One deployment after another, Apple continues to exploit the huge opportunity it has been given as enterprises consider the cost consequences of upgrading legacy equipment to Windows 11.

It seems clear the forced need to upgrade Windows is motivating many business users to move to the Mac instead. This trend has been ongoing for some time, but seems to have become even more apparent in recent months — Apple’s most recent quarterly financial call confirmed double-digit growth in Mac sales during Q3 ’25.

Mac sales to new users climbs

While Apple doesn’t break out much detail in terms of unit sales, the results did show that Mac sales generated $1 billion more in the quarter than the same period a year ago. This follows nine strong months of Mac sales, with revenue increasing 15% year-over-year, including what the company called “strong” performance in emerging markets. 

“We set a June quarter record for upgraders on Mac, and we saw great performance in emerging markets with strong double-digit growth on revenue as well as strong double-digit growth on both upgraders and customers new to Mac,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Much of this performance was driven by the popularity of the M4 MacBook Air, but the growth was everywhere. Apple CFO Kevan Parekh confirmed Macs sales increases in every region, including double-digit growth in Europe, Greater China, and the rest of Asia-Pacific. 

Signs are that Windows users are switching

Is Apple taking market share from Windows? 

If this were the case, you would expect to hear that the company is attracting a lot of new users to the platform, and you would also expect the number of users to increase. This seems to be precisely what is happening, with Parekh claiming: “The Mac installed base reached an all-time high.” He also claimed a June quarter record for upgraders. 

The big question, of course, is whether all of these Windows switchers making the hop to the Mac platform are happy with the experience. While you can look to social media to find critics of almost anything, customer satisfaction data tends to be more reliable. What’s interesting here is that despite this mass influx of new users, Mac satisfaction levels remain supreme. “In the US, customer satisfaction was recently measured at 97%,” Parekh said.

That’s a comment that speaks volumes as it means not only that more people than ever are moving to Mac, but that they are also happy to have done so. In the context of accelerating Mac adoption, it can only be a matter of time until even more people take the leap. Microsoft, in contrast, lags Apple when it comes to customer satisfaction with scores in various categories in the mid-80s. 

That’s not terrible, of course, but it does represent a big chunk of that company’s existing Windows user base who might be willing to try life on the Apple side. 

Also, in the enterprise

Apple’s financial results also offer a glimpse into its activities in the enterprise markets. During its Q3 call, company execs told us Apple had the best June quarter ever for Mac in the enterprise. “Organizations are continuing to invest in Apple products to drive employee innovation and productivity,” said Parekh, sharing that PayPal and Roche are deploying more Macs for their workforce.

One thing leads to another and as those deployments increase, Apple is seeing its other products come into play. That’s why Siam Commercial Bank, one of the largest Thai banks, has deployed thousands of iPads across corporate branches to enhance the quality and efficiency of their banking operations.

The switch isn’t confined to the US. Cook told us that the MacBook Air was the top selling laptop model in all of China, while the Mac Mini became the top-selling desktop. 

One more thing? 

Quite a lot of the more advanced components used across all Apple’s products are made in the US, including millions of chips and the glass used in iPhone and FaceID, Cook told analysts during the call.

He also noted the importance of AI to Apple’s future and suggested the company would be very open to acquiring companies that can help it “accelerate a roadmap.”

To flesh out the meaning of those three words, think about the extent to which the company’s 2008 acquisition of PA Semi accelerated Apple’s roadmap to Apple Silicon, which sits at the heart of the huge Mac resurgence today; or how the company’s billion-dollar investment in Beats has helped it build out a Services segment that seems to have become a $100 billion business today.

Hold those two purchases in mind and consider which company or companies Apple could acquire today that would contribute similarly profound change (or “roadmap acceleration“) to its future? Because that’s where Apple is looking… 

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Google is adding more features to its NotebookLM software — the targeted workspace where users can gather information on specific subjects, understand it, and use generative AI (genAI) to analyze reference documents, brainstorm ideas and generate summaries.

Users can load complex reference documents into Google’s NotebookLM and now generate AI video summaries from documents. Before, users could only create audio or text summaries. The new feature is targeted at those who prefer viewing slideshows or video snippets.

“You can think of these as a visual alternative to Audio Overviews: the AI host creates new visuals to help illustrate points while also pulling in images, diagrams, quotes and numbers from your documents,” Google said in a blog post detailing the new feature.

The initial video summaries will yield narrated slides and only in the English language. Google said it plans to continue adding new forms of video generation beyond slideshows.

