Apple Inc.'s iPad Starts To Rule Japan's Enterprise Market; 'Can Your Product Run On iPad?'

In September, there were reports, such as the one on Geek Snack, of tech analysts saying that Apple Inc.'s iPad Pro with its Pencil may not make the enterprise market happy, citing its expensive price and with only a few working environments compatible with iOS.

But Apple Insider recently reported that iOS already dominated 80 percent of Japan's enterprise market.

Big companies in Japan with large architecture, construction and engineering operations have shifted to standardized iPads and iOS for their enterprise tablets. Internet magazine Architosh reported that major German computer assisted design software developer Graebert, announced its support for iOS when it found that leading Japanese companies already standardized on iOS.

Apple's iPads have been seen as more ready for the enterprise market. Though lots of Android tablets are selling, including the ones used in "kids toys"or portable TVs, as per IDC, Android does not have professional backing in the corporate enterprise like Apple's iOS.

The rapid shift of corporate shift toward iPads happened quickly which can be credited to Apple's partnership with IBM. Big companies that currently use Graphicsoft ArchiCAD also adopted iPads to use a mobile companion app BIMx Docs.

Apple mentioned an enterprise iPad adopter, Japan's biggest homebuilder, Daiwa House Industry, and detailed how the firm uses custom iOS apps and iPads in design and building tools, internal operations management, customer home management and end user sales.

Apple's design of its iPads has been impacted by the enterprise market. The Cupertino tech firm will begin selling before the year end its new iPad Pro, a larger tablet which capitalizes on the strength of the app-ecosystem and comes with an Apple Pencil stylus to assist on annotation and drawing features that are better in larger devices.

IDC stats show that iOS already spreads 80 percent of the enterprise market in Japan. Yoji Ebata of Graebert Japan said, "Every company we visited said, 'can your product run on iPad?'"

Meanwhile, IBM has released more than 30 percent industry-specific apps in the enterprise, for iPad and iPhone users, from business travel, banking, field operations to healthcare, education and public safety.