{"id":30569,"date":"2012-04-27T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=30569"},"modified":"2012-05-07T19:16:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:16:30","slug":"enterprise-cio-forum-converging-the-tablet-and-pc-the-fridgetoaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/enterprise-cio-forum-converging-the-tablet-and-pc-the-fridgetoaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise CIO Forum: Converging the tablet and PC &#8211; The FridgeToaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cio.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"enterprise cio forum\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28613\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Converging the tablet and PC &#8211; is it viable? Desirable? The FridgeToaster?<\/h3>\n<p>By John Dodge for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisecioforum.com\/en\/blogs\/jdodge\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise CIO Forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s eye-popping quarterly results tell many stories, but none more telling than the tablet becoming a fact of life in enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>With just a moderately interesting third rev in the iPad, Apple sold 11.8 iPads (a mere 35.1 million iPhones, too) in the first quarter. And a lot of them to CIOs handing them out to their end users.<\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=RIGHT><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisecioforum.com\/en\/blogs\/jdodge\/converging-tablet-and-pc-it-viable-desir\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Article originally appeared at enterprisecioforum.com. 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