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 […]

We don’t know the official Apple Watch sales numbers for the second quarter, but there were broad hints during the quarterly conference call with financial analysts. So we heard that Apple sold more of them than the iPhone in its first nine weeks, or the iPad in the comparable period. But we do know that […]

After high definition TV took over, and most everyone who cared bought new sets, what could the TV makers due for an encore? If you think iPad sales suffer because people keep the ones they bought for several years, imagine the family TV. It’s not uncommon for sets to last 10 years or more before […]

I can’t imagine what the developers at Google were thinking when they came up with Glass. Were they depending on the images of Internet connected devices in sci-fi films as inspiration, in the belief that the public would embrace such a misbegotten gadget? Did they think that all it took was an endless public beta program […]