So when someone has a new gadget that, superficially at least, competes with something Apple produces, it suddenly breeds a major competitive war, or at least that’s what some supposed journalists believe. The product becomes an “iPhone killer,” or an “iPad killer,” or some other killer product. Yet another approach taken by the media is to […]

When it comes to dollars and cents (or whatever currency is used in your country), Apple Inc. is in really good shape. Record sales and profits continue to be reported, and the company has over $200 billion in the bank. Nothing troubling about that. But the stock tanked recently in very large part because of […]

We don’t know the official Apple Watch sales numbers for the second quarter, but there were broad hints during the quarterly conference call with financial analysts. So we heard that Apple sold more of them than the iPhone in its first nine weeks, or the iPad in the comparable period. But we do know that […]

If you can believe what some industry analysts have been saying, Apple should now be playing third fiddle in the smartphone wars. Android and Windows Phone would be ahead of iOS. Apple would, I suppose, be destined to fall back into niche status. Have you looked at the Windows Phone and BlackBerry market shares lately? […]