Over the years, so-called media pundits and financial analysts have suggested that Apple buy this company or that company. Usually, it’s a company that, independently, hasn’t demonstrated much in the way of financial success, but would seem to offer technology that Apple needs, or should need. One example is TiVO, which makes DVRs, but earns […]

There are Apple rumors and there are Apple rumors, and when two key players in the business media, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, report essentially the same thing, you might be inclined to assume it’s something to take very seriously. So when the stories emerged this week that, yes, Apple is seriously developing a […]

So a big fuss is being raised in the media over the fact that the iPhone 5 is not listed as the number one smartphone in the latest rankings from Consumer Reports. Based on product ratings of smartphones sold by the major U.S. carriers, the iPhone 5  is slipping. Some members of the media continue to […]

All right, you know there is no such thing as an “Apple Connected TV,” an iTV whatever you you want to call that so-far nonexistent Apple entry into the flat panel TV market. You know, as I do, that there have been plenty of rumors about such a product, but nothing from Apple to indicate […]