So at long last, Apple has unleashed CarPlay, the auto integration scheme formerly known as iOS in the car, and it appears most major car makers — and some not so major — have embraced it. For the well-heeled, you’ll soon be able to buy a new Ferrari with CarPlay. For the rest of us, you’ll probably find […]

I suppose Ford’s executives felt that a partnership with Microsoft to create a new user interface scheme for their vehicle’s infotainment systems seemed perfectly logical. After all, Windows was the number one personal computing platform on the planet — this was before the amazing growth of iOS and Android. Surely giving customers something built by the company […]

There’s no shortage of tech and financial pundits telling Apple what to do. They evidently assume that Tim Cook and his team don’t know anything, or, when Steve Jobs passed in 2011, everything that made the company great died with him. Unfortunately, that’s a meme that’s been played out in the media since then. That, […]

There’s a story this week suggesting that the non-appearance of an Apple branded TV set means the company is losing the battle to control your living room. This theory presupposes that other companies have solved the problem in innovative ways, and that nothing Apple can do would offer a better solution. Have they? I suppose […]