Apple’s iOS operating system is so much more popular than Android among Good’s enterprise customers. In the second quarter the total sales of just the iPad have beaten all Android smartphones and tablets combined.
Despite Android’s strong overall growth, enterprises appear to continue to be in iOS
The above is the Quaterly iPad sales according to stats in June.
iOS offers a system that includes server software,phone software and a network operations center that allows phone and tablet users to securely access corporate data. It periodically releases reports about its customers’ use of mobile devices. The reports do not include information about BlackBerry phones, since Research In Motion secures those devices, or Windows Phone and webOS, which iOS does not yet support.
Overall, iPad and iPad 2 activations made up 27.2 percent of all new devices on this system during the quarter, compared to 24 percent for Android phones. Android tablets made up just 3.1 percent of overall tablet activations, a decline compared to the first quarter, According to the latest news. In addition, customers activated double the number of iPhones compared to Android smartphones. IPhones represented 66 percent of all smartphone activations while Android had 33 percent of all smartphone activations.
While Android includes Active Sync, so users can receive corporate e-mail on the phones, it does not allow for all of the security features that Active Sync enables. Many enterprises worry that the phones aren’t secure enough to be permitted to access corporate information.
Because sales of Android phones have surpassed iPhone sales in the overall market, the report indicates that enterprises are reluctant to allow employees to use Android phones.
Apple’s dominance of the enterprise market comes as a surprise to Good, which had previously predicted that Android smartphones would surpass iPhone activations this year.
Among financial services workers, about 47 percent of iPad activations in the quarter were accounted, which was more than double the percentage of activations in any other industry.