Contrary to what the Apple critics say over and over again, a lot of the things Apple is doing are innovative. From Swift, a new programming language, to the HealthKit and HomeKit features in iOS 8, there are huge improvements in Apple’s software capabilities. Even better, there are rich opportunities for independent developers to create […]

Hardly a day passes where I don’t find yet another undiscovered treasure in OS X Yosemite. At a time when you wondered how Apple could possibly come up with another 200 new features or enhancements, it seems they’ve gone way beyond that. So just his week, Computerworld blogger Jonny Evans reported on 18 items that consist […]

When The New York Times claimed, in that controversial hit piece on Tim Cook, that he took over after the death of Steve Jobs, I realized the writers were out of touch. And that was before reading much else. It’s not that they haven’t covered Apple for years, but they could hardly fail to notice […]

After quite a run, and ahead of a 7-to-1 stock split, Apple’s stock price had declined slightly before the WWDC keynote on Monday. I suppose this was to be expected. The event was presaged with optimism, skepticism and silly claims about what the company must do to survive. Some weeks back, for example, one online pundit who […]