On several occasions, Apple executives have been famously quoted as saying, in response to questions about matching the prices of cheap PC gear, that they didn’t know how to make junk. Of course, the critics will usually claim Apple is run by a bunch of greedy so-and-sos and all they want to do is extract […]

Yes, we all know that an iPad version 2.0 will be out early next year, probably in February or March. With the onslaught of supposed iPad killers from Samsung, HP, RIM and other companies, this comes as no surprise. Despite having trouble keeping up with demand, Apple moved the iPad into the top slot among […]

Apple’s stock took a bit of a hit a few weeks back when they disclosed, during their conference call with financial analysts, that profit margins would be down this quarter. All this despite the fact that the company was still tallying record sales and profits. Of course, low profit margins for Apple are extraordinarily high […]

As industry analysts look to the drop in sales of netbooks, there has been the assumption that the people who used to purchase those dreadful shrunken PCs are opting to buy iPads instead. That has been a growing meme in a number of tech columns. That is, until a recent survey from the NPD Group […]