“Google’s Android has managed to steal a few points of share in the enterprise sector, but is unlikely to maintain this once new iPhones and iPads ship and the Apple/IBM alliance truly kicks in,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld.
“Apple’s iOS has dropped 5 percentage points to achieve just 67% of total enterprise device activations in Q2 2014,” Evans writes. “Android device activations climbed five clicks to achieve 32% of total enterprise device activations in the quarter, even though Google’s OS is unsuitable for enterprise use. Windows remains toast, Windows Phone activations stayed flat at 1%.”
“The slight slowdown in iPad activations in the enterprise is easily explained by the need for a refresh in the product — and the future introduction of TouchID in iPads alongside the enterprise features within iOS 8 will inevitably get enterprise customers purchasing these devices in quantity,” Evans writes. “Within that context, I suggest the slight bounce in Android’s enterprise presence is of little significance, a statistical anomaly that doesn’t represent a trend — it’s a blip.”
Read more in the full article here.
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I’m certain that the Washington Post’s story on iOS being far more difficult to hack than Android won’t hurt Apple’s appeal to enterprise.
The number of sphincters in Redmond that are experiencing a high degree of pucker factor right about now must be truly astronomical.
Maybe it’s about time we started a Kickstarter campaign to supply those poor fools with an endless supply of Preparation H.
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Not so fast. Microsoft is not “losing” anything that it never had. Microsoft never had phones or tablets in the enterprise before, so not having it now does not hurt them. What would hurt Microsoft in the enterprise would be companies embracing Mac OS X (whether for laptops or servers). There is this hope that iOS devices will replace PCs (more accurately laptops) somehow but I do not see it happening.
@atlman
I don’t follow your logic. If I make cars and you make cars and I sell 67% of the market and you sell 1%, then you are surely loosing the (sales) race. Duh!
Microsoft’s been trying to get into the tablet space for well over a decade, has had a phone OS on the market years prior to the iPhone, even bought Nokia and are on their third iteration of their latest tablet fiasco.
Microsoft may not be in the mobile space but it’s not from lack of trying and wasting many billions of dollars to get where they’re not.
Microsoft desperately wants in, they just have themselves to blame for not being there: one phone platform, two tablet platforms and all mutually incompatible. (?!)
If Microsoft was land, Ballmer would have left it a superfund site, Washington’s second Hanford.
That Android sells into the corporate space at all is scary ridiculous.
Indeed. It’s in the same category as putting Windows into a car. What was that? Ford? Stupid.
Android does not sell in the corporate space. What little enterprise presence Android has is due to BYOD.
Beyond a little effort by Samsung (by creating Knox for security and coming out with an enterprise tablet – that was more geared towards competing with laptops than iPads by the way) Android companies have never made the enterprise a priority. Google just is not an enterprise-focused company in practically any of their offerings (even where they have it, like their cloud offerings they really do not much promote it) and the “other than Samsung” players are too small to focus on anything but the consumer market.
I can always sense a state of nervous tension by the speed at which fandroids come out of the woodwork to denounce articles like this one by Jonny Evans — their comments bespeak a single-minded preoccupation with market share, as if there were safety in numbers…Android is king alright, king of the mudflats and all the teeming little hopping, squirming things. Within the high castles, another scenario is unfolding.
What “fandroids” respond to is the endless baiting of Android by Apple fans. For instance, ComputerWorld also has an Android blogger who almost never mentions Apple. The same is true of all the Android sites: Apple is almost never mentioned. Meanwhile, all of the Apple blogs – including this one – dedicate as much as 1/3 of their content to ripping Android (and if not Android, then Microsoft or Blackberry).
Part of it is because they do not have to. Because there are so many companies making Android products – which inclues more than just phones, tablets and watches by the way – they have actual, you know, news to report and stuff to talk about, even if a good bit of it is dedicated to obscure companies making unusual products that few people will buy.
But even when that is excluded, the seething resentment that the Apple community has towards A) every other tech company that exists and B) every consumer that patronizes A) is unseemly.
Is there safety (or profit) in numbers? No, but there isn’t any with LACK of numbers either. Better to be Samsung, HTC, LG, Asus, Acer, Sony, Lenovo/Motorola, Huwaei or Xiaomi than Microsoft (in terms of their tablets and phones, not their OS or enterprise software), Blackberry, Symbian or Nokia right now, yes? The intense passionate hatred for Android at being #2 is illogical, and requires a lot more explaining and justification than merely choosing to defend not buying an Apple product in response (which is all the “fandroids” are guilty of by the way … for liking something else).
