“Good technology on Thursday released a report comparing activations of Apple products to Android-based devices. Among its customers, Apple is still in the lead,” Jim Dalrymple reports for The Loop.
“The report, which focuses on the third quarter of 2011, counts thousands of enterprise and public sector companies. According to the data, Android did gain some ground in total activations, but Apple held onto its lead,” Dalrymple reports. “John Herrema, senior vice president of Corporate Strategy at Good Technology, blamed ‘consumers holding back purchases of new iPhones in anticipation of Apple’s latest release,’ for the dip in iOS activations in the quarter.”
“Backing up that theory, Good found a 25 percent daily increase in iPhone activations since the iPhone 4S was released,” Dalrymple reports. “If you look at the the iPad and iPad 2 specifically, Android isn’t even providing any competition for Apple. ‘To say iOS tablets (iPad and iPad 2) dominated adoption in the enterprise is to understate the case,’ wrote Good in its report. “While more and more devices running the tablet-tuned Honeycomb version of Google’s Android operating system have been released, Android tablet activations within Good’s customer base remain in the realm of a rounding error compared to what we’re seeing with iPad and iPad 2.”
Read more in the full article, with some nice charts, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]