Banks chuck out their PCs and go Apple instead

I think we will increasingly see banks let staff use whatever they want.  Instead of focusing on locking down the hardware, they will focus on securing the content.  We are seeing evidence of this already with a lot of banks developing email systems that staff can use on their personal device, or being able to connect remotely from their home computer - whatever that is. 

I think you are right. We live in an open world now, control is getting harder and harder, no matter how hard the banks try.

Guess the Lemming banks will get there in the end spurred on by more agile individuals and organisations.

Let's hope it does not end up causing problems for the early Apple adopters who are enjoying a Windows free world.

Regrettably history suggests there could well be unintended consequences...so fingers crossed that Apple continues to improve our lives....! 

Problem is the PCs are much cheaper than Macs. Which matters in the real world. Linux is also non-PC and is cheaper still, but tends to hover about at the enterprise level rather than on staff machines.

The death of RIM may be a bit premature... after all they will come back again with a new offering, and iPhones are starting to look a bit dated by this point - especially with all the new Android devices and even Windows 8 ones around the corner.

Don't forget the Ipad especially for Sales Professionals -  The iPad helps to break down the old barriers – the physical space – of the buying dynamic, against the, "I have a Laptop and I only what to show you something that is all neat, tidy and fixed" to "Lets work together to fix a problem". I believe that the Ipad helps the sales team to enable better sharing of information and more effective consultative selling communication. For instance if you did a mind map, political map or shared a collaboration map where you indicate to a supporter of yours how your solutions addresses their key business requirements through understanding what their business pains are and you map it out and then pass it to your supporter to verify it. They feel like they take ownership of your solution if they said this pain is correct but this is pain is insignificant, add this.... I think that is where selling with an Ipad/Tablet could get interesting. - I have a blog on Finextra called - Do sales professionals need to be able to sell with an Ipad? where I get 6 responses to this question from end users - worth checking out.