If you thought Android would be the choice of the pin-stripe business crowd, think again. Turns out the iPhone is the pick for the cubicle, as well as the art studio.
The Apple smartphone is used by 61 percent of enterprises surveyed by Intermedia, the world’s largest Microsoft Exchange host provider. By comparison, the survey of ActiveSync-based handsets found just 17 percent are Android.
Ah, but Android has just begun to grow, right? Not fast enough. Although Android’s share of the smartphones market grew 33 percent in April, the iPhone flew by, posting 64 percent growth. But what about tablets? Certainly, with RIM’s PlayBook and Motorola’s Xoom, Apple must feel the pressure? Hardly.
Intermedia found a whopping 99.68 of the tablets activated on its network were iPads. The remaining Samsung Galaxys, Motorola Xooms — even Hauwe’s entry — fought over the tiny .16 percent Apple left.
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Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
8 responses to “Businessmen Don’t Want Android, They Want An iPhone”
All I can think of when I see that picture is:
“ring-ring-ring-ring-ring …banana phone…”
Businessmen don’t care about anything except how to make/keep their money. Give them whatever product cheap enough and they’ll use it as long as it can cover the basic needs they’ll need it for their happy. It comes down to keeping the Benjamen’s in their pockets.
Actually, as a businessman, all I really care about is does it work.
I’ve tried android and its rather pitiful. Windows phone 7 was pretty close but it is sad that the company that makes MS Office can’t make a mobile version of office that doesn’t rip the documents to shreds when its opened and saved.
My iPhone 4 just works and allows me to focus on what really matters at work, making money.
There is also to say that iPhone is the smartphone
scene much longer than Android. Blackberry also was on
the scene since before the iPhone but has a mail management so stupid
and messed up (not just the mail) I’m not
surprised that he lost so much ground, let us remember that until the
beginning of last year the Blackberry was still the best selling
terminal in the Business segment.
I have done research for a paper for my business class and the Nokia Lumia is way better than the iPhone. The more research I do, the more I believe that I will never buy an iPhone.