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Apple to Sell $19 Billion in Enterprise Hardware in 2012 (AAPL)

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In its outlook for the next two years, technology research firm Forrester Research projects sales totalling $19 billion for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The research firm estimates that Apple will sell $10 billion worth of iPads and $9 billion in Macs to business customers in 2012. Sales could reach $28 billion total in 2013.

Forrester calls Apple “the biggest disruptive force in the computer equipment market.”

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Paul Ausick has been writing for a673b.bigscoots-temp.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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