NotebookLM, which Google introduced in 2023, also has a new user interface designed to make it easier to generate multiple types of summaries from reference files. Previously, only one summary was allowed.

Google isn’t the only company working to beef up its notebook platform. Microsoft last month added Copilot Notebooks to OneNote, the company’s popular note-taking tool. With Copilot Notebooks, users can “gather content easily, understand complex topics with context, and create smarter content based on the context of your notebook,” Microsoft said in a blog post at the time.

The Copilot Notebook feature is available to users with Copilot licenses.

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In what will later be seen as a highly significant move to unlock Apple’s ambitions in digital health, the Trump Administration has created a voluntary industry network of companies to make health data more interoperable.

What this should mean is that data from different health providers will be more easily assimilated within any single trusted app or service. The idea is that you’ll be able to take your chosen app (such as Apple’s Health) and find data, test results, and other information collected by different US health providers.

The problem that exists is that much of this data is held in proprietary systems, so it’s not easily shared across app and services.

The digital disruption of health

“We have the tools and information available now to empower patients to improve their outcomes and their healthcare experience,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said in a statement. “For too long, patients in this country have been burdened with a healthcare system that has not kept pace with the disruptive innovations that have transformed nearly every other sector of our economy. With the commitments made by these entrepreneurial companies today, we stand ready for a paradigm shift in the US healthcare system for the benefit of patients and providers.” 

The intention is to make all this data more interoperable, which should also make it more actionable, as well as more available to patients and caregivers. The initiative sees Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Anthropic, and OpenAI promising to work with health systems and the administration to bring all the fragmented data together.

The barrier toward better interoperability seems to have been the need to keep that data secure; with this agreement government and tech firms now hope to improve data sharing and expand the kinds of apps patients can use.

A Bloomberg report particularly cites apps designed to help people manage obesity and diabetes with help from artificial intelligence, both of which could easily be on the Apple health services radar.

What are the benefits?

The devil’s in the detail with all partners, including 60 companies and 11 health systems, committing to deliver results (though no specifically agreed upon outcome) by Q1 2026.

That’s all good. But the need to maintain privacy with health data remains a big sticking point, particularly as rogue nations such as the UK push for backdoors into data encryption, while competition regulators become increasingly insistent that system services — presumably including health services — should have access to platform-specific features to drive their own apps and services. 

In both cases, these missions look like large vehicles advancing at pace down a one-way country track toward an also speeding car of privacy. In the end, we may see the right to personal privacy being shunted off the track by the demands of corporate enterprise, which is concerning to me.

There are benefits in that the introduction of better interoperability will make it far more possible to create next-generation systems and services within the digital health sector. Caregivers will have improved access to information about patients and their condition, while self-care will be improved with the introduction of AI-driven personal health coaches that apply cutting-edge health science to actual biometric and health condition data.

Undiscovered chances

These systems should eventually become very capable of optimizing management of existing health conditions while also accurately warning of, and mitigating against, hitherto undiagnosed conditions. 

You can also widen the benefits out; assuming privacy is protected, it should become possible for health authorities to access fast and immediate real-world data on a local/regional basis as key health statistics are shared with them.

This may be of particular use if we experience another pandemic, as information of this kind should help authorities focus healthcare resources more effectively to prevent disease spread. While that won’t actually solve the worldwide funding crisis in public health, it might enable those resources that do exist to be used more effectively.

Calling Project Mulberry

Returning to Apple, CEO Tim Cook has been evangelizing Apple’s mission in digital health for a very long time and Apple has itself gone some way toward opening up digital health systems within its own Health app. News that this initiative has become a government/industry partnership should be welcome in Cupertino, as it could unlock opportunities in health the company might now intend to exploit next year, when its true “Project Mulberry” plans for the sector seem likely to come on stream.

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There’s mixed news for anyone worried that AI is about to wipe out a swathe of today’s well-paid IT jobs: according to a Microsoft Research study of real-world Copilot use, IT roles will be among the most affected by the technology.

What’s less clear is whether applying AI to IT will mean that specific roles disappear. It’s just as likely that AI will change the way IT people do their jobs rather than remove the need for them, the study suggested.

Being Microsoft’s inhouse chatbot, it makes sense that the authors of Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI would choose to study Copilot’s effects. Since it’s integrated into Microsoft 365, the Edge browser, and the Bing search engine, it is probably the most widely used AI in offices across the US and beyond.

