iPhone is First Choice For Workplace Smartphones
Bring your own device (BYOD) trend surges with BlackBerry overtaken by Google's Android.
Android devices have replaced RIM's BlackBerry as the second most popular device for Bring Your Own Device to work (BYOD), while Apple's iPhone maintains its position as the first choice for workplace smartphones.
The latest quarterly Mobile Workforce report from mobile connectivity provider iPass shows a considerable drop in the number of smartphones given to employees for work. Instead, there has been a rise in the amount of employees bringing their own mobile devices to work.
The percentage of employers providing smartphones to staff members has declined from 58 to 33 percent, while BYOD has increased to 46 percent, a four percent increase from the 42 percent share it had last year.
"The idea of a universal computing device that supplants other devices has been on the radar for decades," said Evan Kaplan, chief executive officer at iPass. "What's interesting is that while the smartphone is ranked only behind the wallet and keys in importance, it's not displacing mobile workers' reliance on tablets or laptops. In fact, our data indicates that smartphone users also use more data on other devices, revealing an interesting phenomenon ― essentially, the more you use the more you use."
The iPhone has strengthened its dominance in the BYOD trend, with Apple's smartphone now accounting for more than half -- 53 percent -- of the handsets in the survey, an increase from its 45 percent share in 2011.
Android has taken second place with 34 percent of employees surveyed owning a device powered by Google's mobile platform. This is up from 21 percent in 2011. BlackBerry, meanwhile, isn't just proving to be a turn off for major organizations with 26 percent of workers now bring a BB device into the office. This is a decrease from 32 percent last year. Windows Phone remains in last place out of the major operating systems, with Microsoft's operating system for mobiles attributing to five percent of workers utilizing it.

Judging by your name, it wouldn't matter even if it was.
Judging by your name, it wouldn't matter even if it was.
And they will still have a thousand questions about them
With you on that bro.
Any "good" IT department that actually spends time analyzing iOS and Android would pick iOS. Like Halliburton, for example.
Yes, I know that nowadays most phones don't come with micro SD anymore, but still, all your settings are saved to your Google account. If you lose your phone or switch phones, all you have to do is enter in your Google information and most of everything comes back. iCloud is not the same. It's too limited on what you can back up.
Most of the sales guys here are old and need a bigger screen to see (sorry for stereotyping). The iPhone 5 screen is still too small and the keyboard sucks because they always fat finger when they text. But the company just made the switch to all iPhones because of a particular app (not gonna say, but it is available for Android, just not Android 4.0 and above). The reactions from the sales team has been mixed. Half of them don't use the iPhone and still use their own personal Android phones. The other half don't really care because it's a company provided phone.
So you're saying that any IT department that went with Android or any other OS aren't good because they choose differently from you?
Also this article has nothing to do what IT departments choosen but with BYOD.
Actually, we just hired 4 new people. They might have Iphones, not sure. If they do though, we'll convert 'em
As long as my employer never tries to replace my laptop with an iPad, Apple and I will get along just fine. Use the right tool for the right job...
However, they are a pain to manage on the IT side. Lot of "gotchas." Much of it to do with iTunes, which is the one thing I really despise.
People hate Apple because it's "cool" to and somehow being an Android user puts you on a higher plane of intelligence for some reason.