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    Grasping for Straws about an Apple Car

    March 20th, 2015

    After the initial flurry of reports about Apple setting up a project to create a car, the talk has sort of died down. This is quite understandable. Even if true, such a beast won’t appear for several years, unless Apple pulls off a miracle in setting up a manufacturing and dealer network. Regardless, there’s always […]


    About Things That Apple Probably Won’t Make

    February 19th, 2015

    This is a story that still has traction, despite the very questionable concept. The Wall Street Journal publishes a report about an alleged Apple project, code-named “Titan,” to build an electric car. Or maybe an electric van. Or maybe an electric motorcycle? How are we to know what they are really up to even if you […]


    HD Radio: Salvation for U.S. Broadcast Radio?

    December 5th, 2013

    So is the conventional wisdom correct? Is broadcast radio truly dead, yesterday’s news and all that? Now this ages me, but when I grew up, FM radio was the luxury you added to a car only if you checked off the appropriate box on the option sheet. FM meant clean sound, relatively free of hiss, […]


    Isn’t it Time to End Patent Lawsuit Insanity?

    August 6th, 2013

    So Samsung was estimated to be worth a billion dollars less in the wake of a Presidential veto in their latest patent skirmish with Apple. The news came down over the weekend, when U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced that President Obama had made a rare decision to veto an ITC ban against some models […]