The study analyzed 200,000 anonymized conversations between US users and the Bing Copilot during 2024, in combination with 100,000 interactions drawn from the Copilot user feedback database. From this, the team calculated how Copilot was being applied across a wide range of job roles, relating this to how effectively it performed specific tasks within these roles. 

As one might expect, computing roles scored highly for AI applicability. Put another way, AI can be used to do a lot of things in IT that are done by people today. However, there are important caveats. The study only looked at data for Copilot accessed through Bing search. Other LLMs might have had a much greater or lesser impact.

Similarly, analyzing occupations by breaking them down into individual work activities only gives a partial view of what a job entails. Many roles assume skills and actions not explicitly mentioned in a job description.

The issue of how Copilot is used is also worth underlining. It is a tool used predominantly by office workers, so tells us little about the effect of AI on coding, IT support, or cybersecurity, all of which could be hugely affected by more specialized tools.

What is not clear is whether automating a job role makes it obsolete. The researchers offer the interesting example of the advent of ATMs in the 1970s, which should have reduced the need for bank tellers. In fact, the number of bank tellers increased as banks opened more branches and started using tellers to perform more complex customer banking tasks beyond simple deposit processing.

“It is tempting to conclude that occupations that have high overlap with activities AI performs will be automated and thus experience job or wage loss, and that occupations with activities AI assists with will be augmented and raise wages,” said the researchers. “This would be a mistake, as our data do not include the downstream business impacts of new technology, which are very hard to predict and often counterintuitive.”

So, automation reduced the need for one function, thereby allowing employees to do something completely different. This serves as a reminder that job roles aren’t simply created and retired. Work, and the organizations employing people, constantly evolve to meet pressures other than simple cost calculations.

“This is not a new phenomenon: the majority of employment today is in occupations that arose in the last 100 years as a result of new technologies,” said the researchers. It’s possible that AI will turn out to be a similar story, just as cybersecurity, previously not even a blip in the job market, has come to the fore over recent years. Now the annual ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study routinely reports large skills gaps based on both the unfulfilled demand for people with the right skills and the number of skilled employees organizations should be hiring to meet the underlying need.

It’s been like this across many IT sectors for as long as anyone can remember. Arguably, then, AI won’t reduce demand so much as change the skills needed. The ability to automate job tasks using AI will not end up being the enemy of tech jobs but essential to their future.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his aggressive recruitment campaign for new AI venture Meta Superintelligence Labs. After luring in staff from OpenAI, he has now targeted Thinking Machines Lab — a startup led by Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former chief technology officer, Wired reports.

According to data provided to the publication, more than a dozen people have received offers from Meta — one of which is reportedly worth more than $1 billion dollars over several years. None of the employees at Thinking Machine Labs have yet to accept.

Several candidates are said to be hesitant despite promises of large sums, open source and an ambitious AI vision. Some are reportedly uninterested in Meta’s focus on consumer products; others express skepticism about lab director Alexandr Wang’s experience.

Meta has disputed the data, but according to Wired‘s sources, Zuckerberg has personally contacted potential recruits via Whatsapp, followed by interviews with top executives within the company.

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Experimental AI browsers are previewing new ways of browsing the internet and Microsoft this week joined the fray.

The company on Monday introduced “Copilot Mode,” an AI extension designed to automate web browsing and add context to internet content.

Users can switch on “Copilot Mode” in Edge for summarization, personalized results, and to compare results across tabs. A chatbot helps users interact with search results and go deeper into searches.

“With Copilot Mode on, you enable innovative AI features in Edge that enhance your browser,” said Microsoft in a blog post.

Earlier this month, Perplexity introduced the Comet browser, which also explores a new way to present web content. Meanwhile, ChatGPT creator OpenAI reportedly is developing its own browser.

Copilot Mode is built atop the Edge browser for Windows 11 and Mac. It’s an opt-in feature, and users can keep Copilot Mode off if they choose.

Microsoft highlighted multi-tab context as a top feature in Copilot Mode. The browsing assistant can analyze information from multiple tabs, saving users from clicks and having to toggle between tabs.

Edge also provides a text-based preview of YouTube video search results and lists the most relevant videos related to the user query.

That is just the start, Microsoft said. “Over time, we will continue to improve and add features to Copilot Mode,” the company wrote.

In Copilot Mode, users can get a more personalized browsing experience because user experiences and preferences are retained over time. For example, Copilot Mode will be able to go beyond multiple tabs and into browsing history to provide more contextual answers.

