Typical of Apple’s iOS releases, users of iPhones and iPads upgrade in droves, with hundreds of millions running the upgrade within just a few months. So according to data from the App Store that’s available to developers, as of February 20, Apple reports that 79% of these devices have been upgraded to iOS 10 so far. In […]

Every year or so, Google promises to make the Android update system more reliable. As it is, when an OS update is posted, there is no guarantee your Android smartphone will ever receive it. Sure, if you own a Nexus device, it should arrive, eventually, but otherwise you may be left waiting and waiting. Suppose […]

Instead of the usual silly argument about how Android has mauled Apple into irrelevance by having a larger market share, a recent piece at ZDNet actually discusses the real problem with Google’s platform. No, it’s not the fact that lots of mobile handset makers release cheap junk running Android. It’s more about the open source nature […]

Normally, when Tim Cook introduces an Apple media event, there are lots and lots of numbers. That’s Tim’s expertise, and you expect he’s working his Numbers spreadsheets overtime to select the results that are most favorable to Apple. That sort of happened during Apple’s Thursday media event, where new iPads and a 5K Retina iMac were […]