Apple as the Last Hope for Growth in Business PCs

Nick Wingfield:

There was a time when spotting an Apple product in the average corporate workplace was only slightly easier than catching a glimpse of a unicorn. Now comes a report saying that Apple will most likely be the main reason the corporate computer hardware market will show any growth at all this year.

Why? The study includes the iPad, which is exploding in business usage.

And:

One of Forrester’s assumptions is that the coming introduction of Windows 8, the new Microsoft operating system, will not be the defibrillator for the market that many people in the PC industry are hoping it will be.

The times they are a-changin’.