It’s a curious world. On the one hand, Samsung has been sued a number of times by Apple for alleged theft of intellectual property. Samsung was charged with slavishly copying Apple’s exclusive designs, mostly the iPhone and various product features, and they fought back claiming Apple had, in fact, illegally used some of their intellectual […]

I am old enough to remember a very tired joke. I bend my arm and say, “doctor, it hurts when I do this.” The doctor says, “Don’t do that!” As I said tired. It actually dates back to the early 20th century, part of a famous sketch from the Smith and Dale comedy duo that was later “borrowed” by other […]

The first logical question one considers when evaluating the Apple Watch is not Apple’s new naming convention, which gives up on the “i” prefix. After all, there is the Apple TV. The key question is: who is going to buy them? Therein lines the difficulty in predicting the potential for massive sales of the Apple Watch. You […]

As I watched a TV ad for the Microsoft Surface 3 tablet/note-book, intended to compete with the MacBook Air, I was troubled by the lame attempt to draw important differences between the two. While an Apple spot will focus on lifestyle and the things you can accomplish with a Mac, an iPhone or an iPad, […]