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    Newsletter Issue #714: Apple Inc. and the Journalism Freakout

    August 5th, 2013

    It would seem that it’s not really hard to accurately report about Apple. The sales numbers and financials are clearly posted on Apple’s site, and you can conveniently compare the numbers to previous quarters and previous years. You can even compare the financials to other companies, within the limits of their reporting. And there’s a […]


    The Strange Case of the Phantom Tablets

    August 2nd, 2013

    So the story goes that the iPad became number one out of the starting gate, but that Android tablets have been fast encroaching on Apple’s space. Of course, we have peculiar ways of demonstrating such a fact, if that’s what it is. So we have the curious case of Google citing a study that indicated […]


    Repeating Rather Than Researching Apple News

    February 19th, 2013

    The other day, I heard some cable news talking heads introducing a segment where they promised to explain what’s wrong with Apple. Among the problems: The alleged falloff in demand for the iPhone 5, perhaps suggesting that maybe Apple’s allure has diminished over time as the result of all that competition from Samsung and other […]


    Is What You See What You Really Get?

    November 30th, 2012

    In the old days of desktop publishing, the ideal personal computer display had a resolution of 72 dots per inch, which essentially meant that the page you saw on the screen was about the size of the physical version. Of course, color accuracy was another story entirely. Today, displays are far sharper, at the expense […]