Apple representatives at a recent quarterly report conference expressed the hope that on the eve of the announced alliance with IBM, which aims at the integration of Apple products in the enterprise information ecosystem, will allow the company from Cupertino to stimulate demand for tablets from corporate customers.
Dell representatives , which managed more than twenty years at IBM, not sure that it will be able to effectively integrate hardware solutions in Apple's own software products. Complexity also increase with the lack of specific functions of Apple products, ensuring information security in areas such as banking. In general, Dell and IBM alliance Apple is not willing to consider seriously - according to representatives of the first companies to create an alliance statement was made for the sake of the press release.
BlackBerry, according to its CEO, does not consider friendship Apple and IBM promising.