My daily Apple blog for Computerworld

• 10 years on, iPhone still needs to change the world June 29, 2017
  I doubt you’ll miss every tech reporter in the industry with their “ten years of iPhone” reports this morning, (I wrote my take earlier this week), but while there is no argument the product has changed some parts the world, Apple’s iPhone future still needs to change the rest of it.The long(er) game Things really […]
• Why Apple’s future’s up on ransomware June 28, 2017
  This week’s big security story is the so-called ‘Petya’ ransomware attack. It is not the first such attack, won’t be the last, and its success will prompt cybercriminals to attack again, and again, and again. In this new threat environment, there are zero excuses for any enterprise, public or private, to be running Windows XP, […]
• With Cisco, Apple weaves itself into enterprise infrastructure June 27, 2017
  Apple is on course to become the most secure platform provider in the modern enterprise, and Cisco is helping this happen.You heard that right “If your enterprise and company is using Cisco and Apple the combination should make the [cybersecurity] insurance cost significantly less for you than it would if you were using some other […]
• 11 ways Apple’s iPhone changed the enterprise June 26, 2017
  Ten years since Apple’s iPhone went on sale, here are 11 ways the device has profoundly transformed the enterprise.The BYOD moment The popularity of iPhone drove enterprise everywhere to permit employees to bring their own devices to work. Employees loved the power of the iPhone, and while competitors have sought to fill the same space, […]
• 8 reasons why you should strengthen your iOS passcode today June 23, 2017
  Every enterprise IT manager knows the ghastly truth: the biggest security weaknesses in any system are the humans using it. So, if you are one of the nearly one-in-ten iOS users (or even the one-in-three Android users) who don’t use a passcode, if you happen to be one of the many who use the same […]
• Dimension Data puts its muscle behind Apple in the enterprise June 22, 2017
  Yet another big cheese in enterprise IT has climbed aboard the Apple wagon, with Dimension Data joining IBM, Deloitte, Cisco, SAP, JAMF, and others in offering services to help big business pick Apple’s for their mobile enterprise.Enterprise ready "We understand our clients need a strategic approach to mobility – one that merges the world's best […]
• 12 ways you’ll use Apple’s ARKit in your enterprise June 21, 2017
  Enterprises pondering a push into augmented and virtual reality will need to embrace Apple’s ARKit, if only to access the hundreds of millions of already deployed devices capable of accessing these next-generation experiences. Of course, many see AR and VR as niche products only suitable for gaming, but these technologies have so much more potential. […]
• Apple is the top IT vendor, says Gartner June 20, 2017
  Get ready to abandon your preconceptions, Microsoft’s IT hegemony is broken. Gartner now claims Apple, Samsung, and Google have become the top three IT vendors by revenue.The laws of motion Sir Isaac Newton (star of the first ever Apple logo) in his Third Law of Motion said, “For every action, there is an equal and […]
• 6 months using Office and a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar June 19, 2017
  Apple introduced the first iteration of its MacBook Pro with Touch Bar a few months ago. Microsoft soon put Touch Bar support in Office for Mac apps. I’ve used both for several months and with a new Touch Bar Mac now available and Microsoft’s implementation clearly past beta, I thought it might be useful to […]
• Apple is 'pervasive in the enterprise,' says IBM June 16, 2017
  While there remain some industry observers that cling to rapidly diminishing arguments against such deployment, “Apple devices are already pervasive in the enterprise,” Mahmoud Naghshineh, General Manager, Offerings and Solutions, IBM, told me.The iOS enterprise is here Naghshineh spoke to me as IBM expands its MobileFirst iOS for the enterprise scheme. He echoes Mike Brinker, […]