Do you remember October 23, 2001? As the nation was still grieving over the 9/11 terrorist attack, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was busy changing the world in his own way. That’s when the original $399 iPod was demonstrated at a media event. It arrived with the promise of 1,000 songs in your pocket. The iPod […]

One of the more interesting results in Apple’s March quarter financials was not iPhone sales. I’ll get to that soon. Instead, it was the growth of Mac sales. Despite the fact that only one new model was refreshed in recent months — the MacBook Pro — sales increased slightly from 4.03 million to 4.2 million. But total revenue […]

In recent columns, I’ve covered at length the attempts by the tech media to present the just-released Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone as not only superior to the iPhone 7 but more advanced than the unannounced iPhone 8. The latter is obviously an absurd comparison. But what bothers me most is that the Galaxy S8’s known flaws […]

If you look at the media meme these days, the just-released Samsung Galaxy S8 is the bee’s knees. Apple’s unannounced successor to the iPhone 7, which may include a high-end iPhone 8, must be an inferior product. Apple has lost its taste for innovation, and the executives are sitting back and drinking Frappuccinos or some other […]