iPad ¨C Device Activation Rules Market, Despite Competition
Source: Judy Standifer
Popularity Of Apple’s iPad
Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, said in a conference call for investors that Apple is getting the pull in the large companies due to iPad’s fame. He said that other tablets do not seem to be getting any power of attention at all. Good Technology, which supports enterprises of managed devices, published a report that ninety-five percent of activations of tablet came from iPad products.
iPad Activations In The Market
Good Technology in their recent report said that the activation for Android tablets has a slight decrease of 3.1%. Whereas iPad has activations that reached up to 95%. In the second quarter, iPad activations had surpassed the total number of activations for Android phone and tablets phone. According to Good Technology, iPhone has sixty percent activation whereas Android phones only has thirty-three per cent. Peter Oppenheimer, chief financial officer of Apple said that Fortune 500 uses eighty-six percent of iPads, it increased from the previous quarter, which is 75%. Tom Cook said that the adoption of iPads in the enterprise were simply incredible considering that they have only been shipping for fifteen months. The reason behind this is that their enterprise is conservative and needs longer time in evaluating products. iPad gained the highest activation rate on financial companies which accounts for 46%. Good Technology revealed that such rate is three times higher than the activation rate of other industries.
Other Popular Apple Products
In the second quarter, activation of iOS devices also gained higher percentage this time . Compared to the previous quarter which was 70%, this quarter alone it reached to 78.7% . The data provided by Good Technology information does not include other devices such as windows 7, webOs and RIM devices. However, they are planning to expand its support as it includes Windows 7 and webOS devices this coming fourth quarter.
Other Tablets And Android
In the second quarter, Motorola Xoom became the most popular tablet and part of the reason could be that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 was not shipped until June. Although Android might have a better future in the market once Android 3.2 is released in July. Good technology has customers from different enterprises such as Fortune 100, healthcare companies, technology companies, financial services companies, retailers and media.
In this article you have learned that iPad ruled the market in terms of device activation reported by Good Technology Company. Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, said that iPad has a powerful pull with the known companies. Compared to the rest of tablet competitors, iPad is more popular. Android would have to wait for the newest release of Android 3.2 in July to have a better standing in the competitive market.
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