Business users still prefer Apple

The company Good Technology has published a report on the situation in the smartphone and tablet market. Although the data and say that Google's Android is the most popular platform for smartphones among consumers, iOS from Apple is the default option for most business users.

In the first quarter of calendar 2013 to iOS accounted for nearly 75% of the total number of activations of devices among business users. The remaining 25% fell to share Android, whereas other platforms took less than 1%. iOS continues to dominate the industry, but Android in the last year standing at attention sizeable number of business customers. If compared to the same period of 2012, the share of iOS activations decreased by 5% this year, while Android, respectively, increased by 5%. According to Good Technology, these changes contributed to the sales of tablets, because there is Android has made great strides in recent months: the number of activations of Android-plates has increased by almost two times, a little weakened by the dominance of iPad Apple. In general, currently tablets are so popular among business users, they account for 27% of the total number of activations of devices in the workplace in the first quarter.

The popularity of tablets is growing, but still smart phones are all the rage. In this segment, according to the report, the number of activations of Android-smartphone was meager compared to the fourth quarter of 2012.

If we classify the results based on a comparison of devices, Apple becomes the clear winner, having in its arsenal five of the most popular models: iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPad fourth generation, iPad 2, as well as closing the top five leaders of the iPhone 3GS. The most popular device on Android is the Galaxy S3 from Samsung - he took sixth place in the ranking. By the way, just behind last year's flagship Samsung to be the first generation iPad, which settled down in seventh place.

Data collected Good Technology as a result of a survey of over 5,000 respondents who work in the financial and legal companies, healthcare, manufacturing, energy and utilities, as well as in government and in the industry of high technology.