Industrial IoT meets the iPhone and iPad in new GE/Apple deal

Is a smartphone a thing? The question isn’t as silly as it may sound, at least in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the recent partnership between Apple and General Electric. According to Apple, the deal calls for the two companies to “deliver powerful industrial apps designed to bring predictive data and analytics from Predix, GE’s industrial IoT platform, to iPhone and iPad.” The focus is a new Predix SDK for iOS — due out later in October — designed to let developers build IoT apps that run on iPhones and iPads.