Mac sales reach record high as iPad slide continues

All Things Apple November 03, 2015 Mac sales reach record high as unrelenting iPad slide continues Apple said it sold a record number of Macs in the September quarter, dealing out 5.7 million machines to customers worldwide. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Apple Pay at 1 year: Growing, but slowly 2. INSIDER With Surface Book, Microsoft targets Apple -- and OEMs 3. Mac owners upgrade to OS X El Capitan at record rate 4. INSIDER iPad face-off: Microsoft Office vs. Apple iWork vs. Google Apps 5. Apple sales, profit surge on iPhone strength 6. Winner claimed in $1 million iOS 9 hacking contest 7. My Kafkaesque nightmare with the iPhone Upgrade Program 8. Outlook for iOS and Android gets a subtle redesign as Microsoft moves to unite email apps 9. Sharon Machlis: iPhone, Mac sales surge 10. Jonny Evans: 7 Apple TV flaws Apple should fix fast 11. Jonny Evans: Soon your Apple Watch will know more than you do 12. Jonny Evans: 10 things you probably didn't know about Apple's latest iMacs 13. Jonny Evans: 'Every Mac we buy is making and saving IBM money' - IBM White Paper: IBM The Case for Running Real-Time Transactional Analytics With analytics processing, some enterprises transfer their mainframe transactional data to other distributed server platforms for analysis. Read this Clabby Analytics report which concludes that it no longer makes sense to move data off of the mainframe for analytics processing on distributed servers. Learn More Apple Pay at 1 year: Growing, but slowly A year after its launch, Apple Pay has seen some significant growth in the U.S. But the mobile payment service has a ways to go to get to wide adoption. READ MORE INSIDER With Surface Book, Microsoft targets Apple -- and OEMs With the Surface Book launch, Microsoft may be eyeing Apple's share of the hardware market while seeking a way to keep Windows afloat in case its OEM partners give up on its flagship operating system. READ MORE Mac owners upgrade to OS X El Capitan at record rate Apple's OS X El Capitan got off to the fastest-ever one-month start for a Mac operating system. READ MORE INSIDER iPad face-off: Microsoft Office vs. Apple iWork vs. Google Apps iPad office apps, round 10: Microsoft Office and Apple iWork get big upgrades for the iPad's new multitasking capabilities. READ MORE Apple sales, profit surge on iPhone strength Apple logged another healthy rise in sales and profits for its most recent quarter on the strength of record iPhone sales and strong results for Macs. READ MORE Winner claimed in $1 million iOS 9 hacking contest A team of security researchers may have found a way to remotely penetrate the defenses of Apple's latest mobile OS, making them eligible for a $1 million reward. READ MORE White Paper: IBM Are You Ready for Mobile Capture? Read this white paper by Kevin Craine to discover how mobile capture can improve the effectiveness of your organization's processes. Discover the top 10 questions to ask before you make your investment in mobile capture. Learn More My Kafkaesque nightmare with the iPhone Upgrade Program Getting an iPhone through Apple's new subscription-based upgrade program is supposed to be easy. It doesn't always live up to that promise. READ MORE Outlook for iOS and Android gets a subtle redesign as Microsoft moves to unite email apps Outlook for iOS and Android is getting a visual refresh, as Microsoft celebrates having more than 30 million monthly active users running the app. READ MORE Sharon Machlis: iPhone, Mac sales surge You may have heard that it was a strong quarter for Apple device sales, especially iPhones and Macs. However, seasonality can sometimes mask longer-term trends, which is why I like to look at 4-quarter rolling averages. READ MORE Jonny Evans: 7 Apple TV flaws Apple should fix fast Here's a look at 7 Apple TV foibles Apple should fix fast. READ MORE Jonny Evans: Soon your Apple Watch will know more than you do Apple quietly launches an indoor positioning app for iOS. READ MORE Jonny Evans: 10 things you probably didn't know about Apple's latest iMacs From the display to the calibration, here are some of lesser known iMac facts. READ MORE Jonny Evans: 'Every Mac we buy is making and saving IBM money' - IBM In a large scale enterprise deployment, is the TCO of a Mac becoming lower than that of a PC? READ MORE White Paper: Neustar Inc 4 Security Recommendations on DDoS Protection Four key insights from the Competitive Landscape: DDoS Mitigation Solutions report to consider when you want to protect your company from attacks. Neustar found that many of the recommendations are currently found in SiteProtect DDoS protection services with future trends aligned to near term implementation. Learn More Peruse our library of free digital magazines! 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