Valid points all, I do agree. Trolls and fanboys of any allegiance operate similarly. I spot them in clusters from time to time, like skirmishers on a battlefield, and sense an approaching clash of forces…feature wars, usually.
But vast numbers on one’s side can cloud one’s judgement. Market share champions have changed places in the past, and could again.
As for the “illogical” hatred for Android being #1, my theory is that Apple apologists took to heart Steve Jobs’s explosive rant about Android being a “stolen product”, and they carry on his legacy of victimisation. A milder view might have been to admit imitation as a form of flattery; but that’s a weak rallying cry to oppose Android’s accusations of “overpriced, underpowered, closed” fashion bling moved entirely through marketing hype.
” Android’s accusations of “overpriced, underpowered, closed” fashion bling moved entirely through marketing hype.”
Fair enough.
Regarding this issue:
iOS has made some gains in the workplace. that’s a given. It has done so while destroying some myths about mixed OS configurations in the workplace.
But I think the single season for its growth is simple. iOS is closed. It is unified. It is a PIA to hack.
Android faces the difficulty of multiple hardware vendors running multiple versions of the OS. By its nature, Android as of right now, is not ready for the enterprise.
“Android faces the difficulty of multiple hardware vendors running multiple versions of the OS.”
As if Windows machines don’t run XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1, and all from multiple vendors. Yet no one talks about “fragmentation” with WIndows. Fragmentation is just a myth peddled by the Apple partisans, especially since all the Android devices that would be actually used in the enterprise to begin with (meaning mid-range to premium devices, not the cheap throwaway stuff that is mostly bought as kids’ consumption devices or is sold in developing markets) are running Jellybean. It is hilarious. 25% of computers still run Windows XP, which came out in 2001. That is greater than the percentage of Android users on all the versions below Jellybean combined (2.2-4.04) and people talk about Android being fragmented. That is right, more than 75% of Android devices are running versions 4.1-4.4. A higher percentage of Android users are on KitKat than Windows users on Windows 8 AND Windows 8.1 combined, yet it is Android with the fragmentation problem! That shows you how Android does not get a fair shake from the tech media.
You know what else allegedly caused “fragmentation” problems with Android according to the biased tech writers? All the different screen sizes! Well now that Apple is coming out with their own phablets and is also going to have a diversity of form factors as a result also, that excuse is going to go away. I wonder what the next one will be.
Fragmentation isn’t as big a deal on desktop, because obviously apps are MADE to work with a zillion different screen sizes, because windows are resizable and scrollable.
(Though drivers for various hardware is one area of fragmentation.)
It was not just hardware drivers (though that WAS an issue, even after generic drivers and plug-and-play). Software often doesn’t run on all versions of Windows either, and companies usually only QA against and guarantee the 2 or 3 most recent Windows versions. They just label their product (hardware and software) with the versions of Windows that it actually does work with and move on.
Second: Apple screen sizes run from 3.5″ (early generation iPhone and iPod Touch) to 9.7″ with 4″ and 7.9″ in between. That never stopped iOS developers. Neither will adding the 4.7″ and 5.5″ iPhones. Neither will adding the rumored 12″ iPad for the enterprise (which Apple is strongly rumored to be planning to directly take on Windows laptops). So iOS developers support 4 screen sizes now, and will soon support as many as 7. The fragmentation excuse is hogwash, as is the false claim that Android users do not use the Internet, do not use apps, and that Android apps do not make money. The real reason: nearly all mobile developers personally prefer Apple and have a low opinion of Android, both the technology and its users.
But hey, big deal, that is their privilege: it is a free country after all. The problem is that the tech media reports the excuses of the mobile developers as facts without challenging them. Why? Because members of the tech media are just as biased towards Apple products as the mobile developers are. They think that Apple is the best too, so they are not going to challenge anyone who asserts fault with something else.
Which is why no one in the tech media is going to ask these developers “what happened to fragmentation?” when it comes to the Apple phablet. They also are not going to ask them if supporting multiple screen sizes on Apple is going to make them more willing to do so for Android also. The fragmentation issue will just disappear, the mobile developers will come up with other excuses for not developing for Android, and the tech media will refuse to challenge those also.
“Fragmentation is just a myth peddled by the Apple partisans,”
THAT, my friends, is what is called a “damn lie”. And he doesn’t know it. Head in the sand, doesn’t read developers comments much!