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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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