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IDC Survey: U.S. Enterprise Mobility Decision Maker Survey: Corporate-Liable and Bring-Your-Own-Device Trends

Bryan Bassett — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey analyzes results from IDC's 2026 U.S. Enterprise Mobility Decision-Maker Survey to examine how enterprises are balancing corporate-liable (CL) and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) mobility strategies across their workforce. The study explores mobile device ownership models, deployment preferences, OS distribution, mobility management approaches, and the factors influencing device program selection in U.S. organizations.

This document also examines the business, operational, and security considerations driving CL and BYOD adoption, including cost management, employee support requirements, device lifecycle planning, and workforce mobility needs. The findings provide insight into how enterprises are evolving their mobile device programs, where future investment is likely to be concentrated, and what these trends mean for mobility technology suppliers seeking growth opportunities in an increasingly diverse device environment.

Market Analysis Perspective: Enterprise Mobility — Workspace and Deployment Strategies, 2026

Bryan Bassett — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the enterprise mobility: workspace and deployment strategies market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service providers.

"The worldwide enterprise mobile hardware market presents significant opportunities for both technology suppliers and IT buyers heading into 2027. While businesses ramp up deployments of on-device mobile AI solutions for enterprise workers, shifting spending priorities highlight a clear demand and expectation of measurable ROI in the wake of supply chain constraints, increasing prices, and extended hardware refresh cycles." — Bryan Bassett, research manager, Enterprise Mobility, IDC

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Is the Interest in a Foldable iPhone?

Ramon T. Llamas — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines consumer interest in a foldable iPhone across the United States and nine other markets, drawing on IDC's Worldwide Consumer Devices and Imaging Survey.

It looks at how willingness to buy or switch has shifted over four annual waves, how much of that interest depends on price, and how the answers differ between mature and emerging markets. Apple has just entered the foldable category, so this Spotlight examines where demand already exists, how firm it is, and what it is waiting for.

"A foldable iPhone has long been a unicorn of the worldwide smartphone market," points out Ramon T. Llamas, research director for IDC's Mobile Phones team. "Now that Apple has announced its iPhone Duo, we look at what the interest is across multiple markets around the world. Like other companies that have already introduced a foldable smartphone, the key for Apple is selling the experience, especially since price is high on consumers' minds."

EMEA Wholesale Radar, 1H26

Jan Hein Bakkers — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation analyzes recent news and events in the wholesale telecoms market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It identifies major trends and dynamics from these announcements and places them in the context of overall market development and outlook.

Apple's New Watch and AirPods: The Biggest Changes Are on the Inside

Ramon T. Llamas — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On September 12, Apple revealed its new Watch Series 12, Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5. Externally, none of the three devices looks different from the models they replace. Internally, Apple made its biggest investment yet in health sensing and a new Audio Intelligence feature set for Apple Watch, while AirPods 5 largely inherits acoustic hardware and software that debuted a generation earlier on AirPods Pro. These will keep Apple in good stead against the rising competition, serving as the go-to wearables for Apple enthusiasts.

Enterprise IT Highlights from Apple's September Launch Event: A Foldable iPhone and the Official Release of Apple's New Device Management Framework

Phil Hochmuth — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Apple, at its much-hyped September 9 event, unveiled its fall hardware lineup, led by the foldable iPhone Duo, as well as new iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods. The company also confirmed that iOS 27 will be available on Monday, September 14, 2026, for existing supported iPhones. While the iPhone Duo holds potential for many business use cases, new management frameworks underlying iOS 27 are what enterprise IT teams should be paying attention to, more than any single piece of hardware announced at the event. Significant changes are coming to how Apple devices are managed, secured, and governed, with repercussions across the entire corporate managed-device installed base — from the brand-new foldable to a three-year-old iPhone already in an employee's pocket (the moment IT allows the update through MDM/UEM).

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Enterprise Network Consulting and Integration Services, 2026

Leslie Rosenberg — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide enterprise network consulting and integration services (NCIS) market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service providers.

"The enterprise network will continue to rise in importance as high-speed, low-latency performance becomes a requirement for success in the agentic AI era. These demands, coupled with increased network complexity and skill scarcity, require that organizations leverage resources from their NCIS partners to accelerate successful network initiatives," said Leslie Rosenberg, research vice president, Network Life-Cycle and Infrastructure Services at IDC.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Smartphone, 2026

Francisco Jeronimo, Ramon T. Llamas, Nabila Popal — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the smartphone market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a tech leader perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service providers.

"2026 is a year of retrenchment for the worldwide smartphone market due to the memory crisis, yet beneath the surface are multiple key trends shaping the landscape for future years, including advances in AI by key players, shifts in customer tastes and preferences, and rising competition from emerging vendors. Companies throughout the ecosystem will benefit from the data in this report to compete today and thrive tomorrow." — Ramon T. Llamas, research director, Mobile Devices and AR/VR, IDC

Worldwide Wi-Fi-Enabled Products Forecast, 2026–2030

Phil Solis — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table deliverable includes yearly data from 2014 to 2030 for the worldwide Wi-Fi-enabled products market. This is a look at all the systems or end products that contain Wi-Fi integrated into an SoC, a Wi-Fi chip, or a Wi-Fi module.

The data includes pivot tables arranged in multiple ways (same pivot data) comprised of:

System/product categorization: 11 "level 1" market categorizations, over 50 "level 2" categorizations, over 85 "level 3" categorizations, about 150 "level 4" categorizations
Wi-Fi protocol segmentation: Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 8, "other" (WiGig, WAVE, HaLow)
IEEE protocol segmentation: 802.11n single band (Wi-Fi 4), 802.11n dual band (Wi-Fi 4), 802.11n/ac (Wi-Fi 5), 802.11n/ac/ad (Wi-Fi 5), 802.11ax without 6GHz (Wi-Fi 6), 802.11ax with 6GHz (Wi-Fi 6E), 802.11ax/ay (Wi-Fi 6), 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7), 802.11be/ay (Wi-Fi 7), 802.11bn (Wi-Fi 8) 802.11ad (WiGig), 802.11ay (WiGig), 802.11ah (HaLow), 802.11p (WAVE)
System landscape: Primary client, physical AI, IoT/endpoint, edge infrastructure (light), edge infrastructure (heavy), network infrastructure, storage mechanism

CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2026: AI Agent and OT Device Security Carry Consequences for Device Management Vendors and Buyers

Phil Hochmuth — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This year's news from CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026 skewed, predictably, toward security operations (SecOps) and agentic AI — but the endpoint's expanding definition and role have direct implications for unified endpoint management (UEM), patch management, and IT operations strategy.