I suppose it didn’t come as much of a surprise when the news came down Monday morning that Google CEO Eric Schmidt had surrendered his position on Apple’s Board of Directors. After all, Google has been encroaching more and more on Apple territory in terms of mobile phones, operating systems and, of course browsers. So […]

As I write this, Apple’s stock price is soaring, and that’s a surprise. Usually, after they release record-breaking financials, Wall Street seems to react negatively. No, I’m not about to explain the workings of the financial community, and I doubt anyone can with any meaningful level of accuracy. The biggest difference this time out is […]

It was implicit in all the hoopla about an iPhone, or whatever it’ll be called if Apple releases a mobile phone: Today’s cell phones, by and large, do not meet the needs of customers. Sure you can make and receive phone calls, and sometimes you can even get decent audio quality, although that seems to […]