Apple’s iPad will be a tempting business tool for mobile professionals, claim analysts. Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler said that the tablet will catch on among mobile professionals, who comprise 28 percent of the enterprise workforce. Corporate employees will buy iPads and then use them on the road as they travel from company headquarters to remote offices, or from one business meeting to the next. Schadler also believes the iPad could pressure Google to improve its Android development platform, setting up a potential duel between Google and Apple.
– Apple’s new iPad will be a tempting business tool for mobile
professionals, claim analysts who study technologies geared to boost enterprise
productivity.
Despite demonstrations from Apple CEO
Steve Jobs that portrayed the iPad as a media consumption device, eWEEK tech analyst Cameron Sturdevant…