As Windows 7 receives surprisingly favorable reviews from the tech media, I have to wonder why there are so few critical comments about Microsoft’s ongoing claims of innovative products that are actually imitative. Take the infamous ribbon that has graced recent versions of Office for Windows and the Mac. That it’s a context-sensitive toolbar — […]

The PC industry is in a tizzy in the wake of the unexpected success of the iPad. Where alleged tech industry analysts were talking of tablet sales of as little as five million for all of 2010, Apple moved 3.27 million units during the first three months. In each the next two quarters, sales may […]

You just know that some members of the media are waiting for Apple to fail big time. Just the other day, I read a piece suggesting that the iPad had begun to cannibalize sales of new Macs. How did they know? Well, the sales growth rate wasn’t quite as high as they might have expected. […]

It’s fair to say that the market doesn’t give a new product much time before it’s declared a success or failure. Consider the Power Macintosh G4 Cube, for example, which was released in 2000. Reminiscent of the fabled NeXTcube, the Mac version didn’t survive a year until Steve Jobs — reluctantly I suspect — pulled […]