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84% of IT business buyers to purchase an iPad over the next 90 days

By Victor Hristov

Updated: Mar 13, 2012, 10:03 AM

84% of IT business buyers to purchase an iPad over the next 90 days

Demand for the iPad has been huge and you don’t need the studies to see it - shipping times for the third-gen iPad have slipped to a couple of weeks, and it’s only been a few days since Apple unveiled the tablet. Apple has also confirmed the obvious: iPad demand is “off the charts,” Cupertino said for USA Today.

But while this says a lot about general demand, what about the new iPad’s success with corporate clients? A new ChangeWave Research study of “1,604 business IT buyers” revealed that 22% of the companies have decided to streamline productivity by buying tablets.

84% of those companies are planning on getting the iPad within the next 90 days. Samsung-made Android tablets and the Kindle Fire only managed to get marginal piece of the pie with 8% and 6% respectively.

“Among the competitors, Samsung (8%) is down 2-pts and continues to remain a distant second in planned tablet buying… Other tablet manufacturers showing a decline in corporate tablet share since the previous survey include H-P (4%; down 1-pt), Asus (3%; down 1-pt), Dell (3%; down 2-pts), and RIM/Blackberry (3%; down 2-pts),” the study explains.

Corporate interest in the iPad is at record levels as even after the iPad 2 launch it was “only” around 80%, and now it’s even higher. A similar analysis by The Business Journal saw iPad usage growing four-fold among small business last year.

source: ChangeWave Research via 9to5Mac

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Victor, a seasoned mobile technology expert, has spent over a decade at PhoneArena, exploring the depths of mobile photography and reviewing hundreds of smartphones across Android and iOS ecosystems. His passion for technology, coupled with his extensive knowledge of smartphone cameras and battery life, has positioned him as a leading voice in the mobile tech industry.

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