Do you remember all that chatter before the iPhone 6 was launched last fall? Apple was having problems ramping up production, so they said, and supplies would be severely constrained when the units first went on sale. But you can go farther back over Apple’s history, particularly when a new form factor was about to […]

The lurid headlines couldn’t be more explicit: Apple is in deep trouble, total disarray, just a week ahead of what might be their biggest new product launch in years. So what went wrong? Was it really about a problem that put Apple in a bad place? First, there was that report of an iCloud fix that […]

It almost seems as if an Apple executive cannot sneeze without the media reporting that the company is therefore doomed. From the earliest days, Apple’s decision to go it alone has brought unending criticism from some quarters. I won’t dwell on the history at length, but I will cover the highlights. So the Mac was […]

It may be surprising if you haven’t kept up to date with the history of smartphones, but the original iPhone, with the 3.5-inch display, was considered quite large. Maybe too large to some, but other smartphones of 2007 usually came with physical keyboards to take up the rest of the space. Although not the first, […]