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But large businesses represents less than 50% of the GDP (of either the U.S. or Europe). Contrarily to popular belief the real backbone of the economy is not "
by martinced 14y ago
But large businesses represents less than 50% of the GDP (of either the U.S. or Europe).
Contrarily to popular belief the real backbone of the economy is not "corporate america". They're just very vocal.
Think of it this way: BlackBerry was still ruling king in the corporate world (with some companies buying thousands of BlackBerries at once for their employees) and yet everybody knew the writing was on the wall: nothing would stop the iPhone and Android. What's the result now? Employees are crying to use their iPhone and Android phones at work and so they're allowed to.
I'm sure, say, corporate America is still high on Excel and Powerpoint and Exchange... But that is not exactly helping Microsoft deal with the fact that year-to-year sales of PCs worlwide have dropped 3.5% from 2011 to 2012 while, meanwhile, smartphones and tablets sales have skyrocketed.
- nicholassmith 14y agoOh I know that, but whilst the count for less than 50% of GDP they're also one of the biggest customer sectors for Microsoft, and one that is unlikely to dry up and disappear. They'll have a market there for as long as the market is there, and that's dependent on enterprise developers wanting to move development platforms to whatever the new hotness is. For consumers it's all a 'it depends'. It depends on whether it's good enough, rather than whether it does everything they could ever possibly need to.