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    CarPlay and Ceding Control of the Motor Vehicle Interface

    March 4th, 2014

    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 […]


    Apple’s First Quarter Financials: Still Not Good Enough

    January 28th, 2014

    So Apple generated record revenue and profits, not to mention record sales for the iPhone and the iPad, during the company’s fiscal first quarter. That’s what is generally considered to be the holiday quarter for 2013. But it wasn’t enough to impress Wall Street, which explains a sharp dip in the company’s stock price in […]


    The 2014 Tech Report: A Matter of Survival for Apple?

    January 1st, 2014

    I couldn’t help but feel that Apple wouldn’t have a nice time of it when 2013 arrived. First there were reports, never actually confirmed, of severe cutbacks in production of the iPhone 5, thus indicating that sales may not be quite what Apple hoped. But the false claims that the iPhone 5 was unsuccessful dated […]


    Newsletter Issue #727: Living with the “Worst” OS Upgrade Ever

    November 4th, 2013

    Or maybe not. But if you can believe a certain article in a large national newspaper, the iOS 7 upgrade has been an unmitigated disaster. Bugs and more bugs, and one survey concluded it was even worse than Windows Vista. On the other hand, isn’t Windows 8 worse than Vista? After all, customers are avoiding […]