Apple may be beating Samsung in the booming SME mobility market, according to a new report by Intermedia.
The provider of business cloud hosting services found that iPhones and iPads accounted for 68 percent of the 446,752 mobile devices that were newly activated on its network in 2014.
Android devices came in with a smaller, but significant, 26% of activations. Of these, Samsung increased its share of devices from 14.9 percent in 2013 to 16.7 percent. This market share seems to have been captured from other Android manufacturers rather than Apple; Motorola, in particular, saw its share of activations halve in the same period from 5.6 to 2.8 percent.
"While the conventional wisdom is that Android has greater market share, Apple has accounted for approximately two-thirds of all mobile devices activated by Intermedia’s users for four years running," said Michael Gold, president of Intermedia.
"Many Intermedia customers use their smartphones and tablets as their primary business tools. Intermedia hopes this insight into SMB user preferences will help IT decision makers as they plan for future user productivity and system scalability."
Apple is also beating Samsung in the smartphone apps processor (AP) market, although both lost out to Qualcomm. The findings came from research released today from Strategy Analytics.
Stuart Robinson, Executive Director of the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies (HCT) service, commented:
"Despite its huge scale and increased competition, Qualcomm continues to grow and its smartphone AP shipments registered an impressive 57 percent year-on-year growth in Q3 2014, by Strategy Analytics estimates. This can be attributed to Qualcomm’s global LTE smartphone momentum and strong traction in mid-range 3G smartphones."
