Forrester: Nearly 50% of businesses now issuing Macs, 27% support the iPad
The myth that Macs aren’t welcome in the enterprise appears to be finally dying out, according to new research from Forrester. The company reports that almost 50 percent of businesses in North America and Western Europe now issue Mac computers.
While the focus of many “Apple in the enterprise” headlines focus on iPad business adoption, Mac computers are seeing surprisingly strong adoption numbers too.
Forrester’s new report, titled “Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise And Reshapes The … Continue Reading
Apple’s staggering Q1 earnings by the numbers
Apple investors jumped for joy at the company’s first quarter earnings report today, with results that beat high Wall Street expectations. The company earned a record net profit of $13.06 billion on revenue of $46.33 billion and sold a record 37 million iPhone units.
Apple notably missed Wall Street’s expectations for the first time in a long time during its last earnings report. But the company changed the release of its iPhone launch schedule by … Continue Reading
Review: A Minecraft review isn’t really possible, but we’ll try anyway
How the hell do you write a review for a game that’s been out since 2009? A game that you’ve played across many changes, with additions and subtractions, a game without a box, a user manual, or, really, any sort of guiding pedagogy. I’ve personally spent at least 100 hours, probably more, playing this procedurally generated oddity of a video game across the beta and official versions, on servers, my own server, and in single … Continue Reading
The icon designer who helped make the Macintosh so darn cute
When it appeared in 1984, the Macintosh blew people away with its graphical interface, its mouse, and its unusual industrial design.
It also charmed customers with its cute, approachable icons, from the smiling Mac that appeared while it was booting to the bomb that popped up when something went terribly wrong. The Mac’s many icons were the work of Susan Kare, a painter who landed at Apple at just the right time and came to … Continue Reading
Report: Macs now have 5% of global market share
Apple’s Mac computers have hit the 5 percent mark in worldwide market share for the first time in 15 years, according to an All Things D report.
The Windows OS has been the most pervasive and popular operating system around the world for two decades, but because Apple is sole manufacturer of Macs and every non-Apple computer manufacturer makes PCs, Macs have seemingly always been slim in complete market share. What’s interesting now is that … Continue Reading
Despite iPhone sales, Apple surprisingly misses Wall Street expectations
Apple was probably cheering this weekend with a record-breaking number of iPhone 4S units sold, but we’re certain the company isn’t happy today with fourth quarter earnings that didn’t meet Wall Street’s hefty expectations. Apple hasn’t missed Street targets in a very long while.
Apple’s long-term viability was questioned when long-time CEO and tech visionary Steve Jobs passed away a few weeks ago. But Jobs left a strong team in place led by new CEO … Continue Reading
That’s so Steve! Our favorite Steve Jobs moments
Steve Jobs shifted the technology landscape countless times as Apple’s CEO. Now that he’s retired from that role, we’ll also miss the many great moments that his singular personality has brought us.
What follows is a collection of our favorite Jobs moments, which may or may not have to do with technology, but offer a glimpse of insight into one of our greatest modern minds.
Steve says Microsoft has no taste
Jobs made it clear … Continue Reading
Apple launches $999 iMac for education
Apple on Monday released details on its new low-end iMac computer, which targets educators.
The $999 desktop will only be available in bulk purchasing from Apple from its Higher Educational online store, so average consumers are out of luck.
The machine features the basic elements of an iMac but will keep the specs dialed down for more affordable pricing. The education iMac sports a 21.5-inch display, a last-generation 3.1 GHz dual-core Intel Core i3 processor, … Continue Reading
Top 10 reasons to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion
Apple’s new OS X Lion operating system launches today to much fanfare six weeks after it was announced.
Chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer let slip that the new OS was on the way during yesterday’s Q3 earnings call, and Apple fans are pumped.
Apple announced OS X Lion back in early June at WWDC. The OS adds more than 250 new features at the surprisingly low price point of $29.
The 4GB Lion upgrade can … Continue Reading
Apple iCloud manager departs for healthcare service
Time to queue up “Get Off My Cloud” by the Rolling Stones. Apple iCloud senior manager John Herbold has departed Apple to join online healthcare service HealthTeacher as vice president of product.
