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    Newsletter Issue #1023: Apple and the App Store Conundrum

    October 25th, 2021

    While Apple is often credited with being the first tech company to offer an in-house app store to buy software for its mobile gear, that’s not at all true. Other companies had done it before, though not as seamlessly. So I recall working on a client’s Palm Pilot probably before the year 2000. They wanted […]


    About Beating Apple to the Punch

    December 11th, 2014

    There’s something perfectly boring about hearing a statement that some company has beaten Apple to the punch by releasing a certain product or feature. But it’s not as if Apple is first to market with most of their new gear. So the Mac wasn’t the first personal computer with a graphical user interface, and the […]


    Ahead of the iPhone 6 Launch: The Amazon Fire Sale

    September 9th, 2014

    The critics suggested that Amazon had it all wrong pricing the Fire Phone at $199 with atwo-year contract, not to mention having it available at just one carrier — AT&T. In the past, Amazon, famous for generating cash flow but little or no profit, has sold hardware at roughly cost. The hope was to generate […]


    Of New CEOs, Apple and HP

    May 28th, 2014

    Apple CEO Tim Cook and HP CEO Meg Whitman have one thing in common. Both took their positions in the late summer of 2011. The similarities pretty much end there. Cook had previous experience as interim CEO of Apple when Steve Jobs took several sick leaves. During that time, Apple achieved record sales and profits, […]