Apple announced its quarterly earnings this week, announcing iPad sales to enterprise customers have more than tripled, twice as many iPads as Macs have been sold in the education sector, and acknowledged that future iPhone speculation has hurt sales of its current models.
News and Insights
- TabTimes - Apple says iPad sales to Fortune 500 enterprise customers more than triple
- USA Today - Apple earnings sag in latest quarter on talk of new iPhone 5
- CIO - Lessons from a one of the largest iPad enterprise adopters in the world
- TNW – Apple and Microsoft are teaming up to bid against Google, others for Kodak’s patent portfolio
- TabTimes – Apple has bought fingerprint security firm Authentec for $355 million
- InformationWeek – All about Google Now, Android Jelly Bean’s search integration tool that learns about its user
- Wired - Why Apple’s Mountain Lion just became the ultimate cord-cutting OS
- New York Times – Microsoft admits OEM risk in tablet plans
- TabTimes – A breakdown of productivity increases with mobile enterprise application
- The Verge - Google Handwrite lets you write out searches on a phone or tablet
- LuxuryDaily - What luxury automakers like Maserati, Porsche, and Lexus are doing with mobile
- ReadWriteWeb - How Microsoft plans to use the business market to end Apple’s tablet dominance
- Forrester - How to implement a mobile product and service road map
- Dewith – Designing for Android mobile devices
- USA Today – Nordstrom and JCPenney to replace cash registers with mobile checkouts
- Reuters – Amazon to introduce more tablets in different sizes, including a 10-inch size, say reports
- Smashing Magazine - The Elements Of The Mobile User Experience
Research
- Apple Insider – In the education sector, Apple sold more than twice as many iPads as Macs this fiscal quarter
- Strategy Analytics - Global tablet shipments grew 67% this quarter to hit 25 million, with the iPad leading the way
- Gartner - Mobile phones to account for 10% or $222 billion of the total consumer tech market in 2012
- Strategy Analytics - Samsung shipped nearly twice the number of smartphones as Apple during the second quarter
- ReadWriteWeb – [Infographic] Mobile Content: Usage and Expectations
- Spectrem Group – Apple is the top smartphone and tablet brand among the wealthy
- IDC - 68% of developers are “interested in Windows 8 and find Metro compelling”
- Juniper Research – The global market for mobile payments, with the help of NFC, will exceed $180 billion by 2017
- Visa - Visa: Mobile payments will hit mainstream in 2 to 3 years
- Google – [Infographic] How are doctors using digital tools to make decisions?
