Now Apple has mostly fallen into a sort of predictable schedule for some products and services. So you know there will be a WWDC some time in June, where new versions of iOS and OS X will be demonstrated. There may be more products, such as the Swift developer language. By September, you’ll see new […]

Before I start, let me tell you that I still sometimes refer to Apple Watch as iWatch. I suppose old habits die hard, but it’s also true that the media assumed Apple hadn’t given up on the “i” prefix just yet, although it’s more than 16 years since the first iMac was introduced, so isn’t it […]

For some of you, these are trying times for Apple customers. While things should just work, or mostly just work after a bug fix or two, of late there appear to be serious defects that impact an unknown but possibly sizable number of customers that aren’t getting fixed. Before I go on, I have to […]

Apple had a real busy week, first with those stellar financials. Wall Street seriously undercounted iPhone sales, and sometimes Mac sales. Based on Apple’s figures, there are incredible numbers of iPhones being activated around the world. Indeed, it’s now claimed that Apple and Samsung are selling roughly the same number of smartphones. But the Samsung numbers […]