Implicit in the WWDC keynote this week is Apple’s effort to reduce reliance on Google for search, and to answer the complaints about the lack of features by those who have adopted the Android platform. The most blatant example of the former was putting Bing search in Spotlight. The trend had started with Siri, and it’s […]

I understand why some of my colleagues didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the latest legal skirmish between Apple and Samsung. It did get a lot of play in the mainstream media, but I understand why the rest of us have become very bored at this never-ending process. Now in case you’ve just tuned in, […]

In announcing the quarterly financials for the March 2014 quarter, Apple may have been in a lose-lose situation. Regardless of what the figures would show, the usual offenders in the media who dislike what the company is all about will complain. Now accompanying the news of the financial results, Apple played some more money games with […]

As most of you know, Microsoft is not nearly as flexible or successful as Apple in keeping secrets. Sure, news about an upcoming Apple gadget will usually leak from the supply chain, but software releases tend to get a higher level of protection from the teeming masses of tech journalists and financial analysts. Of course, […]