On June 2, 2014, iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks will become yesterday’s news. That’s when Apple is expected to unveil the next versions of both at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, so let the speculation begin in earnest. It’s not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with the existing versions of Apple’s free […]

According to tests run by Ars Technica, the 2010 iPhone 4 at last delivers adequate performance with the iOS 7.1 update. It wasn’t so good with the original iOS 7 release. That’s no mean achievement when you consider that, in the smartphone world, a product that’s over three years old is positively ancient. Consider it […]

So there’s a report out today from one tech site with a headline proclaiming that Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that new product categories will be entered this year. Imagine that! But what most concerns me about that headline is that this is absolutely nothing new. Cook has been saying the very same thing […]

As some tech and financial pundits exhort Apple to sell cheaper versions of the iPhone, it does appear that demand for the mobile handsets may be slipping around the world. Well, at least if you look at the latest financials for ARM Holdings, which licenses chips to most of the handset makers, including Apple and […]