Is there an iPad coming for every corporate desk?

An article hit my desk this morning (BusinessWeek Mag, January 29 issue)  Please give it a read, here is the link

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/it-looks-like-youre-trying-to-use-word-on-an-ipad-01192012.html

The article is about the rush to find a way to put Word, Excel, and other MS Office type programs on the iPad so the  Pad will better fit the corporate way of life.  The point is that corporations are finding their employees are getting ahead of them – the employees are using iPads at work, and more often they look up things on them, instead of the corporate issued PC.

Demand for tablet-ready corporate software is taking off.  After testing the waters in 2011, companies are expected to buy $10 billion worth of iPads this year, and $16 billion next year.  There is talk of “post-PC” productivity software business being a growth industry.

Are we leaving the PC?  The article says that, drug reps, for example, often get only 10 seconds with a doctor, they don’t want to spend that valuable time waiting for their notebook PC to boot up !   So they are buying and using iPads on sales calls. 

 Enjoy the article and post your comments.

My parting thought:  The PC is still king of the hill, but the iPad is a cute little puppy down at the bottom, and it is beginning to wag its tail.   

Someday soon, it might climb the corporate hill and challenge the aging PC.  

Apple stock keeps bouncing up around $500, from only $100 a few years ago. Apple is now the largest company in the world (based on the value of the stock X the number of outstanding shares = capitalization).  And it has the cash on hand to slay dragons. 

Some schools here in South Carolina have issued iPads to all students thinking they will replace books. Who would have thought this 5 years ago?