With all of the recent speculation and curiosity about the ipad, the April 3rd release is beginning to reveal some of the answers.
One of those questions is: how will the ipad pick up in the business world. For business execs who sit at a laptop all day, and already own an iphone for their times on the go, will the ipad bring real added value?
Andy Abramson’s blog post “My ipad Delivery Experience” describes the intense anticipation of one business exec’s ipad arrival. After reading his post, including all of the details of his UPS tracking, I wondered: how many other business execs could relay similar experiences of their own excitement?
For those skeptics of how business execs will perceive the ipad, here’s 4 sources to contemplate:
- Apple approaches the business population directly, in their dedicated web page called “ipad in Business.”
- Seth Weintraub (on Computerworld) commented on the “ipad in Business” site going live and details the factors that will make the iPad successful in the business world. He includes the following factors: support for Microsoft Exchange, Email/contacts/calendar synching support, security coverage, business apps development, iWork applications, and most importantly, Safari.
- Intermedia, the premier provider of communications systems for small to mid sized enterprises and the largest provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange, announced that its services will support the ipad. “Users can now take advantage of the same enterprise-grade Exchange services on the iPad that they expect in the office,” states the press release. Apparently Intermedia believes that the ipad will hit the business world, or they would not be supporting it.
- Apple Insider might say “I told you so,” reflecting on their January 2010 article about ipad’s target at business users. The article highlights the enterprise benefits of the iPad over the iPhone, such as the new iWork and Apple’s unified operating system that scales from the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad.
Do you disagree? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
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