17.12.2013 09:20 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

iPhone, iPad dwarf mobile rivals in small- and mid-sized firms

Apple has won the hearts and minds of small- and mid-sized businesses, which have overwhelmingly adopted Cupertino's mobile devices over rivals powered by Android or Windows, an Exchange hosting vendor said last week.According to Intermedia, 76% o the customer-activated mobile devices for the year through October ran iOS, Apple's mobile operating system. The majority of them were iPhones.Samsung and Motorola mobile devices -- both of those companies rely mostly on Android -- came in second and third with 12% ad less than 6%, espectively.Windows-powered smartphones and tablets accounted for just 1% o all activations in the 10-month period, about the same as the sinking BlackBerry.Intermedia measured mobile device preferences by tallying activations of ActiveSync, Microsoft's de facto industry-standard synchronization service that keeps email, calendars and contacts in step on smartphones and tablets. Mountain View, Calif.-based Intermedia claims to be the world's largest Exchange

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