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Apple's Next Multi-Billion Dollar Frontier

By Eric Bleeker and Jeremy Phillips | More Articles
February 10, 2012 | Comments (2)

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which senior technology analyst Eric Bleeker and Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Phillips discuss topics across the investing world.

In today's edition, Eric and Jeremy look at the Mac and its march into the enterprise. General Electric, the venerable symbol of industrial America is piloting a program of offering employees the choice of Mac computers. While GE's program is just one more sign of the growing "consumerization of IT," Apple's march into corporate IT is undeniable. Forrester Research estimates that Apple computers commanded just 3% of business spending in 2009. However, in 2012 it estimated the iPad and Mac combined will account for over 20% of IT spending. In 2013 that estimate jumps to nearly 30% of business spending! That opportunity alone could yield 25% of the additional revenue growth analysts believe Apple will achieve over the next two fiscal years.

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Report this Comment On February 10, 2012, at 11:21 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

Apple began life as computers for the small businesses. Apple always incorporate the highest quality with longevity and upward compatibility in mind. Apple's Unix is a purebred with the most robust and stable platform in the industry. Engineering sophistication was not part of the business computing for many years, but in the past 10 years, business enterprises have incorporated many engineering principles and practices into the business landscape that Apple's foundation is now what businesses require to evolve into the future full of extreme challenges that only Apple can help meet.
Report this Comment On February 10, 2012, at 11:26 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

I foresee joint ventures between Apple and Fujitsu in bringing its K petaflops supercomputers which are at least 40 times more powerful and faster than other competing supercomputers including the IBM supercomputers. In order to bring true innovations to the industries, petaflops supercomputers applications and technologies are required to compete and win against fierce global competitions with advanced technologies and applications which would completely obliterate the competitions. Apple and Fujitsu can pull off this true revolution in computing.

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