Apple's iOS nabbed 76% of small & medium business device activations in 2013, study says

Source: Intermedia

According to SMB email management company Intermedia, some 190,000 iPhones and iPads were activated on its network in the first ten months of 2013, grossly outpacing No. 2 Samsung's 29,000 activations.

In its annual "2013 Small + Medium Business Mobile Trends Report," hosted Microsoft Exchange provider Intermedia said Apple devices helped push SMBs further toward mobile with 190,000 device activations from January to October, a number representing 76 percent of total activations seen by the firm.

Intermedia claims to be the world's largest third-party provider of hosted Exchange, delivering integrated email, calendars, contacts and other business tools to nearly 700,000 business users. Findings were gathered anonymously from the company's ActiveSync activation program.

While Apple accounted for a huge portion of activations over the first ten months of the year, Samsung also grew with 29,000 device adds. Coming in third was Motorola with over 13,800 activations over the same period. Microsoft's Windows-powered smartphones and tablets saw activation increase of 93 percent, though their baseline marketshare was quite small.

Other interesting takeaways from the study include SMB's predilection for the iPhone 5s over the cheaper 5c. Since launching in October, the iPhone 5s rang up 6,906 activations, compared to the 1,521 for the 5c. Further, the iPhone 5, 4S and 4 all saw more activations than the newer low-cost model.

The firm postulates the lackluster iPhone 5c performance may be attributed to businesses being more motivated to buy a device based on functionality than by price.

Finally, the overall SMB mobile market is still expanding, with the total aggregate of device activations increasing from 88,680 in 2011, to 217,050 in 2012. Up to October, total activations for the 2013 calendar year stood at 249,872 devices.

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15 Comments

ochyming

said about 10 years ago

While Mr. Balmer was wondering - How Can I MaKe Money? What will happen if SamScum ( yeah!!! ) stops using the android kernel ( i doubt it )?

quadra 610

said about 10 years ago

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Originally Posted by Ochyming

While Mr. Balmer was wondering - How Can I MaKe Money?
What will happen if SamScum ( yeah!!! ) stops using the android kernel ( i doubt it )?

It's interesting that a lot of dullards and the perpetually ignorant accuse Apple of money-grubbing and profiteering, but all Ballmer can do for his big exit is try to boast about how much money he (allegedly) made the company.

You can tell when someone is overly concerned about their (negative) legacy when instead of talking about great product milestones (MS has barely had any for the past decade) they descend into bean-counting drivel. Ballmer has nothing to show for his tenure, apart from slowly but surely running the company into the ground re: all the areas that actually matter in consumer tech for the past decade.

Oh. But they DO have a money-losing, dodgy quality-control console you can play Halo on or some shit.

"Microsoft Research", yo. LMAO

secular investor

said about 10 years ago

This re[port is in line with an earlier Good Technology survey of 5.000 companies/organisations in 130 countries which found that[B][COLOR=blue][B] "Apple leads business adoption with 72% mobile devices, 90% of tablets, 95% of apps%u201D[/B][/COLOR][/B] They found: * Total mobile device activations are up nearly 60% year on year * iPads have a 90% share of tablets in enterprise/organisations. The Surface/Windows tablets have almost Zero share * 95% of all Apps activations for business are iOS * iPhones share of smartphones in enterprise/smartphones has increased from 69% to 72%, in just the last quarter. * 65% of respondent companies/organisations have BOYD policy and another 23% are in the midst of developing one media.www1.good.com/documents/Good-Q2-Q3-2013-Device-Activations.pdf

enzos

said about 10 years ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by Secular Investor

* iPhones share of smartphones in enterprise/smartphones has increased from 69% to 72%, in just the last quarter.

Wonder how much that is down to Touch ID? Seems to me it's a defining feature for a business-use phone.

constable odo

said about 10 years ago

I'd like to know why, if Apple is such a great company, with so much money and talent, how come the President of the United States HAS to use a smartphone made in Canada? BlackBerry is a company nearly out of the smartphone picture, yet it's the only smartphone that's secure enough for POTUS. Apple ought to be ashamed of itself for such blatant incompetence. To me that's like the U.S. Air Force having to use Russian MIGS for defense. So freaking stupid. I consider POTUS having to use a Canadian-built smartphone a national embarrassment. If Apple really wanted to prove itself, it would design an iPhone far more secure than a BlackBerry, take it to POTUS and tell him to use a smartphone designed in America instead of some Canadian crap. Of course, Tim Cook doesn't have the stones to do something like that and that's why Apple is so disrespected as a company by Wall Street and the rest of the tech industry. If the leader of the nation can't rely on an iPhone then Apple deserves all the dirt that's constantly heaped upon it.