Apple OS X will be accepted as Windows

Apple OS X will be accepted as Windows by the end of 2014. By the end of next year Apple laptops and notebooks will be as well accepted by IT pros as their Microsoft counterparts. Apple's efforts to make its OS X operating system more compatible with the iPhone's, iPad's and iPod Touch's iOS, more consumers will bring OS X devices to work where IT will have to deal with them.

The application folder in OS X Mountain Lion machines like the home pages of iOS devices, as an indicator that Apple is trying to make the two platforms more alike. The MacBook Air in particular as a device that will arrive in corporate settings more and more as it grows in popularity. IT departments have already been forced to accept iPhones and in fact they are better accepted than Windows Phone 7 phones. The general attitude of IT pros toward Apple will improve.

By the end of 2016 more than half of all mobile applications used by businesses will be hybrid. That means businesses should shift their application strategies toward developing a single application code base that can be shared by Web, hybrid and native applications. The form of HTML5 application code wrapped within containers that adapt the applications to different platforms.