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		<title>By: Three Disruptions in Technology, and How to Benefit &#8212; RoughlyDrafted Magazine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Three Disruptions in Technology, and How to Benefit &#8212; RoughlyDrafted Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Got Its Office Monopoly Jean-Louis Gassée Returns from Obscurity… to Talk About MobileMe Report: Mac adoption expanding in the enterprise 3: Fantasy Disruption.  There&#8217;s also a third type of disruption: the highly anticipated [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Got Its Office Monopoly Jean-Louis Gassée Returns from Obscurity… to Talk About MobileMe Report: Mac adoption expanding in the enterprise 3: Fantasy Disruption.  There&#8217;s also a third type of disruption: the highly anticipated [...]</p>
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		<title>By: beanie</title>
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		<dc:creator>beanie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why is Forrester Research paying Benjamin Gray to do Mac Enterprise research?  They are not.  The article is titled &quot;Corporate Desktop Operating System Trends, Q4 2007 Through Q2 2008: Windows Vista Deployments Are Finally Ramping Up, While Mac Continues Its Slow March On The Enterprise.&quot;  

http://www.forrester.com/go?docid=46545</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is Forrester Research paying Benjamin Gray to do Mac Enterprise research?  They are not.  The article is titled &#8220;Corporate Desktop Operating System Trends, Q4 2007 Through Q2 2008: Windows Vista Deployments Are Finally Ramping Up, While Mac Continues Its Slow March On The Enterprise.&#8221;  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.forrester.com/go?docid=46545" rel="nofollow">http://www.forrester.com/go?docid=46545</a></p>
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		<title>By: pdeguise</title>
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		<dc:creator>pdeguise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Apple&#039;s approach in the enterprise market of late has more been a &quot;softly softly&quot; approach, or perhaps even &quot;entry by stealth&quot;.

A lot of the established enterprise server/PC vendors - e.g., Dell, HP, IBM, etc., may accept competition with Apple in the consumer marketplace as unavoidable, but given their high domination of the enterprise market, Apple wouldn&#039;t benefit by being seen as actively trying to compete - yet. The slow/gradual penetration of enterprise customers via halo effects serves Apple well since they&#039;re not dependent on enterprise revenue streams. They can afford to wait for their visibility to increase in enterprise customers to the point where staff and management start actively planning deployment of Apple solutions.

Thus, rather than having to actively engage in competition in what is quite a cut-throat market, Apple can have customers bat for them.

Steve Jobs said that Apple TV is a &quot;hobby&quot; for Apple; one could argue that enterprise involvement is sitting somewhere between &quot;hobby&quot; and &quot;core business&quot; for them - it&#039;s at a good point where they don&#039;t have to invest a lot of work for the sales they make, their customers do much of the selling, and there&#039;s good money to be had by not having to enter into price-wars with competition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apple&#8217;s approach in the enterprise market of late has more been a &#8220;softly softly&#8221; approach, or perhaps even &#8220;entry by stealth&#8221;.</p>
<p>A lot of the established enterprise server/PC vendors &#8211; e.g., Dell, HP, IBM, etc., may accept competition with Apple in the consumer marketplace as unavoidable, but given their high domination of the enterprise market, Apple wouldn&#8217;t benefit by being seen as actively trying to compete &#8211; yet. The slow/gradual penetration of enterprise customers via halo effects serves Apple well since they&#8217;re not dependent on enterprise revenue streams. They can afford to wait for their visibility to increase in enterprise customers to the point where staff and management start actively planning deployment of Apple solutions.</p>
<p>Thus, rather than having to actively engage in competition in what is quite a cut-throat market, Apple can have customers bat for them.</p>
<p>Steve Jobs said that Apple TV is a &#8220;hobby&#8221; for Apple; one could argue that enterprise involvement is sitting somewhere between &#8220;hobby&#8221; and &#8220;core business&#8221; for them &#8211; it&#8217;s at a good point where they don&#8217;t have to invest a lot of work for the sales they make, their customers do much of the selling, and there&#8217;s good money to be had by not having to enter into price-wars with competition.</p>
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