Originally Posted By David Needle, TabTimes
Where are tablets headed? Most, if not all industry analysts, see the arrow pointing broadly up for sales in both the consumer and enterprise markets. But a new report aims to break out how enterprise adoption will play out in specific industries.
Tablets are one of hottest-selling devices on the market today. Exhibit A is Apple who’s iPad dominates the market. In fact, in yesterday’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he agreed with analysts that the market so far has been mainly an iPad market than anything else. Apple said it sold a record 15.43 million iPads in its most recent quarter, a 111% increase over the same quarter a year ago.
But competitors, led by a variety of Android-based devices, are starting to get some traction. Amazon, for one, says it has sold “millions” of Kindle Fire tablets since its release last November. And the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month featured an array of new tablet entrants.
Networking giant Cisco is attempting to quantify the enterprise market for tablets. So, the company spent the last several months of 2011 surveying 1,500 executives, middle management, salespeople and clerical staffs of medium to large business around the world. What they found was that, on average, enterprise IT shops handle one tablet request for every three smartphone requests across the world.
