I suppose we need people who can consult the tea leaves, or Tarot cards, and somehow decide whether a company is doomed to fail, or will become a smashing success. When it comes to a specific product or service, such people will offer their predictions about how things are going. Some companies, such as the […]

So what market share do you expect the iPad to keep over the next five years? Despite being wrong on more than a few occasions, IDC suggests share will drop from an estimated 51% in 2012 to 43.5% as of 2017. Now that’s not bad for a single company, particularly when you compare the numbers […]

All right, folks, Apple doesn’t walk on water. Sure, nobody believes they do, except for certain members of the tech media and the financial community. Unfortunately, that meme has played out in the media in ways that appear to have hurt Apple’s stock price big time. Even though the price had risen considerably Wednesday ahead […]

So on Monday morning, Apple’s stock price took a drubbing because of a rumor, never officially confirmed by the company, that orders for the 4-inch LCDs used on the iPhone 5 were severely cut back for the current quarter. The alleged reason: Soft demand, meaning that the luster of the new iPhone had supposedly worn […]