Even though Android has a gigantic share of the mobile handset market, Google clearly needs Apple to generate income. How gigantic? I’m talking about roughly 85%, with iOS occupying roughly 15%. This varies a few points one way or the other from quarter to quarter. What this means is that Google has agreed to pay […]

With iPad sales on the rise — at least for a single quarter — I wonder about Apple’s plans for its future. I wonder about Apple’s plans to penetrate different markets to expand its reach. Mostly, I wonder if Apple plans any variations on the current design to give it more potential. Now the current […]

The news might have come as a shot across the bow. In the last quarter, notebooks featuring Google’s Chrome OS — or Chromebooks — outsold Macs, but not everywhere. But this is certainly being touted by Google fans as evidence that the Mac is on the way out, that Chromebooks are taking over. But it’s […]

There has been no end of speculation as to why iPad sales, once soaring, are down slightly this year. True, Apple has recorded tens of millions of sales of the first truly successful tablet computer, but are the glory days over? Aside from the reasons why this might be so, it’s unfortunate that the industry […]