After quite a run, and ahead of a 7-to-1 stock split, Apple’s stock price had declined slightly before the WWDC keynote on Monday. I suppose this was to be expected. The event was presaged with optimism, skepticism and silly claims about what the company must do to survive. Some weeks back, for example, one online pundit who […]

In the days when Apple was really down in the dumps, facing near-immediate doom, Michael Dell, CEO of the company he founded, suggested that Apple’s stockholders should get their money back. The company should then be shut down. Of course, that was before Dell ran into its own problems with service and sales. And it […]