on purchasing an Apple tablet in the current quarter.

The survey of 1,604 business IT buyers reveals that more than one-in-five companies (22%) say they'll be purchasing tablets for their employees during the quarter, and 84% of these will plump for an iPad. Put these figures together and you can quickly figure out that 18.48% corporate number.

Surely that must be good news across the wider tablet industry too, right?

Not so. Without exception, every other manufacturer has seen a decline in corporate demand for their products:

RIM now holds just 3% of planned future tablet sales, down from 5% in a November 2011 Changewave survey.