All right, you know the score. Apple earns lots and lots of money selling gear that is generally regarded as premium priced. Sure, you can say that Apple’s prices are competitive when you compare, say, a MacBook Air with one of those UltraBooks from Dell or HP. But when it comes to those 7-inch tablets […]

Apple is very invested in California, witness the choice of Mavericks, a popular surfing location in that state, as the name of the tenth reference release of OS X. And the phrase, “Designed by Apple in California,” adorns the products. But designing is only a part of the equation. At one time, a lot of […]

So Apple’s stock price was boosted Thursday by the news that billionaire investor and firebrand Carl Icahn had boosted his holdings in the company by some 22%, and was pushing for a $150 billion stock buyback. Supposedly such a move, if it’s done as Icahn suggests, would boost Apple’s stock price to four-figure levels. Supposedly. […]

So we know that there are a lot of people out there who believe that Apple is toast, what with stock price problems, and with an apparently declining share of the smartphone market. The perception is that, if Apple isn’t number one, they are doomed to a decline into irrelevance. If not today, tomorrow, or […]