Market research firm ChangeWave has released the results of its recent corporate IT spending surveys, which show increased interest in Macs—in fact, the highest ChangeWave has ever recorded. Small- and medium-sized businesses are also looking at Apple's smartphone—no doubt a halo effect brought on by huge increase in demand among general consumers. More enterprise IT operations plan to add new computers during the next quarter, increasing to about the same levels as ChangeWave recorded in May of last year. Apple is benefitting from the increased spending, as a full nine percent of those buying new computers plan to buy MacBook Pros, while another seven percent are planning to buy desktop Macs. That's roughly inline an 8-10 percent market share that Apple had been coming close to cracking in recent quarters, before the effects of the recession took its toll on Mac sales, and the highest percentage ChangeWave has ever recorded among corporate buyers. Click here to read the rest of this...
- Chris Foresman