IPad In Business Form

As IPad sales are on a steep increase in the US among its consumer market, the business market is also experiencing a great amount of interest in Apple’s new product. As reported in the article, IPad Leads Tablets in Workplace, the IPad is being utilized in two-thirds of the Fortune 100 companies. According to Apple COO Tom Cook, "I don't know about you, but I've never seen an adoption like this in my life in the enterprise -- enterprise is historically much slower-moving on adoption." The growth of the IPad within the workplace has been substantially on the rise because of its many uses to improve the way businesses run both physically and economically.

This new piece of technology not yet known to the world of its possibilities is slowly becoming a necessity of an easier business life. Replacing laptops, oversized computer desktops, and even the traditional paper and pen scheme, the IPad is revolutionizing the way people can record, analyze, and present data. Convenience and comfort seem to be traits associated with the IPad in the workplace, which makes for a more productive system. With the ability to travel with the wireless device is starting to be utilized in all different type of businesses. For example, health records, drug data, and patient histories are becoming more easily accessed through IPad by doctors because of the mobility it offers. More examples of great uses of the IPad come from brokerages using them in the field to update their clients electronically, creating an even greater means of communication. Laptops, hard to believe, are becoming in a state of being too big to carry around and do business wirelessly. The IPad can go where laptops can’t and the brokerage is a great example of this.

There a few problems that users that need to be dealt with though. Yes, we are in a growing technological world, but that does not mean we all know how to use up and coming technology. To a certain extent now, a vast majority of employees only know the workings of Microsoft Office. There is a learning curve that needs to be applied to the IPad since it is introducing a whole new and interesting method of working. As it does appear and does similarly act as a giant IPod, another profiting product by Apple, the IPad needs to be understood in order for the consumer to reach its potential use of it. With learning the basics of the IPad, also leads to the use of the different types of apps applicable on the IPad that are beneficial to business.

Can be seen as either an advantage or a disadvantage, the IPad in its most basic form is priced at $499 plus tax according to www.Apple.com. Instead of buying a laptop priced at approximately $1000 for starters, businesses can have more convenience buying the IPad. Though the IPad lacks all the opportunities a laptop has to offer, its offers mobility, a more compact size, and ease of use to businesses that are always on the move to run operations such as brokerages and the medical field.

In my opinion with an everyday changing world, the IPad will be more beneficial to businesses in becoming more efficient. Already at an unbelievable increasing rate, the IPad's sales to businesses clearly show that tablets will be essential to the business environment in the near future.

An example of the use of the IPad from a business point of views is located in the following video:

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