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Analysts: Apple’s ability to run Windows OS won’t help them in corporate space
Apple Computers recently shocked the world when they launched an application named Boot Camp. This application enable the owners of Intel powered Mac computers to install Windows XP on their machines.
This develop led to market analysts predicting that a lot more Windows OS users can now move onto the Mac platform without worrying about the applications which are exclusively available on the PC platform.
However, this might not be true for the corporate users and Apple might not succeed into expanding their customer base in the corporate sector.
Needham and Company analyst Charles Wolf spoke on this topic: “I’m relatively cautious about the corporate market, medium and large business in particular. The decision maker is usually not the user in those cases. My observations are that they are very Windows-centric and consequently the fact that the Mac can run Windows well at some point in the future probably won’t matter. In small business you might see some companies turn to the Mac as their primary computer, or they may be mixed environments, but there’s no way I could even guesstimate how much that would be. I think quite small, in point of fact.”
Many other market analysts agree with him and believe that individual users might see the benefit of moving to the securer Mac OS X platform but for corporate entities, the move would be a lot less attractive.