Tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices are making serious inroads into the business computing marketplace. Tablets in particular are seen as giving employees choice and flexibility in doing most of the simpler types of business computing. A recent bulletin from research firm Gartner, suggests that business leaders are open to the potential competitive advantage that mobile applications can bring. One result is their prediction that tablets are headed for the business enterprise "in a big way."
This potential is also behind the recent reduction in analysts' predictions of worldwide PC market growth from 9% to 4%. With Microsoft at least a year away from a tablet OS, and the larger PC manufacturer's having difficulty producing tablets competitive with the iPad, this gives Apple a head start on the future "business mobile" market..
Source: "Microsoft Could Lose More Than Consumer Market to Tablets," Information Week
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