Good Technology, which provides a number of services to help businesses manage their mobile communications, has published its device activation report for the first quarter of 2012.
The report looks at the smartphones and tablet devices activated amongst Good’s enterprise customers, including company-owned handsets and ‘bring your own device’ equipment supplied by individual users.
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Apple has announced financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2012 year.
Quarterly revenue was up to $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit was up 94% year-on-year to $11.6 billion.
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Figures from Gartner forecast that worldwide media tablet sales will total 118.9 million units this year, a 98% increase from last year’s end-user sales of 60 million units.
Apple iPad devices are expected to account for 61.4% of all tablet sales (73 million tablets) in 2012. Android follows with 31.9%; just under 38 million tablets.
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Mark Bridge writes:
It’s been a week of ups and downs for the mobile industry.
It started with good news as Apple – fresh from hitting 3 million new iPad sales – announced its plans to spend some of the $100 billion sitting in its decidedly non-mobile wallet. There’ll be a quarterly dividend and a share buy-back scheme.
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The ‘media tablet’ market has grown out of almost nothing during the past three years, with more than 220 tablets now on the market worldwide.
However, although the Apple iPad currently leads the market, a new report says its share will suffer because of new lower-cost tablets with smaller displays.
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