Apple Corporation

Apple Corporation has applied its creative design of hardware and the intuitive usability of its software core assets to new markets. The strategy has proven to be immensely successful in extending its business model beyond PCs with pioneering designs in markets that it has redefined or created: digital media players - iPod, smartphones - iPhone, and iPad tablet computers. It sells stylish devices and provides online software and marketplace for digital media and mobile app. The consensus is that Apple also will be building new cloud based business services for digital services and expand the services it offers through software and services.

Emerging Technologies

Data indicates that a significant transition is underway in which tablet devices like the Apple iPad outsell traditional personal computers. In 2010, the iPad’s first year on the market, PCs outsold tablets 20 to one. In 2011, PCs outsold tablets almost six to one footnote 2. Over the past two years, PC sales were flat and Apple iPad sales have been booming. The iPad brought in nearly 40 percent more revenue during the 2011 Christmas holiday than Apple’s Macintosh computer business. The iPad has been cannibalizing some computer sales. One category of PCs where that is especially true is netbooks; over the past few years the inexpensive notebook computers have been experiencing a steep decline in shipments. Over the last couple of years, Apple has made it a practice to refine the iPad and iPhone devices with better screens, enhanced processors, and more efficient network connections. The iPad has been taking growth away from the PC market that would have gone to a secondary or tertiary device.d this additional device.” Traditional PCs are not standing still. Desktop computers are a diminishing part of the PC business, while Apple’s MacBook Air and the ultrabook category of Windows laptops with Intel processors are superthin devices which provide functionality comparable to the tablets. Microsoft Windows 8 is scheduled for release later in 2012 and will enable laptops with keyboards that can be swiveled around or removed altogether, turning them into tablets. There is going to be a significant degree of form-factor innovation and there will be a blurring between a tablet device and traditional PC.

Tablet Computing Devices

Tablet computing devices are a work in progress and both the design and technology are still in their initial stage.  Tablets provide excellent portability and a first rate viewable experience for movies and displays from the Internet. Hand keying of tasks such as responding to e-mail, writing, and editing business documents and browsing the web is within acceptable standards.  However tablet devices do not provide the processing power required to for well acceptable multitasking in conjunction with spreadsheet data modeling or video editing.  The consensus among technologists is that the primary role of mobile computing devices is yet to be determined and will be directly related to the next round of improvements in the central processing unit, firmware, and tablet operating systems.  

Consumerization of Information Technology

In addition to its well established presence within specialized use in many lines of business and industries, there is a movement by employees at Fortune 1000 companies to support increased adoption of desktop and application virtualization and interest in BYOD: Bring Your Own Device programs.  There has been a slow increase in Apple Mac workstations and significant increase in the iOS operating system with iPhone and iPad devices. This is placing a demand on information technology departments to support a client management and security tools that can natively support non-Windows platforms.

Apple Operating Systems and Web Browser (Note Ecosystem)

Mobile Devices

The Apple iOS operating system is dependable, polished, and dependable. However, this is a closed ecosystem; only Apple approved applications can be used. With the popularity of the iPod, iPad and iPhone, the Apple's Safari web browser use has increased to nearly 9% market share. ¹Corporate information technology management has expressed concerns about Apple Safari security. A challenge will be to develop an integrated ecosystem for Mac computers, iPods, IPhones, and iPads.

Developers also expressed concern over the fragmentation of the app ecosystem on Android, saying they generally preferred a "unified, single-store experience like Apple's App store."   But for developers who wants their programs to make serious money, a nonunified app ecosystem may be less than desirable. Fully 74 percent of respondents said developing for Apple's iOS gave the best opportunities for paid-app revenues, and twice as many developers claimed their apps were more visible in Apple's app store than they were in the Android Market.

Mac OS X Computer Operating System

The Mac OS X is a line of partially proprietary graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple. It is pre-loaded on Macintosh computers. Mac OS X is the successor to the original Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984. Unlike its predecessor, Mac OS X is a UNIX operating system built on technology that had been developed at NeXT through the second half of the 1980s and up until Apple purchased the company in early 1997. The operating system was released in 1999 first as Mac OS X Server 1.0; followed in 2001 by the Mac OS X desktop version. The releases of Mac OS X are named after big cats; the current version of Mac OS X is "Lion". The server edition, Mac OS X Server, is architecturally identical to its desktop counterpart but typically runs on Apple's line of Macintosh server hardware. Mac OS X Server includes work group management and administration software tools that provide simplified access to key network services, including a mail transfer agent, a Samba server, an LDAP server, a domain name server, and others. In Mac OS X v10.7 Lion, all server aspects of Mac OS X Server have been integrated into the client version.

The major innovation for personal computers has been coming from the mobile phone. An assumption being test marked by Apple Corporation is that the individual who buys an iPad or iPhone might be inclined to buy a Mac computer if they interoperate and integrate well with one another and have features that work the same way on both both devices.

Mountain Lion, the next version of the Apple operation due out in the late second quarter 2012, will have several features that previously were mobile-only.Apple Mountain Lion will continue extending the featureset of the iPhone/iPad features to the Mac. The suite of Mac apps includes Reminders, Notes, Messages and Game Center. A free iCloud account synchronizes the applications on a user’s Apple computer, mobile devices, and gadgets.

Mac App Store - just a note.

Mobile Databases and FileMaker Pro

Programming in Objective C

FileMakerPro and FileMaker Go

Apple Web 2.0 Front End and RIA to Front End to Enterprise Computing

Middleware

IBM WebSphere MQ is the industry leading message queuing middleware platform. It is used in a SOA environment to route and transport messages among nodes and manage services in the enterprise. A message queuing infrastructure built upon and extended with WebSphere MQ is scalable and secure. In addition to IBM WebSphere MQ middleware and Rational Development platform there are commercial and open source Service Oriented Architectures that support web services and message-based technologies. The shaded grey cell indicates open source software.

Apple Mac and Apple Mobile Computing Training Services

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