iOS grows to 73% enterprise share in Q4 2014, Android drops to 25%, and Windows Phone stays flat

VentureBeat ^ | Thursday, February 26, 2015 | Emil Protalinski

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Apple still rules the mobile enterprise space and is extending its lead. iOS gained another 4 percentage points, growing to 73 percent of global device activations in Q4 2014. Android device activations, meanwhile, dropped the same amount to 25 percent of total activations last quarter.

The latest findings come from Good Technology‘s Mobility Index Report. Windows Phone activations remain consistent with the seven previous quarters: flat at 1 percent. Since BlackBerry devices use BlackBerry Enterprise Server for corporate email access, Good Technology does not have insight into BlackBerry handset activations.

In Q3 2014, Apple reversed its trend of declining quarterly enterprise share for device activations, thanks to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, a growth that continued in Q4. This makes sense, as Q4 is traditionally the company’s best iPhone quarter thanks to the holiday shopping season. While the iPhone 6 continued to be more popular than the iPhone 6 Plus, the breakdown slightly shifted towards the latter: In Q3, the breakdown was 85 percent for iPhone 6 and 15 percent for iPhone 6 Plus, while in Q4, it was 77 percent for iPhone 6 and 23 percent for iPhone 6 Plus.

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I am a big Apple user, but I'm with you -- a win for anything other than Windows, any move toward client-agnostic systems based on accepted standards, is a win for everything other than Windows.