The ever - inquisitive ChangeWave Research has been digging deep into the iPad ’s place in the corporate humans . With a new survey completed in November , the marketplace research firm ’s alert center plow towards the iPad ’s current and future view in corporate circles , as well as how businesses are using their iPads now .
Among the respondents to ChangeWave ’s survey of 1,641 business IT buyers , 7 percentage say their party already supply employees with pad of paper . More interestingly , though , is that 14 percentage of them said their company plan to purchase tablets in the first quarter of 2011 , a huge potential leap in incorporated pad of paper usage in a thing of months .
Which tablets are these companies planning to purchase , you call for ? Even though the iPad is no longer the only Pisces the Fishes in this quickly expanding pool — competitors like the Windows - basedHP Slateand Android - powered Samsung Galaxy Tab are now uncommitted , andRIM ’s PlayBookscheduled for sometime in the first quarter of 2011 — Apple ’s tablet still dominates , with 78 per centum of respondents plan to buy iPads .
Of the iPads already employed in the corporate world , ChangeWave compare usage telephone number for various chore against a like sketch it took in August . The top three uses remain Internet access ( up from 55 pct in August to 73 percent in November ) , checking due east - mail ( up from 57 to 69 percent ) , and working aside from office ( up from 52 to 67 percentage ) . sale support and client presentations also saw modest growth , but the most interesting increment is in respondents who employ their tablet as a laptop replacing , which leapt from 25 to 38 per centum .
That last datum point should n’t be too surprising , though , as commercial enterprise have beenputting the iPad to workalmost since day one . Plus , analyst have been prefigure that the iPad and its challenger could eventuallyspell doom for netbooksandclobber PC sales in 2011 — and key business - friendly features in iOS 4.2 for iPad could n’t have hurt , either .
