Josh Ong
The results were published Tuesday in a quarterly Mobile Workforce Report from iPass, a leading provider of enterprise mobility services. The report's survey, which took place in July, included over 1,100 mobile enterprise employees from North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Mobile employees are defined by iPass as "any worker using any mobile device (including laptop, netbook, smartphone, cellphone or tablet) who accesses networks (other than the corporate LAN or WLAN) for work purposes."
Of the employees surveyed, 9.3% have an iPad, 6.8% have a tablet PC, and 1.7% have both. 26.3% of respondents are planning to purchase or receive an iPad in the next 6 months, compared to 6.9% planning to get a tablet PC.
When further questioned about how they would use an iPad or tablet PC, the overwhelming majority of the respondents said they would use the devices for at least some work. Of the 50% of mobile employees surveyed who either already have a tablet PC or iPad or are planning to buy one in the next 6 months, over 90% expected to use the devices for work.
According to the report, employees who pay their own mobile phone bills were more likely to already have or plan to buy an iPad.
The Mobile Workforce Report survey results coincide with a report by The Wall Street Journal Tuesday highlighting growing iPad adoption rates among IT departments at companies.
In a survey of its customers in June, Citrix found that 80% of its business users have plans to purchase and use an iPad for business.
During an earnings call in July, Apple announced that over 50% of the Fortune 100 are currently deploying or testing the iPad.
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You know how the dramatic icon of a researcher has forever been the guy or gal in the lab coat with the clipboard? Throw that one out the window. Now all they need is an iPad with some sort of suggestive form showing on its face.
Apple has single-handedly killed the clipboard industry.
You know how the dramatic icon of a researcher has forever been the guy or gal in the lab coat with the clipboard? Throw that one out the window. Now all they need is an iPad with some sort of suggestive form showing on its face.
Apple has single-handedly killed the clipboard industry.
Well this is good. First the iPad was going to take over notebooks. Slate computing was going to kill the notebook market. Then when that didn't happen it was a Kindle Killer. Now that the Kindle is still around we are now looking to take over the clipboard market.
You can at least multitask on a clipboard so why don't we at least wait for that update before killing the clipboard market.
"The results were published Tuesday in a quarterly Mobile Workforce Report from iPass"... iPass
- Really?
"Changing platforms (e.g., from iPhone to Android) is
fairly seamless. Vendors who believe they can lock in
share are overestimating the loyalty of the consumer
market, and underestimating the power of the business
market."
Not sure if I agree.. as my investment in purchased App's is a pretty good lock in (no one wants to spend money twice), but I guess it just underlines that it (slate/tablet devices) are a new and fluid market and while Apple are an early leader, there is room for growth and change.
(plus you can choose your statistics and quotes to suit your argument!)
"Changing platforms (e.g., from iPhone to Android) is
fairly seamless. Vendors who believe they can lock in
share are overestimating the loyalty of the consumer
market, and underestimating the power of the business
market."
i also don't agree. there are core apps on my phone that i wouldn't switch unless there were good alternatives on the other platform. This is exactly what apple is fighting for, unique experience and not the one app all platform strategy that adoble was trying to push out.