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    Apple’s Expansion: Some Smoke and Mirrors

    January 17th, 2018

    Since the GOP’s tax cut was passed last year, some companies have come out and, more or less, announced higher wages and special bonuses. It all seems to be developing nicely, regardless of your political leanings. But some of those announcements have fine print you might not appreciate. So AT&T announced last year that it […]


    The Strange Case of the Curious iPhone X Sales Numbers

    December 27th, 2017

    To put this all in perspective, consider the time when published reports indicated that demand for the iPhone 5 had collapsed towards the end of 2012. It was all based on claims of reduced component orders from Apple’s complicated supply chain, and the stock price fell appropriately. Except, when actual sales for the December 2012 […]


    Make Sense of This! An iPhone X Sales Alternate Reality

    December 19th, 2017

    For the longest time, you’ve read stories about why the iPhone X was fated to be unsuccessful. First and foremost, it was too expensive. How dare Apple charge $1,000 for a smartphone? Even when Samsung came out with the Galaxy Note 8, listing for about $50 less without counting discounts, it wasn’t such a big […]


    Newsletter Issue #941: A Brief Close Encounter with an iPhone X

    December 11th, 2017

    I’ve written about the iPhone X for months. It is not on my shopping list for a near-term purchase, because I have bills to pay. But I’ve always had extended access to iPhones and many iPads. So it was high time that I spend some face time with Apple’s latest and greatest. The occasion came […]