Apple Lands Another Industry Giant

By Eric Bleeker and Jeremy Phillips | More Articles
February 8, 2012 | Comments (6)

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Apple continues its stunning rise up the ranks of corporate America. Today, Eric and Jeremy look at Apple becoming the mobile handset provider of choice at Halliburton. The fact that Apple is becoming the mobile choice for an industry like oil and gas shows how corporate America has shifted from an emphasis on reliability in areas like messaging (where Research In Motion is dominant) and toward platforms that support their applications.

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Report this Comment On February 08, 2012, at 8:40 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

I have to say this, Apple Computers predated IBM PC by 6 years, the very first personal and business app was the Wordstar, and later, VisiCalc which are the very ancestors of Microsoft Office Excel and Word. Apple IIc was pioneer to computer programming languages Pascal and Basic. IBM and Microsoft copied Apple's business practice. Apple had always been business driven. 34 years later, even as Steve Jobs has passed away, Apple is more business driven than ever, and surely, Apple will dominate the business enterprises as well as the consumer markets.
Report this Comment On February 08, 2012, at 8:54 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

Computers have been created for use because of two things: speed, and volume of data. Mainframes have ruled the business world for years and continue to do so. As Cobol and PL/1 fail to fullfill new enterprise missions, and Visual Studio fail to innovate meaningfully, Apple is now mandated to carry the movements forward whereas the others stagnate. For many years the businesses had paid all their attentions on cost cutting and maintaining status quo, it's akin to the horse dealers maintaining their status quo during the industrial revolution, whereas Apple was making automobiles. The PC and other 'enterprise devices' are like the horses, and the Apple machines are like the automobiles during the industrial revolution. Apple will flourish.
Report this Comment On February 08, 2012, at 9:02 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

Apple has never been chicken, Apple has always been at the forefront of science, the very spirit of Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs has brought the spirit of Thomas Watson of IBM to Apple, making machines that benefit the masses. One step beyond Thomas Watson is Steve Jobs' American spirit over Watson's international spirit, bring Apple to the American ways of innovation. Whereas Thomas Watson was in the spirit of making internation machines based on common technologies, Steve Jobs was in the spirit of making the very best machines can be in relation to the human beings. It is not a matter of consumeritizing the IT at all, it is a matter of making the human / machine relationship as meaningful as useful as possible. What is consumeritization? it is a hoax.
Report this Comment On February 08, 2012, at 9:12 PM, iphonerulez wrote:

I don't care whether Apple dominates in the corporate world or not. I'd just like them to get an equal chance in a corporate world filled with IT personnel that would rather keep the Windows paradigm going forever without change. If Apple can get a 30% hold in corporations I'll be extremely happy as an Apple shareholder.
In this day and age, there shouldn't be any reason why iPhones, iPads and iMacs shouldn't be allowed to take the place of a few Wintel PCs or Windows Phones or Windows tablets otherwise, it might just as well be considered outright discrimination against a good company.
Report this Comment On February 08, 2012, at 11:37 PM, etgh wrote:

This is fantastic !
Haliburton employees will now excel at Angry Birds and other games to be the envy of any Fortune 500 company !
Can you imagine when they go to their customer offices and demonstrate their prowess at these games ? Their customer will just love it !
Look out world, Haliburton will have over 600,000 games at-the-ready to make your company's employees proficient gamers to !
Report this Comment On February 09, 2012, at 10:11 AM, infektu wrote:

Indeed, the oil boys need apps! Nothing better than a shot of Angry Birds after the morning coffee...
@iphonerulez
OMG, Apple is discriminated against! They are not "allowed" into corporations for obscure reasons and not reaching the 30% threshold set by iphonerulez they can not make him happy as a shareholder.
Somebody please change this! Flip a switch, do something! Somebody, now!

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