“I’ve been fortunate enough to define, ship and market a variety of products for one of the world’s most admired product companies,” Herbold wrote on LinkedIn. “That opportunity was a great privilege. Now I get to take that experience and apply it to … Continue Reading
Who needs an Xbox 360? Apple tempts students with $100 app store credit
Apple today released details of its 2011 back to school promotion, which offers eligible buyers a $100 app store credit with the purchase of a Mac computer from Apple’s education store.
In years past, Apple offered an iPod as the promotional item of value, which is less practical for educational purposes than the plethora of iOS and OS X applications available for purchase with the $100 credit.
Apple probably chose the $100 credit because it … Continue Reading
Evernote reaches more than 10M users
Multi-platform note-taking program Evernote on Monday announced it had reached more than 10 million registered users.
The 10 million mark is a significant bump from the company’s reported 6 million users in January. It also reported that more than 400,000 of its customers pay $5 a month for a premium plan that enables bigger uploads and better collaborative tools.
“Ten million users seemed like an inconceivable number when we were getting ready to launch the … Continue Reading
Apple signs Universal to iCloud service, will charge $25 a year
Just before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts Monday, the company has leaped a large hurdle by reaching an agreement with Universal Music Group over its iCloud music service, according to CNET.
iCloud will reportedly let users listen to music from their iTunes libraries from a Web browser or Internet-connected Apple device. Universal was the last of the big four music labels — along with Warner, EMI, and Sony — that Apple needed to convince … Continue Reading
Is Mac's heyday as security king now over?
The commonly held, and perhaps misguided, idea that Apple’s Mac computers are impervious to viruses, malware, and spamware has been brought into question this week with reports that Apple is engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with malware programmers, according to ZDNet.
On Tuesday, Apple released a patch to stop the dreaded MacDefender malware, which looks an awful lot like an Apple program but installs harmful software instead. Only hours after the patch, the makers … Continue Reading
By the numbers: Apple's staggering results
Apple released its most staggering quarterly results in history today, with all parts of the business showing dramatic growth. Here’s a look at some of the most impressive numbers just released by the company on its fiscal second quarter earnings call.
Revenue:$24.67 billion, up 82 percent from a year ago.
Net income: $5.99 billion, up 95 percent from a year ago.
Mac sales: 3.76 million units, up 28 percent from a year ago.
iPhone sales: … Continue Reading
Apple earnings beat estimates, but iPad disappoints
Apple just released its earnings report for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011, and it topped analyst estimates once again.
However, it did fall short in one area: iPad sales. Analysts had predicted that the company would sell between 6 and 6.5 million iPads, and instead Apple reported sales of 4.69 million. This confirms earlier reports of disappointing sales, which were based on the filings in Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung. It’s hard to offer … Continue Reading
Forrester yawns at Amazon Cloud Player
The first critics were quick to arrive after Amazon launched the Cloud Player music service last night. Forrester’s analyst Mark Mulligan wrote on his blog that music locker services like Amazon’s “are not an innovation in the music product” and they “will not save music industry”.
Cloud Player allows users to upload their music and play it on a PC, Mac or any Android device. The music playback is not restricted to a single computer. … Continue Reading
Apple debuts Developer Preview of Mac OS X Lion via App Store
Following recent rumors, Apple has officially announced a developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, the latest version of its operating system. Developers part of the Mac Developer Program can obtain the preview today through its App Store on the Mac.
The release includes a set of highly anticipated features such as Mission Control, a centralized dashboard to overview all of your activity, and Launchpad, an easy way to store and launch applications, in addition … Continue Reading
FaceTime for Mac hits the App Store for $0.99
Along with the launch of new MacBook Pro laptops, Apple is also bringing its video chat application FaceTime for Mac computers today, with a price tag of $0.99 in the Mac App Store.
The Mac app has been available as a public beta since October, which is quite some time to wait for the official release, considering that FaceTime was originally announced in June for the iPhone 4 and was one of the device’s most … Continue Reading
By the numbers: Apple's fourth quarter results
Apple delivered a stellar fourth quarter by bringing in almost $27 billion in revenue during the holiday season — another record for the iPhone and Mac manufacturer.
But the numbers really do speak for themselves. Here are some highlights from the company’s announcement today of its fourth quarter performance ending in December:
$26.74 billion in revenue, up 71 percent from $15.6 billion in the same quarter a year ago
$6 billion income, up 78 percent
