Nearly half of all iPads are now being bought by corporations and governments
iPad sales fell another nine percent in the June quarter down to 9.95 million units, but thatĀ drop would have been deeper had it not been for big corporations and governments, which are now buying nearly half of all iPads, according to a Forrester research quoted in a New York Times article titled āOnce Taunted by Steve Jobs, Companies Are Now Big Customers of Appleā.
āIn the primordial days of computing, IBM machines were so common inside corporations that there was a running joke in the industry: Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM,ā reads the report. āThese days, the same could be said about Apple. Even IBM is promoting Apple gear.ā