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 […]

Implicit in the WWDC keynote this week is Apple’s effort to reduce reliance on Google for search, and to answer the complaints about the lack of features by those who have adopted the Android platform. The most blatant example of the former was putting Bing search in Spotlight. The trend had started with Siri, and it’s […]

This week’s WWDC was all about the software. None of the rumored hardware announcements have occurred. There is no new iMac, there is no new MacBook Pro with Retina display, and forget about the iWatch. Yet Apple has done something extremely important for the future of the iOS and OS X, which is to provide the tools […]