Apple iPads are a bigger hit with business users

While Steve Jobs used to abhor IBM, Tim Cook’s Apple has taken a different approach and is seeing growth in terms of it. Apple’s partnerships with the likes of IBM, Cisco, and SAP have started to pay off for them. According to The Verge, the company gets almost half of its iPad sales from corporations and governments, which isn’t the story when the iPad first came out. But since they have partnered with the aforementioned companies as well as Microsoft, Apple has managed to make its iPads an attractive option for the enterprise market. If you remember, Apple recently released an ad showing off the computing capabilities of the iPad Pro. We’ve also recently wrote about how the iPad Pro works for the post-PC era.

3 Million iPads sold over the weekend, biggest weekend debut yet

Some pundits scoffed at the shorter than usual lines in front of the Apple Retail Stores claiming this as a sign that the demand for iPad mini was low. They forgot to  meintion that thte iPad mini sold out of preorders within days and even ran out of stock during the weekend in various stores in the US.

Apple today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad—double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March.

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