Wall Street Journal reports that General Electric Co. has begun on a program to replace computers running Windows PC with Apple Mac or Macbook. General Electric Co. is 120 years old company with around 330,000 computers, most running Windows-based software on PC hardware.
Under the program GE employees can choose to have Apple’s Macbook or iMac (Desktop Computer) instead of a Windows PC. There are more than 1,000 MAC users that have benefited with the program since the program has launched.
Apple Sale Trend in Corporate Market 2012
Apple will continue it’s sale and revenue stream in corporate market in 2012. According to a report published by Forrester via 9to5mac, Apple will reshape computing equipment market as a whole.
Apple has been eating PC market share for the last few years and this trend will continue in coming years. There could be $9 billion worth of MAC and $10 billion worth of iPads sold this year. In 2013 this trend will continue and there could be worth $12 billion of MACs and $16 billion worth of iPads.
Analysts have been predicting that cloud computing — specifically, infrastructure-as a service (IaaS) — will reshape the server and storage market… Actual adoption of IaaS remains limited…The biggest disruptive force in the computer equipment market thus is not IaaS, but Apple. This is a surprise, because Apple has not and does not directly address the corporate market, while turning a wide variety of consumer technology markets upside-down. But its rapid growth in the corporate market has been the big surprise of 2011, and it will be even more of a factor in 2012.
