They say that, if you want a potentially important news story buried, release it on a Friday afternoon. By the time the details reach the mainstream press and popular online outlets, the workday is over, and potential readers are paying more attention to enjoying their weekends. Of course that assumes they aren’t actually working weekends. So […]

While a figure of 13 million sales for a single product would be a huge deal for most tech companies, to Apple, that number, tallied over the six-year life of the Apple TV, means it’s still just a hobby. True, more than half of those sales occurred in the past year, which means that it […]

This week, Apple announced some new apps for the Apple TV “hobby,” or area of interest, or “grand vision.” So you now have HBO Go, from Time Warner, WatchESPN, from Disney, Sky News, Chrunchyroll, an anime subscription service, and Qello, for concerts. All right, I’m not familiar with some of these services, but that’s just […]

Despite the drubbing Apple’s stock price has taken in recent months, the company remains one of the most profitable on the planet. But Apple didn’t get there paying attention to the critics. When they did listen on one occasion, they ended up almost going out of business. Consider the endless requests to license the Mac […]