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    Apple’s Financials: The Tea Leaves Report

    April 28th, 2016

    So we know that Apple’s numbers for the March quarter were, in large part, worse than so-called financial analysts predict. Apple’s stock price was down more than 6% as I wrote this column, and that’s to be expected. It’s an unfortunate fact that, even though Apple remains a highly profitable company, only a single quarter’s […]


    The Next iPhone: What Can Apple Do Next?

    April 15th, 2016

    The conventional wisdom has it that Apple will continue to follow a tick-tock refresh scheme with the iPhone. What this means is that, one year, there will be a fairly significant case redesign, plus the usual run of internal hardware enhancements. The following year, it’s essentially the same case with revised innards. But even if the […]


    Apple’s New Gear: Predicting Failure

    March 23rd, 2016

    There must be a special place for people who write misleading, or completely wrong, fear-mongering pieces about Apple. Surely there are lots of real things about which to complain, but evidently they aren’t doing their research. It’s too easy to repeat old tropes. Very easy. So almost every time Apple releases something new, shoes will drop […]


    The Things They Allow to Be Published

    April 21st, 2015

    This is not an argument against freedom of the press. It’s not my intention to say that people shouldn’t be allowed to express their point of view within the normal common sense constraints, such as not defaming someone. What this means is that some go to wacky extremes in order to write something about Apple. […]