Apple's hold on enterprise mobile space falls; Android jumps

It seems as if Apple’s hold on the enterprise mobility space is slipping. According to a latest report, businesses are increasingly using competing mobile devices such as Android and Windows Phone, alongside iOS.

The latest report could be a warning to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who while announcing a "landmark" mobility deal with IBM , stated that over 98 percent of the Fortune 500 and over 92 percent of the Global 500 are using iOS devices in their business.
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According to a latest report by Good Technology, Android device activations jumped significantly quarter over quarter in Q2, increasing five percentage points to 32 percent of total activations, while iOS activations decreased that same amount and recorded 67 percent of total activations.

Windows Phone activations remain consistent with the five previous quarters and made up one percent of total device activations.
iOS enterprise app activations do continue to have a stronghold with 88 percent of total app activations this quarter. However, this is a four percentage point drop from last quarter, with Android recording 12 percent of enterprise app activations.

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“Enterprise app activations shifted this quarter with Android apps claiming 12 percent of total activations, taking four percentage points of share from iOS,” the report added.

In Q2, the gap seen in previous quarters in the number of tablet app activations versus smartphone activations significantly closed, coming in at 58 percent and 42 percent respectively.

During the period, Android smartphone activations saw the largest increase of four percentage points quarter over quarter and came in at 30 percent of total device activations. iOS smartphone activations remained consistent quarter over quarter at 51 percent of total activations, while iOS tablet activations saw a slight decrease, coming in at 16 percent of total activations this quarter.

While still maintaining a stronghold overall, iOS tablet activations saw a slight decrease this quarter and came in at 90 percent of total activations. Android tablet activations recorded 10 percent of total activations.

This quarter, there was a bump in device activations in financial services, business and professional services and manufacturing, the report added.

Top apps

Document editing continues to maintain the top spot for most widely-used enterprise app,
but secure instant messaging (IM) edged out custom apps as the third most activated app category this quarter.

This quarter recorded significant growth in secure instant messaging apps, maintaining its lead as the top app for smartphones.

Custom app activations continued their streak of double digit growth quarter over quarter, recorded at 25 percent from Q1 to Q2.

After dropping last quarter, business intelligence regained its spot as the up and coming app, with over 200 percent growth in total activations quarter over quarter.

Customer relationship management (CRM) looks to be the next fast rising star, with the total activations of this app category increasing by a factor of seven quarter over quarter. Much of this growth can be attributed to the introduction of Good for Salesforce1 in late Q2.

Overall, enterprise application activations continued to see significant double digit growth, increasing 20 percent quarter over quarter.