It's nice to finally have numbers to back up what I've suspecting for several years now.
iOS was usually given unsubstantiated claims that it was not suitable for business. Well, it's good to know that's a whole lot of balogna.
Good is a mobile device management platform, so I assume here that they are counting 'activations', as devices enrolled into their enterprise MDM solution.
Quoted from an IT technician, the reason why this is:
"As the person who has to support the users, its a hell of a lot easier for me to tell them where something is on their phone if everyone has the same OS and UI... not to mention that I don't have to worry about the device we choose to use not having OS updates or hotfix support six months down the road. Android phones have too short of a shelf life for enterprise situations.
Its not that Apple's the 'I.T' thing, its the only thing. Cell phones lock us in to 2 year contracts just like everyone else, so we need to make sure that we're getting something that will be supported for the full 2 years. So far, Apple's the only one that is doing that.
Apple's still releasing updates compatible with the 3G, 3GS and 4, can you say that for any of the android phones that came out in those years without having to root the phone? Android doesn't get the long term support it needs because the cell phone manufacturers still treat them like feature phones: Hype, release, Hype, drop and move on to the next one. An android phone's real lifespan is what maybe six months?
The G1 was a perfect example of support issues with android. It wasn't even 2 years before the newest version of Android couldn't even stored on the phone let alone installed.
The other thing to look at is the accessory market, can you find any accessories at Wal*Mart, Office Max, Staples, the Verizon Store, etc for an origina Droid?l Droid X? How about an Incredible? It'd be a miracle if you did. Yet you can still find plenty of cases, power chords etc for iPhone 4, iPhone 3gs and iPhone 3, many of them even still work with the original iPhone. On top of this, the thousands of business and productivity apps completely out-do anything ever seen on Android, and do it in a much more stable and fluid environment."
Businesses need to operate on longer term lifespans than the cell phone manufactures are willing to operate on. That's why Android isn't working for Enterprise."
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