The Loop is pointing to a report by Intermedia, a company who manages hosted Microsoft Exchange accounts, which finds that 61% of their customers activating a smartphone equipped with ActiveSync, are using an iPhone. Android-powered devices make up 17%, and Windows, Palm, and Symbian make up the remaining 22%.
For April alone, Android saw 33% activation, but iPhone still took 64%. Now, as for tablet devices, nearly all of them were iPads- 99.8% in fact. That remaining .2% consists of both Motorola Xoom, and Samsung Galaxy Tab activations. The company normally sees some 300 iPad activations a month, but in March is spiked to 900, and again in April to 1200 units.
In other words, Apple is eating into RIM’s previously-dominated “professional” market segment with the iPhone and iPad.
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