When Walt Disney died at the “tender age” of 65 in 1966, the executives who took over his company were in a quandary. What to do next? What would Walt have done anyway? But the quest to look back also hurt the company’s direction for years. Critical decisions weren’t made, at least until they realized […]

It almost seems as if a growing number of my columns are very much about comparing the present with the past, or just remembering something I did or observed years ago and how it relates to a current event. So I read an article about the iPod’s 15th birthday. But this is something Apple won’t make […]

So Apple has gotten mixed press for the decision to ditch the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. What’s most interesting is that this development was revealed early on in the run up to rumors about the upgraded products. Sometimes I wonder if Apple deliberately leaked the news to the media to gauge public […]

People outside of Apple frequently criticize the company and what it’s doing. That’s perfectly acceptable. Whatever Apple does is ripe for the picking, even if the brickbats are totally unfair. That’s to be expected. Some of those criticisms come from people that gain credibility because of a past association with Apple. A key example is the […]