Time
may be winding down on 2014, but Apple is keeping its foot on the gas,
releasing a new suite of iPhone and iPad business apps in conjunction
with IBM on Wednesday. With the apps, Apple is hoping to boost sales of
iPads, which have been dwindling over the past year, while gaining a
larger foothold in the enterprise market at the expense of rival
Microsoft. As for growth-challenged Big Blue, its partnership with
Cupertino is a way into mobile computing, where it’s largely been
absent.
