On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
To be released soon in the US is the App Store's volume purchasing program and businesses. With this program businesses in the US will be able to purchase Apps from the App store in bulk to distribute easily across their organization. The bulk purchasing program will also come with discounts enabling organizations to save money on their purchases. Available for all iPhone and iPad users and with the number of organizations providing their employees with iPhone and iPads this comes as no surprise that Apple is now attracting businesses and doing more to attract business customers. Volume purchasing of Apps Businesses can with the volume purchase program easily search for Apps, determine the quantity needed and easily complete the purchase with a corporate credit card or procurement card. To start off businesses need to first enroll in the program and create a volume purchasing account. Once created a business can then login and start purchasing Apps. Only paid Apps are available f...