The availability of the iPhone on Verizon and AT&T ’s deduction on the iPhone 3GS kept Android at bay laurel in the go-ahead , at least for client of Good Technology .
Good offer software program for secure and wield wandering phones and now tablets in the enterprise . On Friday , it released data it collected about its customers ’ speech sound and tablet activations during the first quarter . Good has “ thousands ” of corporate customers , including 40 of the Fortune 100 , so the study offers a snapshot of phone and pill preferences in the endeavour .
Toward the end of the fourth tail , Good saw Android start to bewitch up to iPhone in terminal figure of numbers of activating at upright client , say John Herrema , senior vice president of collective scheme for Good . But the iPhone let out the opening again in the first one-quarter , due to the handiness of the Verizon example and the push aside 3GS from AT&T , he say .
Android declined in the first quartern to just over 30 percentage of all net new activations , compared to 35 percent at the end of the quaternary quarter , Good said . However , it represented 38 per centum of all smartphone activating , omit pad of paper , Good found .
Devices running Io , including both iPad models and all iPhone model , were just under 70 percent of novel activation for safe customers , the company found . Among smartphones , 62 percentage of activations were iPhones .
Still , Good bear that once the welfare of the novel Verizon iPhone and thediscounted 3GS pricingwears off , Android will overtake iOS in terms of issue of new smartphone activations by its customers by the end of the year .
Good does not manage BlackBerry , Windows Phone 7 or WebOS gadget , so those phone do n’t seem in its report .
Good find that tablets persist in to be popular among its enterprise customers . pad of paper activation were around 20 percent of all activations , which include pad of paper and smartphones .
Android tablets are barely register on Good ’s report , although they show up for the first meter , with just over 1 percent of all activations in March . Almost all of those devices were the Motorola Xoom , which set up belatedly in the quarter .
Good is bump that pad are replacing laptops in some industry , like health care , but mostly they are being used as an additional gimmick , Herrema said .
When unspoiled first started liberate this kind of report last year , it found that some of its customers were still buying Windows Mobile and Symbian phones . “ Now what we ’re seeing is that they ’ve dropped out of this theme completely , ” he enjoin .
Microsoft has since released its new Windows Phone 7 operating system and Nokia , the primary developer of Symbian phones , announced sooner this year that it plans to start using Windows Phone 7 alternatively of Symbian .
