A new study contains more evidence the iPhone is taking hold at work, even displacing the stolid business-centric BlackBerry as the smartphone of choice. Of enterprise workers carrying a smartphone, 45 percent said the handset is an iPhone versus 32 percent for the BlackBerry.
According to the Mobile Workforce Report (pdf) from researcher iPass, the percent of enterprise employees packing iPhones rose from 31.1 percent in 2010, while BlackBerry users in the workforce fell from 35 percent. The decline in BlackBerry users was largely due to the RIM device not being able to keep up with the growth of smartphones in the workplace, the report explained.
That slowdown was evident in answers to what smartphone business employees intend to buy in 2012. While 18 percent of enterprise workers plan to get an iPhone, just 2.3 percent said they would buy a BlackBerry.
Android in the enterprise came in a close third, just behind the BlackBerry, registering 21 percent of the business market, overtaking Symbian and doubling its market share from 2010. More than 11 percent of enterprise workers said they plan to buy an Android smartphone next year, with 3.6 percent picking a Windows Phone.
The iPass survey questioned 2,300 workers around the globe.
This is probably a dumb question, but have you traded in your work BlackBerry for an iPhone yet? Let us know in the comments.
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.
13 responses to “iPhones Have Now Beaten BlackBerry In Business”
FIRST! ITs a friggin’ Wrap….. ‘All the Kings horses and all the King’s men could not put Humpty Dumpty back together again’.
Except of course their 2011 numbers add up to 113.5%
my best friend’s mother makes $73 an hour on the Laptop. She has been fired for 5 months but last month her check was $8294 just working on the computer for a few hours. Read about it and get started following “Online income solutions” on this web site http://xub.me/gf
as well as 2010 numbers add up to 106.3% … thanks Mr. Ed Sutherland with the fake market numbers
Traded in 2 weeks ago – downsides include lack of led notification for emails and poor customization on alerts (would like phone to ring at one level for calls and beeps/tones for sms/email, etc to be at a quieter level) – anyone know if that’s possible?
Not so long ago one of the IT folks dropped by my
office and asked about my 1,200 dollar Cisco phone. I looked at my desk and
realized I placed the phone in a drawer over 6 months ago and basically forgot
about it. I have only one communications devise and that is a iPhone. I have my
Cisco iPhone application active at all times including Skype for my family,
VIBER for my friends located in Latin America and a assortment of SMS apps
especially the new LYNC SMS application we are evaluating. When I first
transitioned I found the iPhone to be somewhat uncomfortable on long calls and
the speakerphone was subject to issues with background noise. I then purchased
a iFusion docking station in order to have a normal handset and quality
speakerphone. This is the point I laid to rest my Cisco phone and never looked
back. My iPhone docked in my iFusion has everything I need and more. Nothing
beats this combination including the fact I’m keeping the radiation away from
the brain. Nothing on the market comes close to iPhone and if you have a Cisco
try the mobile application for its much better than the real phone.
In 2009 I traded my company Blackberry for a company issued iPhone 3G. Got the 4 last summer, have never looked back. My whole company is iOS now. So is my home (Apple TV, iPod touch, iPads). We never owned a Mac and now we are totally an Apple house.