Jonny Evans, writing for Computerworld:
Apple is on the cusp of gaining the kind of market command it has not held in over 20-years, with 67 percent of enterprise IT professionals believing the Mac will “cut into PC share over the next three years,” according to a JAMF Software survey.
This IDC chart confirms that Mac market share has already regained the market position it last enjoyed in 1995, regaining 8 percent of the overall market on significantly higher unit sales. Meanwhile, as the PC market overall contracts Apple’s overall share continues to climb. Ironically, it appears enterprise sales will drive Cupertino forward even as alternative platforms fade into the background.
Doomed.
Anecdotally I would agree with this. I see a lot more Macs (and iPads) in the corporations I go into. MS Office is just fine on a Mac and most enterprise apps are now browser based. Translation -> doesn’t require IE6 or some evil ActiveX piece of shit.
It doesn’t hurt that most people in NA use iPhones at work. The halo effect extends to the enterprise.
great, more malware coming our way.
Glass half empty kind of guy?
the classic myth of security by obscurity…. no, OS X hasnt been less vulnerable to attack because nobody was using it. its less vulnerable to attack because its a better platform. UNIX was built multi-user by design and has been around for a long time…
And then there are days I wonder if I was born too early.
I have noticed that Android users have been shut out provided they updated to a certain version. iOS? No problem – kept being supported without a hitch.
Maybe Big Enterprise finally is catching on to the adagium that hardware is cheap.