The days of PC’s dominating office space maybe behind us. “Mac shipments grew faster than PC shipments for the 25th consecutive time during the June quarter”. Businesses are moving towards Mac, why it could be because of other Apple products more notably Apple’s iPhone and their iPad. What does this mean for PC’s.
During the June quarter, Mac shipments to business in the U.S. grew 56.6 percent, even as overall PC sales slipped 8.8 percent, according to Needham analyst Charlie Wolf. Meanwhile, Mac business shipments worldwide increased 22.1 percent, amid a 4.5 percent decline in overall business PC sales. That’s significant growth, though the Mac is still far, far outdistanced by its enterprise rivals. In the U.S., the Mac’s share of the business market was just 5.9 percent in June — and that was an all-time high.
But growth is growth, and given the overall decline in the business PC market, the Mac is clearly gaining traction there. There are a few obvious reasons for this. First, Apple’s OS X operating system has become increasingly more business-friendly over the years, and now plays well with Windows applications, thanks to software like Boot Camp and VMware’s Parallels. Second, the so-called “consumerization of IT,” which sees the rank and fileacclimatizing enterprise to consumer devices like the iPad and iPhone, and opening the door for bigger hardware like the Mac.
