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    Newsletter #456 Preview: The Apple Class Action Lawsuit Report

    August 24th, 2008

    One thing is certain: When you build a multibillion dollar multinational company, you can bet the sharks will be after you. Indeed, Apple’s SEC filings routinely list a number of lawsuits in which they’re involved. Some they’ve filed, and others have been filed against them for various real or imagined offenses. Some of these lawsuits […]


    The Plight of the Apple Early Adopter

    August 14th, 2008

    In light of my peculiar line of work, I am one of the first on the block — at least my block — to adopt a new computer-related gadget, and certainly I’m pretty quick to install an upgraded operating system or application. Of course, this sort of behavior entails certain compromises. One, of course, is […]


    Just Another iPhone 3G Report: A Million Customers Can’t Be Wrong!

    July 14th, 2008

    So I asked my son, Grayson, to guess how many iPhones Apple sold this past weekend. He started out at 100,000, not recalling that Apple sold over 300,000 units of the original version during its first gala weekend last year. It took him four guesses to arrive at the correct one million figure. I suppose […]


    iPhone 2.0: Direct From New Zealand!

    July 10th, 2008

    First of all, The Night Owl will never write a story about beta software that isn’t supposed to be distributed to the public. I won’t report on something acquired illegally either, because I don’t do that sort of thing. However, it is also true that the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 software were both released […]