Strategy Analytics

Through the first three quarters of 2013, there was a steady rise in the corporate purchasing of smartphones, according to Strategy Analytics. This may suggest that enterprises are rethinking the extent by which their BYOD programs are allowed to grow.

In the third quarter of 2013, 73 million smartphone units were bought directly by business users or by companies for their business users. This represents an increase of 34 percent in excess of the total sales volume of business smartphones a year ago.

According to Boston-based Strategy Analytics, almost half of all Americans connected to the internet have used some form of cloud storage service, the majority of whom have utilized the services of content providers like Apple, Amazon and Google.

In the Strategy Analytics survey, Apple iCloud, Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive and Google Drive were at the lead of the consumer cloud storage market, particularly for storing music, but also for users' documents.