Saturday, May 14, 2011

Apple iPhone continues smartphone of choice:


 A new survey c/out  in this week by Intermedia and found that of all the ActiveSync-based smartphones in the enterprise, the leader is Apple iPhone with 61% of the market. With 17% of the enterprise market, the Android OS is next followed by a conglomeration of Windows Phone 7, Symbian and webOS. All of those are lumped together into a category labels as "other" which controls 22% of the market.

Apple Active Market

 As recently as compare with last month, the Apple iPhone had 64% of new Active user's  activations while Android devices also picking up momentum and next to Apple ,with a 33% share.The tablet market is even more concentrated with the Apple iPad holding a 99.8% share of enterprise users among tablets with ActiveSync functionality. Intermedia said it has seen a huge jump in iPad usage for enterprise in March and April.




 Apple's mobile products continue to gain acceptance in the boardroom. During its last earnings call, the Cupertino based firm said that 88% of the Fortune 500 (that is 440 companies) are testing or using the iPhone while 75% are using the iPad. Apple COO Tim Cook has said that as more companies start making iOS devices available to its employees to use, they start buying Macs for the corporation.

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