Jonathan sent this to the FileMaker user group, to be sure all of you had a
chance to salivate I wanted to send to this group as well, I email several
groups that’s why the header and closing reading as they do.
John
My Fellow Geeks
The weekend approaches, your cabin fever has brought about complete boredom…so
this should help revive your excitement….
I have written in the past about the Enterprise opportunity for Apple, well it
appears to be happening. You might also remember that when Home Depot was
hacked the company immediately switched management to iPhones, iPads along with
Mac computers…
It appears to be happening rather frequently.
So, curl up with a Starbucks, listen to the fire crackle and enjoy reading of
the adventures of Apple’s silent march…..
Have a great weekend, be safe.
Yes, Apple does own the mobile enterprise
And this is only part of Apple's story these days
Computerworld | Feb 26, 2015 7:39 AM PT
Saying that “Apple has an enterprise story” still feels kind of unfamiliar to
those who have endured years of pouty-faced critics slamming the company and
its products as “toys." But all the data says Apple is grabbing an ever larger
slice of one of the most important enterprise tech evolutions, the mobile
enterprise
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2857891/apple-and-ibm-the-new-enterprise-it.html>.
Apple everywhere
The latest Good Technology Mobility Index Report for Q4 2014
<https://media.good.com/documents/mobility-index-report-q4-2014.pdf>, published
today, provides ample proof the Apple now has a big enterprise story to tell.
Key facts for Apple-watchers include:
iOS continues to win share from Android. iOS increased from 69 percent to 73
percent of enterprise device activations in Q4.
Android took a remote second place; its share fell to 25 percent.
Apple’s iPhone 6 family accounted for 30 percent of all activations
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2874280/apple-will-soon-confirm-record-iphone-6-sales.html>
in Q4, with the Plus model accounting for 23 percent of these.
These figures are based on Good Technology data collected from 6,200
organizations worldwide, including 100% of Fortune 100 commercial banks,
aerospace and defense firms and more than half of the remaining Fortune 100
companies.
Microsoft v. Google
Microsoft’s decision to make its solutions available
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2880368/microsoft-will-be-a-leading-ios-android-developer.html>
for both Android and iOS may be the only survival stance it can adopt, the
report suggests: Windows Phone and Microsoft Surface held just 1 percent of the
marketshare in device activations.
It is interesting to note that the gap between Microsoft and Android device
deployments is much smaller than that between Android and iOS, which rather
suggests we may see Microsoft fight Android to seize share in the workplace.
Perhaps preparing for this, Google has reached a détente with BlackBerry, which
may help it combat Redmond but is unlikely to enable it to best Cupertino.
The late arrival of the so-called “Android for Work”
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2889176/google-pushes-android-devices-into-the-enterprise.html>
scheme is only really likely to achieve traction in the event Microsoft allows
it to dent its Office franchise.
Security, security, privacy
Security is becoming an increasingly big deal
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2871238/iphone-users-how-your-government-spies-on-you.html>.
A wave of high-profile cyberattacks alongside the revelation that governments,
corporations and presumably criminals are probably spying on all of us all of
the time (whether we want them to or not
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2868105/uk-pm-makes-apple-ceo-tim-cook-global-privacy-champ.html>)
has driven enterprise users to take steps.
“As enterprises are mobilizing content and apps, they are also fortifying their
cyber resiliency with accelerated activations of secure mobile apps, which grew
65 percent during the fourth quarter and 300 percent during the year,” Good
Technology observes.
There are also signs that CIOs from regulated enterprises don’t see Android as
a suitably robust platform:
“Device adoption varies significantly between industries,” said Good
Technology, “with iOS devices outpacing Android in regulated industries such as
legal (95 percent), public sector (82 percent) and financial services (81
percent). Android was more widely adopted in industries with fewer regulatory
compliance restrictions, such as high tech (45 percent), manufacturing (39
percent) and transportation (35 percent).”
There’s a move to adopt secure browsing technologies, activations of which
increased by 197 percent quarter-over-quarter and was up 10fold year-over-year.
Secure instant messaging activations also grew by 900 percent in 2014.
Apple and the enterprise is only part of it
This is all highly informative, but in combination with Apple’s alliance with
IBM
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2886982/with-ibm-apple-will-own-the-mobile-enterprise.html>
the trajectory here is pretty clear. Apple will be the platform of choice
among enterprise users, opening up new opportunities for developers as they
explore how to use these technologies to develop enterprise solutions users
both like and use.
In the other corner, Android is a desperate platform. Despite having a huge
market share, Android device makers are on a doomed race to the bottom, meaning
the platform captured a record low 11 percent global smartphone profit share
during Q4, claims Strategy Analytics
<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/strategy-analytics-android-captures-tiny-11-percent-share-of-global-smartphone-profit-in-q4-2014-300042022.html>.
In contrast, Apple iOS took a record-high 89 percent profit share. Who has the
sustainable business in this?
And as Apple prepares wearables
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2884391/we-already-know-the-future-of-the-apple-watch.html>
and its plans for car electronics
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2883762/apple-doesn-t-need-to-make-a-car-to-make-an-apple-car.html>
remain shrouded in mystery, it seems pretty clear the firm remains in pole
position for further expansion.
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/2887188/12-warning-signs-that-apple-is-expanding.html>
For Now My Fellow Travelers, I Am Out Of Here
Daddy Mac
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