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    The Things We Now Take for Granted

    November 11th, 2008

    Back in July, the iPhone 3G, newly-released, seemed to be a buggy mess to many of the early adopters. Apps crashed constantly, so they say, and people couldn’t sustain decent voice connections or speedy broadband access. You had to wonder whether Apple had lost its mojo in its drive to push new products out the […]


    The Apple Hardware Report: No More New Macs for 2008!

    November 4th, 2008

    You know, it’s a rare thing for Apple to tell you they aren’t going to release a new product. Usually it’s the standard “we don’t comment about unreleased products” phrase that doesn’t discourage journalists from asking anyway, in the forlorn hope that they’ll get a different response. But this time, Apple has a larger purpose […]


    The Good News Won’t Help Apple on Wall Street

    October 6th, 2008

    Apple has some news that, if confirmed, they can really crow about in their financial statements that are due for release later this month. But, at the end of the day, it probably won’t help their stock price. Their troubles got worse last week, when a bogus report about Steve Jobs suffering a severe heart […]


    Newsletter #461 Preview: The Folly of Blaming Apple for All Your Cell Phone Problems

    September 28th, 2008

    On the one hand, all the mobile phone carriers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to tell potential customers about their great products and service. Sometimes the ads are about the latest cool mobile device, but others talk about the superior network, with fewer dropped calls and more reception bars. We have one carrier, […]