Enterprises Need to Adapt Apple iPad Rentals or Risk Being Left in Dust

As businesses consider whether or not they should bring iPads in to their corporate models, their competitors are already doing so.

Those that delay may regret it soon enough, at least according to Bob Evans, the senior vice president and director of InformationWeek’s Global CIO department. Evans said, “For those still in the skeptic’s camp, that’s going to become a very bad career dynamic in a very short time.”

So who is resisting the iPad so fervidly? Dell’s head of enterprise marketing, Andy Lark, is one. In a recent CNET article, Lark expressed feeling thankful towards Apple for creating a new, lucrative tablet market. But he seems to feel that the iPads are just too expensive to ever catch on in an enterprise capacity.

This is in direct odds with Apple’s feelings on the matter. The big red juicy fruit’s officials have come forward saying that its tablets are being used or tested at eighty percent of Fortune 100 companies.

While those figures certainly would lend creedance to iPads dominance of the business market, analyst firms are slow to get on board.

But actual software manufacturers aren’t afraid of coming forward. Citrix has said that its iPad app offering Windows desktop access has been downloaded over 700,000 times. And Good Technology, maker of enterprise software for mobile devices, claims that in the fourth quarter of 2010, over half of the activations it received came from an iOS platform.

With software developers reporting on the iPads success, sales booming, and an eagerly adaptive consumer market, the question becomes: how can Apple not succeed?

I suspect we will see something of a hiccup when Steve Jobs meets his own maker – but until then, Apple’s future is sky-high.

For those IT guys that are skeptical yet still, consider a bulk iPad rental before you get in to deep. We deliver globally, and a lot of our customers for this product happen to be large companies that just want to try the technology before making a long-term investment.

Not that we mind. It keeps us in business!