There’s a general perception that the Apple Watch hasn’t exactly taken off in a big way, at least not yet. I’ve never seen anyone wearing one. Or at least it wasn’t noticeable, not that I’ve gone out of my way to look. In any case, IDC, part of the International Data Group that used to […]

When Apple moved to large display iPhones, they routinely kept an older four-inch model in stock. In large part, this was to offer an alternative for people who couldn’t afford the flagship versions, although it’s also true that some people never liked the larger handsets. Regardless, Apple evidently didn’t take the smaller form factor seriously. It […]

Once upon a time, Apple’s iTunes had a sidebar with colorful icons, the better to identify different categories and playlists. But some people at Apple decided we must all be color blind, so the icons were changed to shades of gray. The Finder inherited the same questionable simplicity. And then the iTunes sidebar went away; well […]

It almost seemed as if Apple went with the crowd when the iPhone grew up. So with the 4.7-inch iPhone 6s and the 5.5-inch iPhone 6s Plus, and their predecessors last year, it was abundantly clear that Apple was answering the most significant competitive threat head-on. Samsung had made hay of building big smartphones, particularly the ones […]