So it’s over. Apple’s attempts to appeal a $450 million court judgment for antitrust behavior got turned back by the U.S. Supreme Court. By refusing to consider findings that Apple, along with several publishers, were engaged in a scheme to fix e-book prices, thus resulting in higher prices to customers, it let the lower court ruling […]

The typical criticisms about Apple over the years have fallen into a narrow range. It depends on the era, but back in the 1990s it was about being a niche PC maker. Indeed, Michael Dell, founder of Dell, was once famously quoted as saying that Apple should return the money to the investors and close […]

For a number of years, it’s been the hope of some of Apple’s most severe critics for the company to fail. Not just to fail to grow sales, but to be thrust into irrelevance or go out of business. Of course, that nearly happened in 1997, shortly after Steve Jobs became iCEO, when Apple’s cash would only fund […]

So it was widely expected that the fourth generation Apple TV, which arrived months later than some originally expected, would represent Apple’s major foray into conquering the living room. At least that was the expectation, but what you expect and what you get are often very different. Before the Apple TV was launched in September, some […]