Apple's iOS mobile platform dominates
the enterprise segment with about 64
percent share worldwide in 2014,
followed by Android with 27 percent and
Windows at 9 percent, a report by
virtualisation solutions firm Citrix said
Wednesday.
"iOS remains the dominant mobile
platform in the enterprise at 64 percent
worldwide, Android is gaining popularity
in Asia, and Windows is more than twice
as popular in EMEA (16 percent) as it is
in North America (7 percent)," Citrix
mobile analytics report for the first half
of 2015 said.
iOS has 67 percent share in the
Americas, 57 percent in Europe, the
Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and 67
percent in Asia Pacific (APAC) in 2014,
the report said.
It added Android is growing in APAC
region, rising from 19 percent in 2013 to
33 percent in 2014, possibly due to the
large presence of Samsung in the region.
Device diversity is greatest in EMEA,
where Windows phones have the greates
presence of 16 percent, it said.
The report said as device management
becomes a more critical function,
enterprises are seeking less obtrusive
ways to maintain security while ensuring
an acceptable experience for employees,
such as a shift from all-or-nothing
device-level policies to more granular
app-level policies.
"The line between personal and business
mobility continues to blur as people
routinely use the same smartphones and
tablets across every part of their lives. It'
no longer possible to maintain artificial
boundaries of personal and business
mobility," Citrix Vice President of Mobility
Solutions and Alliances Chris Fleck said.
The report also said mobile users that
own an iPhone 6 Plus ( Review | Pictures )
generate the most data volume of all
iPhone-owning subscribers. iPhone 6
Plus owners use twice as much data as
iPhone 6 (Review | Pictures ) and about
10 times as much data of iPhone 3GS .
The report said that the difference is
attributable to more video viewing on th
larger screen.
"Clearly the phablet-sized iPhone 6 Plus
shows data usage patterns more akin to
tablet usage. For mobile operators, this
increase provides an opportunity to shift
subscriber Wi-Fi usage towards mobile
networks," the report said.
The report is an analysis of anonymousl
sourced information encompassing both
mobile subscriber and business mobility
data drawn from a global cross-section
of Citrix customers.
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