This is similar to Copilot’s “Memory” feature that Microsoft talked about at its 50th anniversary celebration event. Edge, for instance, will be able to retain and understand browsing traits.

Another upcoming feature called “Actions” will also complete tasks, such as booking hotel reservations based on location, past preferences, and travel habits.

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India is taking off in America, biting big chunks out of a smartphone market once served by Chinese manufacturing. This trend isn’t particularly surprising to any Apple watcher, but what might be of interest is the absolute speed with which the market is changing.

The latest data tells us that the number of smartphones sold in the US, but made in China, tumbled in the second quarter from 61% to 25%. Apple has been a key component in this transformation with its decision to import iPhones for the US market from India. Apple is the “main driver” of change, Canalys said. The total volume of Made in India smartphones increased 240% year-on-year, and that nation now accounts for 44% of smartphones imported into the US.

The shift to India

Senior Analyst Runar Bjørhovde noted: “Over 75% of iPhones sold in the US in Q2-25 were made-in-India. The number was around 20% in Q2-24, so the “shift to India” in US smartphone is mainly Apple-driven.”

US smartphone shipments increased 1% during the quarter, the analysts said, with India the big beneficiary as the supply chain rapidly reorientates itself for outside-China production. 

Speaking to Computerwold, Bjørhovde said: “Many vendors have built up their capacity in India to assemble for local supply over the last decade. This started with Chinese vendors, who all make most of their Indian supply locally.”

The analyst stressed that India is defined by fierce price competition, so local manufacturing has been a big need due to the import tariffs that came with the “make in India” initiative. 

A long time coming

In a statement, Sanyam Chaurasia, principal analyst at Canalys, said: “Apple has scaled up its production capacity in India over the last several years as a part of its ‘China Plus One’ strategy….”

It should also be noted that Apple this week confirmed plans to close its store at the troubled Parkland Mall in Dalian City in China on Aug. 9. The decision could reflect slowing retail sales in China, though the company does intend to open three additional stores in China over the coming year.

When it comes to opening up India as a manufacturing center, Apple might be in the spotlight, but it isn’t alone. Samsung and Motorola have also increased their share of US-targeted supplies from India, the analysts said, “although their shifts are significantly slower and smaller in scale than Apple’s.”

Like Apple, Motorola’s core manufacturing hub is in China, while Samsung relies mainly on Vietnam. Motorola is using Dixon Technologies as its Indian partner.

“More premium vendors started moving in post-pandemic — with Apple both wanting to invest into India (growing middle class means growing premium opportunity) and hedge for geopolitical risks,” Bjorhovde said.

Changing the patterns

The result is that many markets, including Europe, have received Indian-manufactured iPhones in the last three or four years.

This accelerated directly as a result of the Trump tariff war, which has seen “almost all” India-made smartphones allocated to the US. This also means most iPhones being sold in Europe are now made in China, rather than India.

The analysts also observed that while in Q1 Apple front-loaded US iPhone inventory with mass quantities of devices to avoid looming tariffs, patterns normalized in Q2, creating a statistical reduction in shipments. 

They also claim Samsung’s S25 Edge is not performing as well as Samsung had hoped, with speculation of production cuts to come. The S25 range, however, is doing well and Apple will likely monitor this to see what impact it has as it eyes demand for its own new devices later this year, they said. It’s hard to read too much into that detail, but I’d argue it suggests more focus on mid-range devices, even as Apple prepares to tempt higher end customers with next year’s iPhone Fold.

Meanwhile, Apple also prepares for a new future in manufacturing, announcing news of the Aug. 19 opening of its Advanced Manufacturing Academy; it’s designed to help American companies transition to advanced manufacturing by implementing artificial intelligence and smart manufacturing techniques.

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E-commerce giant Alibaba has unveiled Quark AI Glasses, the company’s first foray into the wearable technology market, CNBC reports. The glasses are powered by the company’s own AI model Qwen and digital assistant Quark.

They offer features such as hands-free calling, music streaming, real-time translation, meeting transcription, and a built-in camera. Users will also be able to navigate, compare prices on the Taobao e-commerce platform and pay with Alipay — services integrated through the Alibaba ecosystem.The launch means that Alibaba is now entering into competition with, among others, Meta (which has partnered with Ray-Ban) and Chinese Xiaomi, which also invested in AI glasses during the year.

Price and technical details have not yet been disclosed. The glasses are expected to be released in China before the end of the year.

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