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I'm happy to see a strong enterprise ready entrant in this space. It sure isn't iOS devices with have a really bad bug with Exchange 2010 SP1 ActiveSync.
My users with Android devices aren't seen meetings randomly disappear from their calendars. And, yes, we have tickets open with both Apple and MS on this.
My users with Android devices aren't seen meetings randomly disappear from their calendars. And, yes, we have tickets open with both Apple and MS on this.
If we could do a scientific poll to find out how many of the people who have purchased the Apple iPad so far got it primarily to use for business, I suspect the number would be at least 50%.
Since there wasn't an actual survey, scientific or otherwise, and since there are no numbers to go with the premise that iPads are being used in the enterprise, I would call most of the subject matter in this blog to be very suspect, and mostly based on guesswork.
That Samsung would be trying to sell to the enterprise is no surprise, since any other player in the field would be doing the same, including the Android tablet makers and Apple with its iPad. It could also be that the enterprise clients are just waiting for the Windows 8 tablets which might be a lot easier to connect with everything else that they already have which is a Microsoft product. But, I would be just guessing, like the author of the blog above.
Since there wasn't an actual survey, scientific or otherwise, and since there are no numbers to go with the premise that iPads are being used in the enterprise, I would call most of the subject matter in this blog to be very suspect, and mostly based on guesswork.
That Samsung would be trying to sell to the enterprise is no surprise, since any other player in the field would be doing the same, including the Android tablet makers and Apple with its iPad. It could also be that the enterprise clients are just waiting for the Windows 8 tablets which might be a lot easier to connect with everything else that they already have which is a Microsoft product. But, I would be just guessing, like the author of the blog above.
... as a commercial. It saddens me to see how much of this site has been reduced to plugging their advertiser's products.
I am not so sure that at least 50% of the iPad purchasers are buying it for business. It's certainly not true at my work (BioTech). I know of 10 people at my work who have iPads. Only one of them brings it to work. 7 of the 10 people work in IT so if anyone would see a use for it at work, you would think it would be them.
Most of them call it what it is - a consumer device not an enterprise device and leave it at home.
Most of them call it what it is - a consumer device not an enterprise device and leave it at home.
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