Square Dashboard app helps you keep track of sales data

If you’re a business owner, you’re constantly on the move and rushing around fighting fires and helping grow your business. Keeping up with sales doesn’t have to be too difficult of a task with the new Square Dashboard app. The app will show you real-time sales data directly on your iPhone and let you know what’s been selling well and if there’s a need to extend your hours.

The app shows your sales summaries and the average sale amounts you make each day. It also shows you sales comparisons so you could check how you did compared to a specific period of time (e.g. last month’s sales). And you can even see your best-selling categories and items.

Strong iPhone, iPad and Mac sales fuel Apple's $49 billion revenue with $10.7 billion in profit

Apple just announced their most recent earnings behind iPhone, iPad and Mac sales.  The company earned a revenue of $49 billion and $10.7 billion in profit for its fiscal quarter ending June 27th. These results compare to revenue of $37.4 billion and net profit of $7.7 billion, or $1.28 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. 

Breaking down its products but omitting Apple Watch sales figures, Apple attributes its steady success to the iPhone: 47 million units, the iPad and the Mac at 4.7 million units. Apple Watch, Apple TV and iPods collectively earned the company US $2.6 billion.

“We had an amazing quarter, with iPhone revenue up 59 percent over last year, strong sales of Mac, all-time record revenue from services, driven by the App Store, and a great start for Apple Watch,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The excitement for Apple Music has been incredible, and we’re looking forward to releasing iOS 9, OS X El Capitan and watchOS 2 to customers in the fall.”

Q3 earnings for Apple have been traditionally lower since it is the period leading up to a the yearly iPhone and iPad launches in the Fall as well as generally a quiet time for product and software launches.

Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan beta 4 now out for developers

Apple made the Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitann beta 4 available to developers today. Featuring experience and performance gains, El Capitan is an incremental update to Yosemite, which was a major overhaul of various OS X features, user interface elements and functionality. Other features include Split View, improved Mission Control and a more intuitive Spotlight search among others. El Capitan lands this Fall as a free upgrade to existing Mac users.

Apple releases iOS 9 beta 4 and watchOS 2 beta 4 to developers

Apple today released iOS 9 beta 4 and watchOS 2 beta 4 to developers. The new watchOS introduces new features and watchfaces, a nightstand mode plus added functionality. iOS 9 beta introduces a variety of new apps including News, a new and improved Notes app and multitasking features and picture-in-picture capabilites on iPad Air 2 devices. Apple's beta releases seem to be on track to the iOS 9 launch this Fall.